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Toward Zero waste initiative at 2009 Banff Mountain Festivals a success

Banff Mountain Film Festival:Facebook: “The Banff Mountain Festivals has been working hard for the last two years to implement a Toward Zero Waste Initiative for our 10 day event here at The Banff Centre. We just received the numbers, which we’re very proud of: 89% of all waste collected was recycled or composted instead of ending up in the landfill.”

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Bernadette McDonald: Passion for mountains shaped career

mcdonald bernadetteCalgary Herald: “A chance evening walk in snow-covered Banff ignited a passion for the mountains in Bernadette McDonald, then an 11-year farm kid from Saskatchewan — a passion that would eventually lead her to being inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence for her work in preserving and promoting mountain culture. On October 15, after almost 20 years at the helm of the Banff Mountain Festivals and now a successful author, McDonald received the highest honour the province can give a citizen for outstanding community service.”

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Men and the mountains [Banff Mountain Festivals]

Calgary Herald: “There are plenty of other mountains to climb, and amazing ski runs, and exciting rivers. If the tales of aging mountaineers, and films on high adventure can pack the largest theatre of the Banff Centre every year, it’s clear that part of us still craves living on the wild side of the mountain.”

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Bringing the world back to Banff [Mountain Film and Book Festivals]

Calgary Herald: “The Banff Centre brings back the world’s outdoors illuminati with its annual film and book festivals.”

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Singular honour for young B.C. filmmaker

CBC Arts : “A 12-year-old Nelson boy has become the youngest filmmaker to become a finalist at the Banff Mountain Film Festival.”

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The Banff Film Festival: Has it become a reflection of our own excess?

New West Network: “But each year as the adrenaline shots get more and more titillating, and the hairball stunts get nuttier and nuttier, one gets the sense that those of us who applaud what we witness in the Banff Festival are participating in a kind of feeding frenzy that will ultimately consume the best of what we love about the mountain culture we’ve come to celebrate.”

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Telluride films featured at Banff

Telluride Daily Planet “From the ski slopes of Stumper to the banks of the Gunnison River deep within the Black Canyon, three films from the Telluride region went north for the Banff Mountain Film Festival. Following all three of the films’ premiers at the Telluride MountainFilm festival in early June, the Banff Mountain Film Festival accepted Solilochairliftquist, The Hatch and The Lost People of Mountain Village.”

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The Mountaineers: Aiding nature, book by book

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Article about the success of Seattle’s Mountaineer Books, including a discussion of Subhankar Banerjee’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land, which won the Mountain Book Festival mountain images award in 2003.

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Film Festival announcement picked up by many news sites

November 9, 2004 — The following sites have picked up on the Banff Mountain Film Festival news release announcing the winners, all using the spelling Odworot for the Polish word for “retreat” (the correct word is “odwrót”).

Sites picking up the story from CP with the same title as the news release: “Forgotten Polish film takes Grand Prize at Banff Mountain Film Festival”:

Non-CP sites:

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