Radically reconfigured for the 21st century in 2006, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) is a multimedia festival that explores the theme of sustainability and the environment within a large global conversation that embraces a range of political, economic, social, and aesthetic issues, including labour, war, health, disease, intellectual property, software, remix culture, economics, archives, HIV/AIDS, women’s rights, and human rights.

Only work that can be exhibited online can be considered for this exhibit. Media artists working in offline formats should submit work to FLEFF under other calls. Deadline is 1 November 2007. There are specific instructions with this contest, so visit the site to learn all the details.

At Right: 2006 Contest Winner Mehmet Ozgur.

The 14th Annual Popular Photography Photo Contest gives photographers the opportunity to have their works recognized in the January 2008 issue of Popular Photography & Imaging, the largest photo magazine in the world, as well as on PopPhoto.com. The winning photographers will also win prizes from Panasonic and Circuit City.

The competition is open to work produced from September 2006-September 2007. All submitted work should be of reproduction quality. Deadline is 14 September 2007. Visit the site for more information.

At Right: Winner Catalina Estrada’s piece.

MAiLmeART.com was created by Darren Di Lieto, the founder and editor of LCSV4, after toying with the idea of doing a collaborative project that everyone involved in gets something out of. MAiLmeART is a little project designed to test your skills, make you some money and give you the chance to have a bit of fun.

Once a month a guest judge will pick a favorite submission and a random number. The random number will correspond to one of the prizes; the creator of the chosen submission will win the random prize (I’m adding this site to the “nonstop design competition” list in the middle column at bottom).

In 18-24 months MAiLmeART will be holding an exhibition in London (venue to be confirmed). The show will include your submissions, which will be on sale at the exhibition. The creators of items that sell at the show will receive 70% of the price their creations sell for, less the landlord’s cut. The project will carry on and continue after the show with possibly another show the year after and the year after that. Hopefully the first show will be the first of many. To find out what you need to do to submit your work, visit the site.

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New Thinking on Urban Transportation: entrants are asked to imagine ways of moving goods and people safely and efficiently while reducing the impact on the environment. The goal is healthful, pleasurable urban transit that reduces automobile traffic in favor of less-polluting modes.

This is one in a series of competitions sponsored by RE:VISION. Register by 1 August, and final entry date is 15 Aug 2007. Visit the site to learn more.

backup is a media-festival for young filmmakers, artists and designers who define and reflect the boundaries of film and its diverse segments in a creative preoccupation of different ways of production and expression.

Prizes for the best entries will be awarded by an independent jury of filmmakers, TV executives, producers, designers and media theorists. To qualify for entry into the competition, all works must be submitted in a common video format, must have been completed after the 1st of January 2006 and must be no longer than 15 min. in length.

Deadline is 25 August 2007. Visit the site to to learn more.

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At Right: Dymaxion Bathroom (1940) by Buckminster Fuller.

Each year a distinguished jury will award a single $100,000 prize to support the development and implementation of a solution that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems in the shortest possible time while enhancing the Earth’s ecological integrity.

The Buckminster Fuller Challenge seeks submissions of design science solutions within a broad range of human endeavor that exemplify the trimtab principle. Trimtabs demonstrate how small amounts of energy and resources precisely applied at the right time and place can produce maximum advantageous change.

Entries for The Buckminster Fuller Challenge will be accepted via the Web-based platform or by post beginning 4 September and ending 30 October 2007. To receive an entry form announcement and to learn more about this competition, go to the site and sign up on the mailing list. This is an international contest for individuals or teams comprised of individuals who are over age 18.

Via: The Way We Live