May 17, 2010 – The World Technology Network (WTN), a global business and science think tank that honors and supports outstanding innovation, has nominated Birthright Earth for its 2010 World Technology Award for Environment -­‐ part of the World Technology Awards initiative held in association with TIME magazine, Science magazine/AAAS, among others.

Birthright Earth is nominated as it is recognized as doing “innovative work of great likely long-­‐term significance.” The awards will be judged by elected WTN Fellows (winners and finalists in previous Awards cycles, such as Youtube, the Office of the Mayor of Seoul, Korea, the Mayo Clinic, and Rocky Mountain Institute). Winners will be announced from the stage at the Time & Life Building on the second night of the World Technology Summit & Awards being held June 24th and 25th 2010.

About The World Technology Network Awards

The World Technology Awards have been presented annually since 2000 to outstanding individuals and
organizations recognized as doing innovative work of the greatest likely long-­‐term significance. The awards reward innovation in 20 sectors, including education, energy, and the environment. Awards are announced each year in a gala ceremony at the close of the annual World Technology Summit. The World Technology Summit is a global gathering of the WTN membership as well as other delegates.

About The World Technology Network

The WTN brings key players together -­‐ from the world’s leading corporations to the world’s newest start-­‐ups – helping to make things happen sooner and better than they otherwise might have. Drawing membership from over 60 countries, the WTN is a global virtual think-­‐tank, comprised of approximately 1000 members in a variety of fields including journalism, academia, and finance. Members are mostly short-­‐listed Nominees and/or Winners from previous years.

About Birthright Earth

Birthright Earth, the New York based, youth run non-­‐profit, believes it the birthright of every individual or generation to be able to enjoy, experience, and take care of the beauties of nature in their time. The organization has grown around the conviction that a generation that destroys such beauties erodes the birthright not only of itself, but also of future generations.

Birthright Earth’s innovative response is to teach youth about the environment through firsthand experience. Birthright Earth selects applicants for 10-­‐day, fully funded trips through the Amazon Rainforest that include hiking, canoeing, field research and lectures by resident biologists. Our aim is to lead in the development of an active movement of young adults, passionate and dedicated to the conservation of crucial ecosystems, and actively working in support of steps to mitigate global warming and other man-­‐induced environmental hazards. In collaboration with WTN, we can better see it, understand it, love it, and save it.

Editor’s note:

Birthright Earth invites all interested parties to visit our website www.birthrightearth.com, or
email Kenton Atta-­‐Krah, Director of Marketing and Communications at kenton@birthrightearth.com for more information. For more on WTN, visit http://www.wtn.net/summit2010/index.html

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