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Asian Festival DC 2010, See You There!

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

This Saturday and Sunday, July 31 and August 1, we’ll have a booth at the 7th Annual Asian Festival located in Reston, VA

The event celebrates the people and cultures of Asia and draws from 60,000 to 70,000 attendees each year. This year’s highlight country is The Philippines. So all you Pinoys out there come represent!  We’ll have shirts for several Asian countries in our booth which is located near the Tennis Park (home to the concerts and Thai Tennis Tournament).  For more details on all the great events and exhibitors at the festival, check out the website: http://www.asianfestivaldc.com/

See you there and look for our banner!

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HerCampus USA T-Shirt Winners – Why They Love Their Country

Monday, July 12th, 2010

KissMyCountry sponsored a 4th of July giveaway on HerCampus – the ‘collegiette’s guide to life!’.  With three USA t-shirts to give away, HerCampus asked collegiettes to write about why they love the USA and then selected the top 3 submissions.  Here are the winning entries.  We hope each winner enjoys their t-shirt as much as we’ve enjoyed your entries.  Great job and thank you!

Sara B:  Love For An Adopted Country and An Adoptive Family
I love my country because it gives me so many opportunities I may not have had.  I was adopted from South America as a child, and I cannot even begin to imagine my life had I not been adopted into such a loving and caring family.  They support me in everything I try to accomplish, and are there for me whenever I need them.  I love my family, my country, and the abilities both give me to do what I love.

Cassie S: Love for the Freedom to Be Who You Want to Be
I love my country because it is the only place where you can truly be an individual.  Uniqueness is celebrated, not punished.  As a person trying to free herself from the pressures she feels, it is great knowing that I can be who I want to be, feel and express myself how I want, and life the life I dream to.

Chrissy C: Love for the Freedom to Speak Freely
I love my country for many reasons, but one of the most important reasons is freedom of speech.  When I hear of censoring or oppression in other countries, I can’t help but be thankful I can speak my mind freely without worrying.  As a journalist, this is huge and I am so happy to have this freedom.

HerCampus is an online magazine for college women with national content on Style, Health, Love, DormLife, Career and World and individual content from 42 US colleges and universities.  HerCampus is written entirely by the nation’s top college journalists, currently has over 200 writers contributing articles, and was started by three Harvard undergraduates – Stephanie Kaplan ’10, Windsor Hanger ’10, and Annie Wang ’11 during the Fall of 2009.  Take a look at this exciting site – we know you’ll find something of interest!

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Follow the World Cup with 3 Great Live Blogs

Friday, June 11th, 2010

All the world’s a stage, and that stage’s name is South Africa.

For 4 weeks beginning Friday, the world’s attention focuses on the daily soccer matches in South Africa for the World Cup. A brief escape from the oil spill, economic woes, and earthquake rebuilding. All the visitors to S. Africa have at least one thing in common, the love for “the beautiful game” as they call it. And for just a little while the arguments are about goals and referee’s calls, not economic and political problems. There’s nothing quite like being in a country that is watching their team play in a World Cup match. When something happens, the entire country cries out in unison. It’s amazing.

Unfortunately, a lot of us can’t sit in front of a TV, and a lot of companies are blocking streaming video since this event is just crushing worldwide productivity! So we’ve highlighted 3 great LiveBlogs that are posting near play-by-blay coverage on the games:

1. The Wall Street Journal did an excellent job live-blogging the Uruguay vs. France match today.

2. The Guardian UK’s got it covered.

3. Reuters has more good photos than most others.

Go enjoy the games, take some 90 minute breaks from your seething anger at BP and toast the world.  I’ll be doing just that on Saturday afternoon and cheering on our boys as they play England. And yeah, I’ll be wearing my KMC shirt. And $5 from the sale of our My Country USA shirt will go to the Gulf Restoration Network.

Help us help them, and go USA!

I Love My Country! USA Organic T-shirt

$25.00

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BP and the US Government – Getting Along Like Oil and Water

Monday, May 24th, 2010

We’re starting to realize we’re really in trouble here.  This is not going to be the usual ‘oh no, let’s get that fixed and now we just have the hearings to worry about’ scenario.  It’s a Pandora’s Box, a genie out of the bottle – a fix that still needs more fixing, news that the Gulf Stream could become the Oil Stream, and a US government that’s decided to play ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’ big time.  A liability cap that goes from $75 million to $10 billion (or maybe $80 billion?) and an MMS that might dissolve and turn into two agencies and a revenue collection group.  Poof.  This just turned from a sprint into a marathon, BP, with no end in sight.  Forget the Exxon Valdez, think Bikini Islands.

BP, in case you didn’t notice you are on your own.  We’re in the middle of the blame game right now with plenty to go around.  Politicians are using words like ‘cover up’ and ‘un-American’.  Nobody is going to own up to any part of this, nobody wants to appear sympathetic in any way.  Your private business friends?  Gone.  Deepwater Horizon’s in major protection mode, other oil companies are touting the super safe procedures they use (yeah sure), and we’re all wondering whether we’ll ever be able to go to a beach on the East Coast or the Gulf of Mexico again.  So, not a good time. 

Truthfully, we’re all partly to blame.  We didn’t cause this, companies failed us and our government failed us, but we’re a part of the chain.  These companies took a risk and they’re paying the price, but they aren’t extracting oil in deepwater just for the challenge.  They’ve got customers, and their customers have customers, and eventually we’re the customer.  This is a hard wake up call, but with a clear message nonetheless. We don’t have another planet to move to. We’ve got to fix this as best we can, and we’ve got to encourage a different way to live.  We’ve got to seek and support solutions that are sustainable, renewable and safe.  And that save the places we love, not destroy them or put them at risk.

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The Bloom (Energy) of a New Era

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

About 10 years ago, I forwarded a website to a friend of mine from grade school via our Yahoo! email addresses (back when Yahoo! was #1) and said “Check out this website. It’s called ‘Google’ and it’s really great. You can find things so easily.” My friend remembers that message to this day. None of us could know that Google would become such an important part of our lives. I got that same feeling as I sent emails to friends and family about Bloom Energy. Their press conference on Wednesday gave me chills as the leaders of some of the largest companies in the world (Google, Wal-Mart, Coke, eBay, Cox, etc) who collectively employ over 4 million people worldwide and have over $500 billion in revenues every year, took turns showering praise on this secretly developed fuel cell technology that seems almost too good to be true. While we’re still some years away from having Bloom Servers in our homes, the thought of this technology helping to solve many of our energy and climate change problems is exciting to say the least.

Being the largest polluters, the benefits to the US, China, and India are obvious. But you have to consider how the many developing and underdeveloped countries will benefit too. Rather than go through their own “industrial revolutions,” burning coal and trees for power, etc, Bloom is presenting a technology that bypasses all that waste and carbon release. That will mean better living conditions, cleaner environments and healthier people.

One of our central themes is to celebrate the companies that are creating new technologies and businesses that will save the planet. If (and that’s a very big “if”) Bloom can reach its goals, we might look back on this moment 5 or 10 years from now and think, “wow, that was when it all changed.” My fingers are crossed and I hope yours are too!

Here is a good explanation of how the Bloom Server works.

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Welcome to KissMyCountry.com

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Welcome to KissMyCountry.com.  We love the world and we want to save it!

On our blog we discuss all the great things the world has to offer and the people that are doing their part to save it for the future.  It could be individuals with a single goal, businesses with new ideas, or celebrities with strong voices.  The future of our world depends on each of us and our mission is to educate and act towards that future.  So, welcome and join us.

Learn more about us and our mission on our About page.

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