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Midwest Biomass Energy Demonstration Facility Showcases Renewable Green Energy

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Wichita, KS (PRWEB) December 20, 2011

By converting biomass waste to energy America can reduce its dependence on costly fossil fuels, support the growth of agriculture, forestry, and rural economies, and create American jobs. Biomass waste includes wood waste, yard clippings, agricultural waste, animal waste, and even municipal solid waste.

According to the United States Department of Energys Billion-ton Update over 500 million tons of biomass waste is produced in the United States annually and that figure is estimated to expand beyond one billion tons by the year 2022.

Utilizing this waste as energy means displacing approximately thirty percent of Americas current petroleum consumption, saving American businesses from importing costly fossil fuels and fueling Americas energy needs locally.

Alternative Energy Solutions International Inc. (AESI) is committed to evolving Americas energy usage to clean, green, and renewable biomass energy through biomass gasification. With a primary focus of providing thermal energy outputs, AESIs biomass gasification solutions, services, and technologies produce hot water, hot air, steam, or thermal oil to generate heating, cooling, process-steam, or electricity through combined heat and power (CHP) applications.

On February 1-2, 2012 AESI will launch its Biomass Research Institute which includes a full-scale operational GLOBAL 30 biomass gasification boiler. Utilizing technologies designed and developed for over 50 years by San Martino, Italy-based Uniconfort srl, AESI provides clients with reliable and proven solutions for generating thermal energy from biomass.

Featuring guided tours of the facility and demonstration unit, presentations by key industry partners, and dedicated attention from industry specialists the two-day event will focus on showcasing functional biomass energy solutions.

The AESI Biomass Research Institute is located in Wichita, KS, in the heart of the Midwest and close to the geographic center of the United States.

Join AESI for the Biomass Research Institute Open House February 1-2, 2012. Registration is free and can be completed online at http://www.aesintl.net/bri/bri-open-house.

About Alternative Energy Solutions International Inc.

AESI is biomass energy evolved. With a primary focus on delivering modular, thermal first applications for commercial and industrial clients, AESIs biomass gasification systems are designed to reduce or remove the customer’s dependence on traditional fossil fuel sources. AESIs respected team has been gasifying and combusting alternative fuels since 1996. Strategic partner relationships enable AESI to offer turnkey delivery of reliable, high performance systems from single to multi-unit delivery. With sister company Wichita Burner Incorporateds 50 years of combustion expertise and AESIs proven biomass experience, the company delivers an optimized system that is designed to meet the energy need and function as intended from day one. For more information, visit http://www.aesintl.net.

Media contact:

Doug Cure

info(at)aesintl(dot)net

316 S Laura St

Wichita, KS 67211

316-201-4143

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17 Million to Enter DV-2011 Green Card Lottery

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Albuquerque, NM (PRWEB) October 6, 2009

The United States Association of Immigrants at myUSAi.org today announce that the U.S. State Department released instructions for the 2009 green card (diversity visa) lottery which opened October 2nd. This program provides up to 55,000 visas each year to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. In place since 1994, the diversity visa lottery awards visas to applicants via a random computer-generated drawing.

Eligibility is based on personal eligibility requirements covering educational level or work experience, and country of birth. According to J. Stephen Wilson, President of the United States Association of Immigrants, “We originally estimated 20 million will register this year, however the world economy will likely reduce this figure to 17 million”. The numbers could be higher or lower depending on other factors, especially access to computer technology in visa eligible third world countries like Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Egypt. The total number includes the spouses and children of the primary applicant.

The official instructions, secondary references, and related web sites include additional requirements that govern photographs, allowed occupations, family eligibility rules and other recommendations that can affect your entry. The sixth edition of Win the Green Card Lottery! helps lottery entrants successfully navigate the maze of official and unofficial rules, regulations, and rumors, not only for entering the lottery but what do to if you win. Since 50% of lottery winners fail to obtain their visa, and millions more are unknowingly disqualified for incorrect entries, there is a clear need for a book that brings together and explains all the latest information.

The 2009 edition provides the most comprehensive, current, and easy-to-read explanation of the diversity visa lottery available. Written for DV lottery entrants, foreign students, NAFSA members, HR representatives, paralegals, and others who work with U.S. visa holders, this latest edition includes updated screenshots of the registration process, more detailed explanations of family eligibility, an entire chapter for lottery winners, and more.

