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Garland Partners

16 Dec 2009

Plight of the Polar Bears

From the 7-18th December 2009 Videojuicer with support from Inlet Technologies and Garland Partners are helping to promote the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) which is being held in Copenhagen-Denmark.

“Climate change is considered one of the world’s greatest challenges. There is a need for everyone to limit their CO2 emissions” (icebearproject.org/info)

The event is to raise awareness and to promote conservation of wildlife that is diminishing due to climate change. On May 14th 2009 the polar bear was the first mammal to be listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act as a direct result of global warming.

To promote the event sculptor Mark Coreth has crafted beautiful ice polar bears that will be shown in various locations including Trafalgar Square and at the Copenhagen WWF tent . Over the course of the event, the ice will slowly melt to reveal a bronze skeleton. Organisers believe that this creative piece will form a connection between the people touching the polar bear and the critical conditions in the Arctic.

Garland Partners have provided an Inlet Technology Spinnaker 5000, The Spinnaker family of encoding solutions enables broadcast-quality streams over the Internet to multiple devices.

'We are delighted to be supporting the United Nations Climate Conference with our Spinnaker encoders,' said Don Bossi, Chairman & CEO for Inlet Technologies, 'and are very pleased with the successful outcome of this collaboration with Videojuicer, through our UK partner Garland Partners Limited (GPL)’.

GPL represents and supplies Inlet Technologies' products within the UK and provides a full package of technical and commercial support in the region. This event will be streamed live via the web including the sites www.telegraph.co.uk and www.NewScientist.com

Online video provides the ideal medium for raising awareness of issues such as climate change to a wider audience on a global basis. Videojuicer is one of the new wave of companies defining the creative potential for web video. Videojuicer is a video technology and services company that provides a scalable online platform that enables publishers large and small to upload, syndicate, analyse and monetise video content.
The Ice Bear Project can gain much more exposure as people can log on and view at any time of the day. It can also be embedded into blogs and the url can be spread through social networking sites including twitter updates. Global Warming is happening and broadcasting projects such as this one can highlight the issues many people. Hopefully as people become more aware of the situations CO2 emissions will decrease and the natural habitat of polar bears and many other wildlife can be saved.

Garland Partners Limited doesn’t just help save Polar Bears. We can provide innovative solutions for creating. managing, storing and delivering content all with professional support. To find out what solutions we can provide to your business call us today to discuss your requirements.