Earthshot

[antelopevalley]

So does anyone know anything about Earthshot finalists? William and Kate went to Boston because of Earthshot, but all aI have read about is what Kate and William have done in Boston and what Kate is wearing. Why are the press not covering what Earthshot is actually about?

Because it's a nonsense Vanity project...?

i think they are announced at the event.

The finalists are on the website. But I have not read one article about them.
earthshotprize.org/winners-finalists/

Here you go, from 4 November: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63507781

And in this one William talks about some of last year's winners.

Thanks for the article about some of this year's finalists.
Sad there are more articles about what Kate wore so far in Boston.

The winners this year seem like excellent ideas. I'm looking forward to watching the show tomorrow to find out more about them. The programme last year was really interesting.

Oh it would be interesting to see coverage on the ideas and inventions.

There's a good piece on the BBC website. The projects look interesting.

Didn’t they do a programme last year that n the telly after the event? It wasn’t live iirc.
so expect a programme in bbc 1 in January maybe?
one show had Clara the dj there reporting so presumably they were filming too.

There was a programme last year that was deathly boring. I am interested in environmental issues and protest about them. But I did not watch beyond the first programme. The ratings were high for the first show and then plummeted, so I was not the only one who thought this.

But if the aim is to give publicity to those shortlisted, then their stories should be everywhere. They are not.

The aim is more to attempt to keep the royals and others relevant, and I have no doubt someone, somewhere is making money.

Because it was not about the finalists or the environment or the award. It was about fixing the American problem the RF thinks they've got. To test the waters and see how they were received, to win back hearts or something to that effect - said the Telegraph.

Do you know the finalists didn't even attend the event?! Will and Kate did manage to fly David Beckham and Ellie Goulding in though. If they were so concerned about carbon footprint, why didn't Will and Kate stay in the UK and get filmed on home turf like the others?

@tatala The finalists did not even attend the event!!!!
I am shocked at that. So not even a pretence that this was not about PR.

All about PR, absolutely no question about that. Shocked that more people are not calling it out.

They did that last year too - it actually makes more sense so that all the finalists are on an equal footing in terms of coverage if some don’t want to travel

As in from a TV production perspective for the edited programme which goes out on Sunday - it looks better with each finalist being surrounded by their whole team of usually 10-20 people - they can all then be part of the celebration- it was quite moving last year.

Then at a later date they bring all the key people from all 15 finalists together - not just the winners for a big networking event with venture capitalists and policy makers etc so that all of them can work on scaling their projects. Last year they took them to COP in Glasgow.

Earthshot is a great project supporting some amazing environemental technologies and solutions from around the world. You don’t have to like or care about the RF to appreciate that.

My favourite finalist was the city of Amsterdam circular economy project.

I watched last years winners and found it moving and hopeful to see that out there amazing people are actually trying to do something. Being innovative and positive. That's something to celebrate as far as I'm concerned.I've always thought Charles was ahead and often derided with his concerns for nature and the environment. And yes he has faults,lives a privileged life etc as does William. But I prefer to think well something has to be done re the planet and climate change.So hope Earthshot proves to be a success.

I agree. It’s obviously not a perfect solution to climate change problems, but it’s good to see projects that are actually trying to do something, rather than just moaning. And any publicity for it has to be a good thing.

Lot of excitement in Australia re the Aboriginal women's group which won.

No Tokyo

Its real and worthy going by this one award I read about

“The Queensland Indigenous Women Rangers Network has been awarded a £1m ($1.8m) Earthshot prize for its work on protecting the Great Barrier Reef. The network was awarded the Revive Our Oceans category of the prizes, which was launched by Prince William and David Attenborough in 2020.23 hours ago”

From The Guardian.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is in crisis. There’s Australian govt funding going towards saving the reef. I’ve never seen it in person but it’s beautiful in images. (THe parts that haven’t turned grey and lifeless looking at least).

The Earthshot awards was essentially taping for a reality show. Excerpts from the Boston Globe..

The audience seemed puzzled. The invite to Friday’s Earthshot Prize ceremony promised a “glittering affair” with performances by Billie Eilish and Annie Lennox. But really what they’d been summoned to was the taping of a TV show starring the Prince and Princess of Wales.

The royal couple, wrapping up a three-day visit to Boston, were on hand to award more than $5 million to people with ideas to save the planet, or at least delay its immolation. And as the cameras rolled, the crowd was there to cheer on demand. Enthusiastically.

Taking photos with friends on the appropriately green carpet, Jasmine Rigueur, a member of the Student Government Association at Bunker Hill Community College, said she doesn’t know why she was invited, but she accepted immediately.
“Honestly, I’m here to see Billie Eilish,” Rigueur said, unaware then that Eilish would only be appearing on a screen. “It’s just a plus to have the prince and princess here, too.”

Boston Fire Commissioner Paul Burke was in uniform, but he said he wasn’t working. As a member of Mayor Michelle Wu’s cabinet, he’d been invited to attend and was excited to see Lennox perform.

“That’s who I’m looking forward to, not the royalty,” he said. “My wife’s killing me because I didn’t get a second ticket.”

Or maybe not. As the crowd walked out of MGM Music Hall, a phalanx of enormous SUVs were idling on Lansdowne Street, emitting who-knows-how-much CO2 while they waited to whisk the royal couple away.

BBC1 5.30pm Sunday 4th December
The Earth Shot Prize Ceremony.

Today, you can learn all about this year's projects. Hugely exciting projects happening around the world. I like that this isn't just more talk - these projects are happening now.

Wow, this is shocking. Earthshot board members went out of their way to complain to Netflix. Surely if they cared so much about the finalists they should have been flown into the event.

They managed to fly in a green carpet, the Wales', David Beckham and Ellie Goulding. Oh well.