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Author Marybeth Rael wrote Win the Green Card Lottery! based on her experience with a lottery service she established. Co-author J. Stephen Wilson is a writer for the Albuquerque Immigration Examiner and editor Michael C. Cruse is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Since many entrants prefer or need to use a paid lottery service to assist them with their registration, the section “Using a Lottery Service” was updated to include listings of top-rated visa lottery service providers and which to avoid.

Holger Zimmerman, owner of The American Dream at Green-card.com, one of the world’s leading lottery services, explains, ‘While the green card lottery is especially popular in less developed countries, interest is rising in Europe as well. In Germany for example, 2188 people actually won the green card – the highest number recorded during the last decade.’

About The United States Association of Immigrants

Creative Networks at myUSAi.org is the publisher of Win the Green Card Lottery! the COMPLETE Do-It-Yourself Guide to the USA Diversity Visa Lottery, DV-2009–DV-2011 by Marybeth Rael and J. Stephen Wilson. PDF ISBN-13: 9780981693835 ($ 12.50); Paperback ISBN-13: 9780981693828 ($ 19.50). It includes a full index, illustrations, and glossary of immigration terms, 184 pages. The booklet is now available in PDF format at myUSAi.org and in paperback from Amazon.com USA, Amazon.com UK, and elsewhere.

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EB5i Partners with Mirzam Investor Green Card to help more Investors Get their Green Cards

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Jupiter,Fl (PRWEB) April 20, 2012

Paul Hannam and EB5i.com are excited to announce their partnership with Mirzam Investor Green Card, LLC. a USCIS approved Regional Center. President and Founder of Mirzam Investor Green Card, Clifford Morris, immigrated to the United States in 2006 with his wife and 3 children. Clifford quickly identified the EB5 visa program as a great opportunity for foreigners who are looking to obtain a US Green Card.

Even before I moved to the United States I identified the EB5 program as a great opportunity for foreign investors to bring their families and lifestyle to America. The EB5 visa program provides a fast track to America and all its opportunities. Clifford Morris President of Mirzam Investor Green Card, LLC.

Being an immigrant himself, Clifford and his team are in a unique position to help EB5 investors navigate the potential pitfalls of an already complex immigration process. His current EB5 project, Florida Organic Aquaculture (FOA), provides EB5 investors with a unique opportunity in a sea of “me too” EB5 visa real estate investments. The aquaculture project brings together a highly qualified group of internationally recognized academics and experienced professionals using cutting edge American technology to breed and produce a variety of seafood for the South Florida market, one of the largest seafood markets in the United States.

Florida Organic Aquaculture uses a specialized recirculating water aquaculture system that is enclosed in greenhouses. It uses advanced water quality monitoring systems, pumps, filters, a water treatment plant and emergency back-up devices to maintain perfect growing conditions year round. Fishing and open-air aquaculture are seasonal. Enclosure combined with a closed loop recirculating water supply creates bio-security, addressing the dominant causes of shrimp farm failure; diseases, bird predation and upstream & downstream pollution.

FOAs technology advantages extend well beyond eliminating limitations its competitors face: it yields up to ten times the shrimp production. It also eliminates chemicals and germs that degrade and destroy the natural taste of shrimp. It enables shrimp to grow out faster, making it practical to sell jumbo and colossal sized shrimp that command twice the price of commodity size shrimp. It produces fresh shrimp with a shelf life of several days, compared to the usual twenty-four to thirty-six hours that shrimp last after thawing. Jumbo and colossal sizes currently make up around 4% of import tonnage, but 8% of import revenues. Colossal size shrimp are in constant shortage. Open pen farms cannot economically grow these sizes, easily.

For more information regarding Clifford’s aquaculture project please email regionalcenter@eb5i.com to request a copy of their Immigration Overview Brochure.

We understand that the immigration process can be very confusing and we hope that offering direct access to an established EB5 Regional Center can help you get the facts you need to make an informed decision.







Better Life Maids Jacksonville Brings Green House Cleaning to Where Florida Begins

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Jacksonville, FL (PRWEB) June 08, 2012

Better Life Maids green house cleaning has arrived in Jacksonville, Florida. Better Life Maids uses the entire line of Better Life natural household cleaning products, and has built a cleaning system from the ground up that is safer for their clients home, and for mother earth. Better Life Maids stated goal is to create a Wow! experience for their clients and now Jacksonville homes can experience the Better Life maids green cleaning difference for themselves. Better Life Maids Jacksonville is set to open late June of 2012.

