Everything about the Moncler Fall/Winter 2012 fashion show in Central Park celebrated sophisticated winter wonderland: The trees surrounding Wollman Rink were bathed in bright, festive colors, a gospel choir belted out New York, New York, to start the show and professional ice skaters painted the ice in wisps and swirls of red, white, blue and gray. The light dusting of snow and biting cold helped set the scene and the hot chocolate and spiked apple cider helped keep the warmth in, if just for a few extra minutes.

Moncler certainly knows how to stage a spectacle:

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Thanks to Carol Emert of fog melt for her article about REALiTREE! It was great to discuss the project with her, and we’re glad she called attention to an awesome initiative that served as powerful inspiration for us, Tidy Street in Brighton, England where residents were given home electricity monitors to help reduce their energy use. A local artist painted the unfolding infographic on the street to track their progress and participants ended up cutting their energy bills an average of 15%. Read More

We’ve long-admired the work of PSFK and founder/president Piers Fawkes, and we’re glad to see that the media is recognizing them too! Check out CNN’s article on the consulting firm here.

Today, TriplePundit also acknowledged PSFK’s collaboration with The Climate Reality Project and its Gaming for Good challenge. Stark Design was proud to join in this effort; see PSFK’s coverage of our Realitree concept here.

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REALiTREE is a digital representation of our local environment and the role we’re playing in sustaining its well-being. It is a game played by different groups in many places. Individuals, teams, communities, cities and even countries compete against their counterparts via Twitter, Facebook and through other digital social tools.

A REALiTREE is like a huge Tamagotchi which thousands of people care for. And that’s not all.

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Today, we were honored to be invited to NYC’s SoHo House to present our concept “REALiTREE” to the folks at PSFK, the Climate Reality Project, Alex Bogusky, Aaron Dignan, other participants and assembled guests. It was amazing to meet Al Gore and hear his praise for REALiTREE.

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Does the camera make the photographer? CNN seems to think so, recently firing over 50 of its staff of photojournalists and editors, brilliantly rationalizing that quality cameras are now cheaper, smaller, and widely accessible to amateurs, who will take pictures for free. Well, then, David Burnett step aside..I’m gonna find out what kind of camera you have, get it, and take your job! And while I’m at it I’ll buy the latest and greatest medical equipment and call myself a surgeon! Who would like to be my first nose-job? I’ll do it for free!

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