Site5 and mokugift covered in The Web Host Industry Review

Web hosting provider Site5 (www.site5.com) announced on Wednesday it has partnered with mokugift (www.mokugift.com) to plant a tree for every new hosting account (www.mokugift.com/ecopage/site5webhosting). Read the rest at Web Host Industry Review

Mokugift featured on Yahoo Shine

Yahoo's Shine site featured mokugift. This was all made possible by the great team over at DailyGrommet that searches for unique and creative gifts. Each day they feature something new and exciting.

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Justin.tv and mokugift partner to fight climate change

The wonderful folks at Justin.tv have partnered for a special campaign that enables Justin.tv producers and members to plant trees and inspire others to plant trees.

The Justin.tv campaign widget will display the total trees planted via the campaign widgets. The total will also display ancillary tree plantings that are inspired by friends that see the actions of Justin.tv producers and members.

You can get your Justin.tv mokugift widget here and promote tree planting on your Justin.tv channel or profile page. http://www.mokugift.com/justintv

Mokugift is on the front page of Yahoo.com

San Francisco, CA September 29, 2009 - Launching the week after Global Climate Week (Sept 20th – 26th), mokugift’s GreenLifestyle daily quiz and green fact-sharing application on Yahoo!’s homepage empowers up to 118 million* individuals to make every week Global Climate Week. By taking three daily quiz questions, users can learn new environmental facts every day in just a few minutes. With a few more clicks of the mouse, they can challenge a few friends to a quiz and pleasantly surprise them with new green knowledge.

For busy users, with a single click of the mouse, they can broadcast a daily environmental fact to friends that use Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger 10 through Yahoo! Updates. Anyone can add Mokugift’s GreenLifestyle app to his or her Yahoo! homepage exploring the My Favorites application gallery on Yahoo.com.

Mokugift’s GreenLifestyle is a break from the gloom and doom of economic and environmental news. GreenLifestyle gives everyone the opportunity to learn about the environmental choices that they are empowered to make in their daily lives. Sharing this knowledge is a positive experience that they can enjoy every day.

Organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Global Climate Week 2009 (theme: ‘Seal The Deal') focused attention on raising awareness of the upcoming crucial climate policy meeting in Copenhagen, in December 2009. Through its “Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign,” UNEP is appealing to global citizens to achieve the goal of planting seven billion trees—roughly one tree for every living person on the planet—by the end of 2009.

Users of mokugift’s GreenLifestyle earn points by answering quiz questions correctly and by challenging friends to quizzes. The top 1,000 users of each month get to plant a real tree for free via mokugift. Points are reset to zero each month, so everyone has a chance to plant a tree for free and do their part in the Billion Tree Campaign.

Mokugift’s GreenLifestyle gives the all users the opportunity plant a real tree as a gift for a friend for $1 apiece. Mokugift trees are planted by farmers practicing environmentally sustainable forestry and agricultural methods in tropical zones in Central America, Africa and Asia. The plantings not only restock, with native trees, existing forests that have been depleted, but also contribute to more diverse, productive and economically sustainable land-use systems. An average tropical tree absorbs 50 pounds of carbon dioxide annually over its lifetime, providing enough clean oxygen for two people.

Yahoo.com is one of the most popular homepages in the US and the world, with approximately 118 million monthly visitors (comScore, August 2009). “Yahoo! gives us an amazing opportunity to make environmental education a fun and easy daily activity for 118 million individuals.” says mokugift co-founder Krates Ng. “Yahoo! is a great partner in our mission to empower more people to participate in the UNEP Billion Tree Campaign”.

An official partner of UNEP, mokugift not only empowers people to participate in theBillion Tree Campaign, it also provides the tools to inspire others to participate. Tree planting is an easy first step to a more environmentally responsible lifestyle, and Mokugift enables anyone concerned about climate change—even those lacking access to planting space—to make a difference. Mokugift.com fosters global environmental solidarity by letting everyone see how their actions inspire their friends, and friends of friends, to take part in the Billion Tree Campaign.

