We are all devastated in the tragedy that has struck our fellow brothers and sisters of Haiti. Limitè will be organizing a care package to help the victims of the earthquake disaster. We are only accepting clothing items and can goods. If you wish to donate, email us at info@freshmediainc.com or send items to the address below. We will be sending out the care package by next Friday Jan. 22nd. We thank you in advance for all your contributions.
Attn: Limitè Magazine / Haiti Care Package
1803 Riverside Drive, Suite 2C
New York, NY 10034
P.S. UPS will be sending package that are 50lbs or less to Haiti for free.
You’ve seen the HP commercial, and listened to the voices of Kenna, Lupe and Alexandra Cousteau talk about their climb on Mt. Kilimanjaro… but honestly I don’t feel like a 30 sec spot sends the complete message its intended on. Along with the aforementioned three, comes Summit on The Summit, an initiative started by by Kenna which now includes Emile Hirsch, Jessica Biel, Lupe Fiasco, Isabel Lucas, Santigold as well as many of the world’s brightest minds and major cultural influencers.
The mission behind this climb is to raise awareness of the global clean water crisis that plagues not just third-world countries but the water stream right here in America. The climb began yesterday, January 7th, after it’s announcement in September 2009 the project begun raising awareness and funds on www.summitonthesummit.com for The Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and Water For People’s Playpump Technology. All funds raised by SUMMIT ON THE SUMMIT: Kilimanjaro will be managed and distributed through the United Nations Foundation, the project’s charitable advisors. (more…)
Richard Branson always finds some way to spend his wealth, from his music empire to traveling around in hot air balloons to the revealing of Virgin Galatic’s Spaceship Two, the world’s first commercial spacecraft on Monday. The design will begin sending space tourists in the air from Spaceport America in New Mexico after testing. The spaceport is being built as we speak and was designed by architect Norman foster. The spacecraft was designed by Burt Rutan and features a large wing span with two separate cabins on either side of the SS2. The vehicle is major step forward since the SS1’s first successful flights in 2004. The vehicle will take up to 6 passengers and 2 pilots for sub-orbital flights in space. The SS2 relies on the WK2 mother ship to launch it into orbit, firing its rocket motor at 50,000 feet in the air. the SS2 and the WK2 are also both designed to be as environmentally friendly as possible, using ultra efficient engines and the SS2 will eventually be outfitted with a hybrid rocket motor, which is currently under development. flights will hopefully begin in 2010 if all goes according to plan.
The night filmmaker Ian Cheney moves into his apartment in New York, he pulls his grandfatherʼs old telescope onto a Brooklyn rooftop to survey the night sky. But bathed in its glow of orange streetlights, the City that Never Sleeps only has five stars to see. What begins as a disappointing autumn evening becomes a journey to answer a simple question: do we need the dark? From Mauna Kea to Death Valley to Paris, THE CITY DARK is the definitive new film about light pollution and the disappearing dark.
The City Dark follows Ian Cheney to the darkest (and brightest) corners of the earth on a quest to understand the ecological, astronomical, and medical consequences of light pollution. In our predominantly urban planet, astronomers say they can no longer see the asteroids that threaten to hit us due to the sky glowing from the lights of cities. Turtles hatchlings migrate toward city skylines instead of the ocean’s moonlit glow, and breast cancer rates. The City Dark is a unprecedented portraits of earth after dusk, and a meditation on our relationship to the stars as we know it.
Most of us step over it or toss it in the trash, but to Justin Gignac New York City garbage is art. Gignac began selling garbage in 2001 after a co-worker challenged the importance of package design. To prove that person wrong, Gignac set out to find something that no one in their right mind would by or package. Looking around the Times Square, garbage was the perfect answer. Eight years later, over 1,200 NYC Garbage cubes have been sold, and now reside in more than 25 countries around the world. (more…)
Created and directed by the award-winning filmmakers Mark Benjamin and Marc Levin, BRICK CITY, is a five-part documentary series that captures the daily drama of a community striving to become a better, safer, stronger place to live. Against great odds, Newark’s citizens and its Mayor, Cory A. Booker, fight to raise the city out of nearly a half century of violence, poverty and corruption.
David Lynch is a true renaissance man - an American film director, screenwriter, producer, painter, cartoonist, composer, video artist, performance artist, and weatherman. I find David to be a complete genius and creative ambassador. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), and Mulholland Drive(2001). In June 2009, Lynch launched Interview Project, a Q&A journey across America where they met hundreds of people and interviewed the “everyday” American and have them tell their stories.
Jess was their first interview. They found him sitting on the side of the road during the middle of the day. Jess told them he was waiting for his trailer to be repaired so that he could go live alone in the desert. Although hesitant at first, Jess agreed to spare a bit of his time and talk to David and his crew. His rugged delivery and appearance soon gave way to a gentle man who was just looking for some peace in his life. After leaving Jess, David and crew headed further east into Arizona to look for their next interview.
Malibu is releasing a limited-edition bottle in celebration of its partnership with Reef Check, a non-profit dedicated to monitoring, protecting and rehabilitating coral reefs. The brightly colored bottle reflects the energy of the partnership, the colors of the Caribbean and the vibrancy of beach and reef life.
Available nationwide, this limited-edition bottle will help raise awareness of Reef Check’s mission, and will kick off the first-ever Malibu Beach Internship. Malibu is offering 10 budding environmentalists a chance to get a PhD in SPF by monitoring coral reef health in Thailand, the Maldives or the Philippines. Passionate individuals of legal drinking age may apply by visiting www.malibu-rum.com/reefcheck. (more…)
Without a doubt, the issues with resources for gasoline and it’s cost has caused many of us additional stress, financial hesitation and also the time to think of more ways to commute around town. Beatgasoline.com, an intiative by Nike and Youth Noises are taking things in their own hands and helping to stress the need to eliminate the CO2 by the power of sport.
At Beatgasoline.com you can download free stuff, watch exclusive Nike content and upload videos or pictures showing how you would beat gasoline. You can also view other submissions and vote on the weekly Global Giving Card winners. Which, if you submit a video or picture, could be you. Other grand prizes include some killer stuff from Nike 6.0.
Nike has exceeded its CO2 emissions reduction target through the World Wildlife Fund’s Climate Savers program. They eliminated F-gases across all Nike products following 14 years of research and development in Nike Air cushioning system. And they defined their environmental footprint for their direct operations and their contract factories. By FY11 Nike expects to make all its footwear meet or exceed standards set in its sustainability index; make the Nike brand facilities climate neutral; reduce footwear manufacturing waste by 17%; and reduce packaging and point-of-purchase manufacturing waste by 30%. All Nike, Inc. facilities are targeted to be climate neutral by 2015.
