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We're less than two weeks from the April 18th Dow Live Earth Run for Water and hope you can join us! We're exciting to announce the following live performances:

Chicago

Multi-platinum selling recording artist Collective Soul and special guest, the GRAMMY-winning, multi-platinum Rock & Roll Hall of Fame "Soul Man" Sam Moore will perform live at the Live Earth Run for Water at Montrose Harbor on April 18th!
Register at http://liveearth.org/chicago.
For more info visit http://chicago.liveearthevents.net/.

Hong Kong

Hins Cheung, award-winning cantopop sensation, will perform live at the event taking place at Wetland Park Road, in Hong Kong on April 18, 2010!
Register at http://liveearth.org/en/dow-live-earth-run-for-water-hong-kong.
For more info visit http://www.dowliveearth.rfwhk.com.

Mexico City

Kany Garcia, the Puerto Rican artist and pop sensation, twice winner of the Latin GRAMMY Awards, will perform live on the esplanade of the National Auditorium in Mexico City during the Live Earth Run for Water in Mexico City.
Register at http://www.trotime.com/registro_extra1.asp?idcarrera=58.
For more info visit http://mexico.liveearthevents.net/.

Brazil

Musician Jorge Ben Jor will perform live in the Praca da Apoteose near the finish line of the Rio de Janeiro Live Earth Run for Water!
Register at http://www.ativo.com/Eventos/MostraEvento.aspx?idEvento=2544.
For more info on Rio and Sao Paulo events visit www.run4water.com.br.

Contest - Live Earth's Fundraise for Water Giveaway

There is less that 1 week left to register for our contest! liveearth.org/contest - It ends April 8th!

How can you enter?

• Make a donation to Global Water Challenge between March 1st-April 8th 2010 at https://donate.globalwaterchallenge.org/page/contribute/liveearth1. Donate any amount to Global Water Challenge and you're automatically entered. ($25 buys one classroom of children clean water for a year, keeping them healthy and in school.)
• Set up your own personal fundraising page between now and April 8th 2010 at http://liveearth.org/fundraise. Set up a page to raise money from friends and family and you're automatically entered. You will go through a process of entering your information and will have the opportunity to ask your friends and family to donate. Set a fundraising goal and bring clean water to children who need it. ($250 can provide a school with clean water for two years!)

You must be a resident of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia and 18 years or older to enter. You must make a donation or set up a fundraising page between March 1st- April 8th 2010 to be eligible to win! The winner will be notified on or around April 9, 2010.

For full contest rules, click here.
Click here to enter! Good luck!

Can you solve the problem of disposable coffee cups?

Betacup has just launched an online contest to engage creative thinkers in solving the disposable cup waste problem through open collaboration and encouraging fresh ideas. Anyone can submit an idea on how to reduce paper cup consumption and promote adoption of environmentally-friendly alternatives. Ideas will be open to the public for discussion, with submissions through June 15.

Starbucks has provided $20,000 in cash prizes to be awarded for the most innovative ideas!

Click here for more info.

No Live Earth event in your town? Host your own!

If there are no Live Earth events in your area then click here to register your own! Registering an event with Friends of Live Earth is a great way to involve your friends, family, school, or community in global, environmental action to help solve the global water crisis. After registering, you'll gain access to a package of background materials, event guidelines, and suggestions for how to host a green event.

You can help solve the global water crisis by participating in one of 100+ Live Earth Run for Water events on April 18th.
Sign up now at http://liveearth.org/run.

Run/walk registration is officially open for the following cities (click on city name to get to registration page):

You can help solve the world water crisis by participating in one of 100+ Dow Live Earth Run for Water events on April 18th.

Sign up now at http://liveearth.org/run.

Run/walk registration is now officially open for the following cities (click on city name to get to registration page):

NORTH AMERICA - San Diego, Los Angeles, Fontana, Westlake Village, CA, Lawndale, CA, Mariposa, CA, Dinuba, CA, San Mateo, Antioch, CA, McMinnville, OR, Seattle, Ellensburg, WA, Vancouver, Kelowna, BC, Kamloops, BC, Creede, CO, Alamosa, CO, Minneapolis, Houston, Oklahoma City, Boonville, MO, Chicago, Bristol, WI, Milwaukee, Canton, MI, Midland, MI, Mt. Pleasant, MI, Toronto, Cincinnati, Louisville, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, Bar Harbor, ME, Martha's Vineyard, Marlborough, MA, New York City, East Hampton, Norristown, PA, Washington, D.C., Rocky Mount, NC, Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Charleston, SC, Atlanta, Grambling, LA, Stennis Space Center, MS, Tampa, Orlando, Mexico City, Monterrey, Guadalajara, Guayas Sonora

CENTRAL AMERICA / CARIBBEAN / SOUTH AMERICA - Panama City, Santo Domingo, Tortola, Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua, Bermuda, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Cascavel, Valencia, Colombia, Ecuador, Talara, Peru, Lima, Bolivia, Chile, Dean Funes, AR, San Luis, AR, Paraguay

UK / EUROPE - London, Copenhagen, Oslo, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Berlin, Munich, Brienz, Switzerland, Le Lignon, Yverdon-les-Bains, Tarragona, Carolei, Arezzo, Vienna, Sarajevo, Tirana, Mali Zvornik, Zagreb

MIDDLE EAST / ASIA / AUSTRALIA / NZ - Istanbul, Bodrum, Jerusalem, Karachi, Katmandu, New Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Mumbai, Mongolia, Chonqing, China, Hong Kong, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, Manila, Davao City, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, Jakarta, Bali, Melbourne, Auckland

AFRICA - Cape Town, Cairo, Addis Ababa, Morocco, Benin, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Cabo Verde, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria, Angola, Eritrea, Uganda, Burundi, Mauritius, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, Cameroon, Botswana

If an event is not yet listed for a city near you, we invite you to host a Friends of Live Earth event, or check back at liveearth.org/run and sign up to find out when more cities are announced.

Thanks and be sure to visit us soon!

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