Anyone receiving a mokugift tree receives their own mokugift.com web page, a virtual island that serves as a platform for encouraging others to plant trees themselves or “gift” trees to others. Active promoters of tree planting via mokugift receive acknowledgement for their achievement on the site and are rewarded with free tree planting. The planting of real mokugift trees is administered by award-winning nonprofit agroforestry organizations such as Trees For The Future and Sustainable Harvest International.

Mokugift invites everyone to try out GreenLifestyle on Yahoo! and start their day with positivity and empowerment to make a difference in the fight against climate change.

*comScore, August,2009

About UNEP’s Billion Tree Campaign
Launched in November 2006 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), with the objective of encouraging the planting of at least one billion trees worldwide each year, “Plant for the Planet: The Billion Tree Campaign” is now recognized as one of the UN’s most successful environmental campaigns. To date, UNEP has tracked the planting of more than three billion trees in 166 countries. Now in its second stage, the campaign, which stresses the power of partnerships, has set a new goal of seven billion trees planted before the end of 2009—roughly one tree for every living person on the planet. Every tree counts, and UNEP counts every tree.

For more information on the UNEP’s billion tree campaign, please visithttp://www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign/

About mokugift
A social venture focused on customer experience and tangible, positive benefit to the environment and society, Mokugift makes it easy and rewarding to plant trees, for $1 apiece, through online “gifting.” Giving a mokugift tree is similar to sending an e-card, and recipients can proudly display their trees online at Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo!, and 50 other popular Web sites.

An official partner of the United Nations Environment Programme's Billion Tree Campaign, mokugift collaborates with award-winning nonprofit agroforestry organizations such as Trees For The Future and Sustainable Harvest International to plant trees in twelve countries: Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Burundi, Senegal, Zambia, India, the Philippines and Haiti. Using environmentally sustainable methods, farmers in these countries plant mokugift trees to restock existing forests and enable more diverse, productive and economically sustainable land-use systems.

For more information on mokugift, please visit http://www.mokugift.com

Green Software Unconference Aug 19th.

Connect. Create. Act.

Register, and in addition to the collaboration and innovation benefits you will receive, we'll plant a tree for each Early Bird registrant via MokuGift, a United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Partner.

**Limited number of seats available so sign up today!**

Who will attend:
-Software Companies
-Entrepreneurs
-Venture Capitalists
-Software Developers
-Marketers and Business Strategists
-Engineers
-Sustainability Professionals

Technologies and Verticals:
Mobile, Web 2.0/3.0, Clean Tech, Water, Virtualization, Smart Grid, Smart Metering, SAAS, Smart IT, Gadgets, Server Technology, Building, Government, Manufacturing, Design & User Experience etc.

Do you have a Topic you'd like to Lead? Tell us during your Eventbrite Registration.

What is an Unconference:
An Unconference is a participant-driven conference centered around a theme or purpose and is a forum for creativity, engineering, and innovation.

Why Green AND Software?:
A January Fast Company article deemed the Sustainability Systems Developer one of the Ten Best Green Jobs for the next decade.
The article states: "The green economy needs a cadre of specialized software developers and engineers who design, build, and maintain the networks of sensors and stochastic modeling that underpin wind farms, smart energy grids, congestion pricing and other systems substituting intelligence for natural resources. Coders with experience using large scale enterprise resource planning have an edge here, as well as developers familiar with open source and web 2.0 applications."