Better Life Maids is a fast growing green house cleaning franchise. Its co-branded retail partner Better Life has a line of natural household cleaning products that are sold coast to coast in stores such as Whole Foods. Together they are aiming to build the first national name brand in green house cleaning. The opening of Better Life Maids Jacksonville is a step in that direction.

“I am very excited to help bring such a great business that helps families and the environment to Jacksonville,” said Matt Henry a Jacksonville resident and Better Life Maids franchise owner. “Better Life Maids is all about providing its clients with a higher level of service, and the best in green products and services. Giving Jacksonville a choice for a greener, cleaner, and better home cleaning.”

Better Life Maids and Better Life have received quite a lot of attention lately. Better Life was featured on the Today Show, Real Simple Magazine, Oprah.com and many other national media outlets. Better Life Maids has been featured in Kiwi Magazine, Green Child Magazine, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and many more media outlets. As Better Life & Better Life Maids grows their green house cleaning brand from coast to coast their are opportunities in hundreds of cities across the U.S. for prospective franchisees to own a Better Life Maids franchise of their very own.

Better Life Maids highlights the following reasons why its franchise system is a unique opportunity for prospective franchisees:

>>low start up costs

>>a unique co-branded retail partnership for increased brand awareness

>>high tech tools that make running the business fun and easy

>>advanced online marketing strategy

>>brand loyalty tools that generate increased top line revenue and drives brand growth

About Better Life Maids

Better Life Maids is a green house cleaning service founded in St. Louis, MO. It has created a unique marketing partnership with Better Life a natural household cleaning products manufacturer. Together they are working to create the first national name brand in natural household cleaning products and green house cleaning services. Better Life Maids is expanding in select markets through a franchise development system. For more information visit http://www.betterlifemaids.com.







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Green Diamond Lovers Given Choice with New Diamonds by Donna Website Collection

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Salt Lake City, UT (Vocus/PRWEB) March 25, 2011

Today, Diamond Donna Root, and Diamonds by Donna partner Jon R. Moss, officially launched their new Diamonds by Donna website, which is the only place online that features their combination of eco-friendly, conflict-free cultured and natural diamonds together in stunning diamond custom designs. Diamonds by Donna is giving consumers a choice with their collection that offers a perfect marriage of science and nature in their combination of natural diamond and cultured diamond jewelry. Discerning Jewelry consumers can also opt to go with diamonds grown from diamond seeds, through a Diamonds by Donna technology that creates what before only nature could produce, perfect diamonds with the same physical, optical, and chemical composition of a natural, earth-grown diamond.

Diamond Donna Root and Diamonds by Donna partner Jon R. Moss are pleased to offer their new designs to people discerning enough to understand the history behind a diamond purchase is important to the environment. Recently while launching their new company at the GBK 2011 Luxury Oscars Celebrity Lounge at the W Hotel in Hollywood, Diamond Donna and Jon R. Moss were pleased to find that so many celebrities were more concerned with the environmental background of the diamonds than just the bling factor.

Nicole Ari Parker was interested to learn that the Diamonds by Donna collection gives us the option of exclusively conflict-free and eco-friendly diamond jewelry, said Diamond Donna Root. Nicole shared very heart felt support of our efforts to keep all of our jewelry conflict- free.”

According to Diamond Donna, like Nicole Ari Parker, environmentally conscious people from all over the world are telling us that what we are doing for diamonds is similar to what Mikimoto did in the pearl industry with cultured pearls.

You should be twittering about this and making sure someone is talking about all the time because this product matters, said Nicole Ari Parker to Diamond Donna Root. I love what you are doing!

We are growing diamonds, they are not synthetic they have exactly the same chemical, physical and optical properties as a natural earth grown diamond, said Diamond Donna Root. We are helping to preserve the environment while helping people feel great about wearing bling made with the timeless beauty and authentic energy of diamonds.

Diamonds by Donna which offers the perfect marriage of science and nature by combining eco-friendly, conflict-free, cultured and natural diamonds in brilliant custom jewelry, recently launched their new company at the GBK Luxury Oscars Celebrity Lounge at the W Hotel over the Oscar 2011 weekend. To see some the products given to Academy Awards nominees, please visit http://www.diamondsbydonnaattheoscars.com/. For media information, please contact: Kim Power Stilson at 801-358-3649 or kim(at)powerstrategies(dot)TV.

