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Here’s a reminder from the National Geographic:

First Place Winner of the 2011 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest:
Star Gazing at Crater Lake, Photo by Ben Canales

The 24th annual National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest runs from April 5 to June 28, with an entry fee of $15. For procrastinators, the deadline is extended to July 11 with an increase of $10 per entry. Digital entries are accepted online in any of these four categories: Travel Portraits; Outdoor Scenes; Sense of Place; and Spontaneous Moments.

Prizes for a winning photo include: a National Geographic Galápagos Photography Expedition; a Santa Fe Workshop; a National Geographic Traveler Seminar; and $200 gift certificates to B&H Photo.

Last year nearly 13,000 images were submitted from all over the world. The pictures captured an assortment of the places, wildlife, and people that make traveling memorable, evoking a sense of delight, discovery—or both. See the winning photos from 2011.

In an era of Photoshop and ubiquitous imaging software, it is interesting to join in a photo contest. Goodluck!

Here’s to mark my calendar to attend this event.

Sustainable communities: collaborating, planning, delivering – a C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group public event

Dear Rowena,

The City of Melbourne, in conjunction with the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, invites you into the minds of the world’s leading thinkers on sustainability. The sharpest minds on cities and sustainability will be in Melbourne during March for a workshop on sustainable cities and this Melbourne Conversations event is your chance to hear what they are saying.

Sustainable communities: collaborating, planning, delivering has been developed in conjunction with the C40 workshop and will allow you to hear about leading-edge approaches to creating and maintaining sustainable communities.

Come along and give us your comments and opinions from the audience ‘hot seat’ or get involved in the conversation online through our Facebook group or on Twitter.

Date: Thursday 29 March 2012 Time: 6pm to 7.30pm (doors open at 5.30pm) Venue: BMW Edge Federation Square, corner of Flinders and Swanston streets, Melbourne

Free entry – no bookings

For more information visit the City of Melbourne What’s On website.

We would like to thank all of our contributing partners for their involvement in this event: Federation Square, C40 Cities, Future Leaders, Lend Lease Development, the Australian Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Green Building Council of Australia, ICLEI, Places Victoria and World Green Building Council.

Professor Jan Gehl – Gehl Architects: Copenhagen, Denmark Professor Billie Giles-Corti – Director, McCaughey Centre: VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne Ms Li Lixin – Deputy Chief of Air Pollution Control Division, Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, Beijing, China Ms Romilly Madew – Chief Executive, Green Building Council of Australia, Sydney Ms Melanie Nutter – Director San Francisco Environment Department, USA Moderator: Peter Mares, Fellow, Cities Program, Grattan Institute, Melbourne