Software examples include:

• IBM - sensors & software to manage H2O
• Lil Green Patch
• Go Green Mobile Carbon Tracking
• Bon Appetit Management Co's Low Carbon Diet Website
• Clear Standards (SAP) Carbon Accounting Software
• Numerous Green Blogs/Websites/Social Media/Virtual Communities

Sponsors:
Conference sponsorships are available offering you the opportunity to gain premium presence in front of conference attendees. To discuss an advertising, sponsorship or custom marketing program that is right for you, email us. greensoftwareunconference at gmail dot com
Platinum: $2,000
Gold: $1,000
Silver: $500

Register Now:
**We'll plant a tree for each Early Bird registrant via MokuGift, a United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Partner. Thank you to Eventbrite for helping to Sponsor this.

Early Registration by August 10 - $100
After August 10 - $150
**Limited number of seats available so sign up today!**

Rideshare Partner:

Are you looking for someone to share the trip with? We have partnered with ZoomPool to help folks find carpool options to this event. Reduce carbon emissions while you meet like-minded new friends. Click on the ZoomPool image and search for a trip partner.

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Facebook and Twitter:
Join Facebook LinkedIn and Twitter, and you'll receive up-to-the-minute information about the Green Software Unconference!

August 19, 2009 Agenda:
8:30am - Breakfast and Registration
9:00am - Welcome and Introductions
9:45am - Unconference Session Proposals
10:30am - 11:15 - Session One
11:30-12:30 - Lunch
1:00 - 1:45 - Session Two
2:00 - 2:45 - Session Three
3:00 - 3:45 - Session Four
4:00 - 4:45 - Summary & Raffle
4:45 - 5:45 - Happy Hour Networking

(Happy Hour Sponsored by Holme Grown Brand)
(Raffle giveaways include: organic wine, computer books, trees -

Thank you Holme Grown Brand, O'Reilly, MokuGift, and Mozilla, Smart Grid Library)

Digital Summer. Aug 19th. Come after the Green Unconference

DIGITAL SUMMER combines three passions: Photography, Technology, and Fashion.

On August 19^th Ubergizmo and Girls in Tech are partnering up to create DIGITAL SUMMER in Temple, San Francisco, one of the few sustainable nightclubs in the world.

We are bringing the most international, professional, and glamorous crowd of San Francisco for socializing, professional photo-shoot, technology, green cause, and eco-fashion.

PROGRAM:

-Test-drive HP's coolest products

- Try out the latest Intel-based devices

*8-11 PM Studio Photo-Shoot by Eye-Fi (Feel like a Model!)

*8.30-10 PM Atelier Emmanuel, fine boutique hair salon & day spa will spoil you!

*8.30-10 PM STAR Make-Up Artists Bianca Lucescu and Candy Walker will be hosting Eye-Lash Bar!

*9-9.30 pm Photo-Show by Khan Kanga and Damien Miller, and Eco-Fashion by Edun and Edun Live

*8-10 pm test-drive HP's coolest products

In addition, our partner Mokugift, the official United Nations will be planting a tree with every glass of champagne consumed at the event.

MUSIC: guest DJ Mrs.Blythe

ADMISSION:

$1 with RSVP on the event invitation page (plants a tree)

$ 5 at the door w/o RSVP

PLEASE NOTE:

DRESS CODE—Chic and Elegant

SPONSORS:

Platinum:HP

Silver: Intel

Bronze: Edun Live

MEDIA PARTNERS:

Ubergizmo, GadgetSpin, TechieDiva, TechMamas, Ponzarelli.com, Snap Summit, SGN

Executive Producer-Liana Burtsava, Co-Producer-Eliane Fiolet (Ubergizmo)

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mokugift 'One Wish For Our Planet' campaign is starting to pick up

Mokugift's One Wish For Our Plant videos are starting to pick up. Here is the link love:
Catherine Grison
Leslie O'Donnell
Posterous (enviro press releases)
Hip Hop Press Releases
Go Green Tube (green videos)
David Woo on San Francisco Examiner
Brian Riddle (green builder and environmentalist on twitter)
Underground Homes (environmental homes)

Thanks to you all! Follow Friday coming this week.

To check out our videos, go to mokugift's youtube page