Diamonds by Donna redefines perfection by offering the perfect marriage of nature and science with both natural, earth-grown diamonds and cultured diamonds grown from diamond seeds. For more details please visit http://www.diamondsbydonna.com or for more personalized service, please call 877-778-0646. http://www.diamondsbydonnaattheoscars.com/

Nicole Ari Parker is a graduate of the Tisch School for the Performing Arts as well as a published poet. Nicole is best known for her outstanding performance as Teri Joseph of Showtime’s award-winning Soul Food and has displayed her acting range in several blockbuster and independent films. She has been featured in Touchstone Picture’s Remember the Titans, Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins with Martin Lawrence, Boogie Nights with Mark Wahlberg, the HBO Original Film Dancing in September and opposite Taye Diggs in Fox Searchlight’s Brown Sugar. This past summer Parker starred opposite Eddie Murphy in Paramount Pictures’ Imagine That, and she will next appear with Rockmond Dunbar in Pastor Brown. Her extensive background in theatre includes Off-Broadway productions like Chicago, House of Lear and Romeo and Juliet. She also appeared in the television movies The Loretta Claiborne Story, Exiled and Mind Prey. http://www.nicoleariparkeronline.com

Diamond Donna Root founder of the Diamonds by Donna is known as Diamond Donna as much for her sparkling personality as for her innovative leadership in the billion dollar diamond industry. As an author, lecturer, speaker, entrepreneur and talk show host, Diamond Donna shares her message about achieving transformational growth. For more information about Donna Root, please visit http://www.donnaroot.com or http://www.gettingpastyou.com. http://www.diamondsbydonnaattheoscars.com/

Jon R. Moss is a Utah-based business owner, investor, and entrepreneur with experience in industries ranging from commercial janitorial to fashion. Moss owns RBM Building Services, the largest locally-owned janitorial company in the state of Utah and has partnered with Diamonds by Donna, the first company in the world to offer both earth-grown and cultured diamonds directly to consumers. http://www.jonrmoss.com or http://www.diamondsbydonna.com.

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Eco-Conscious Hotel Indigo

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Vernon Hills, IL (PRWEB) January 15, 2009

No styrofoam cups or solvents can be found anywhere in the 100% non-smoking Hotel Indigo Chicago-Vernon Hills, which opened last fall with a full green agenda from the start. What guests will find is one of the area’s few hybrid parking places that the hotel installed to increase consumer awareness and encourage guests to save gas and use lower emission transportation.

The Hotel Indigo Chicago-Vernon Hills is helping set eco-standards in the travel industry by instituting creative and aggressive programs to save water, energy and reduce solid waste. For example, in the area of water conservation, the hotel has implemented “Conserving for Tomorrow,” an environmental program developed exclusively for InterContinental Hotels Group (the hotel’s franchise company). There are low flow systems for faucets, toilets and showers, and guests are asked to use linens more than once to save water, detergent and energy. This program saves the hotel 7,200 gallons of water and 51 gallons of detergent per month. In addition, any chemicals used are eco-friendly.

Guests are greeted by a front desk and lobby Kirei board both made from reclaimed agricultural fiber, an eco-friendly wood substitute. Wall coverings are low VOC (volatile organic compound); Shaw Indigo wood laminate in guestrooms is made with 70% pre-consumer recycled content, and Johnsonite Millwork Base (an economical alternative to real wood that contributes to forest conservation) is featured in guestrooms and corridors.

For information, contact the Hotel Indigo Chicago-Vernon Hills at 1-847-918-1400, call toll-free 1-877-8-INDIGO (1-877-846-3446) or visit http://www.vernonhillsboutique.com/.

About Hotel Indigo Chicago-Vernon Hills

The new Hotel Indigo Chicago-Vernon Hills sports a fresh, innovative design that reflects the hotel’s adherence to tranquility, renewal and the elements of nature, and a contemporary and comforting environment where guests can rest and recharge in luxury.

The hotel offers an innovative lobby; 127 stylish and beautifully appointed studio suites with hardwood floors, complimentary WiFi, flat panel TV and refrigerator; ‘In.spiration’ flexible event space; 24-hour “Phitness” studio; business center, and indoor heated pool.

Areas of the public space each take on a different seasonal theme to showcase tranquility and comfort. In addition, the hotel’s PHI Bistro & Bar serves fresh menu selections that change every three months with seasonal “In.spirations.” Healthy items include wholegrain muffins, non fat yogurt, fresh fruit, grilled fish and locally grown fresh vegetables. Full evening beverage service features martinis, a diverse wine list and 24-hour bottled beverages. PHI also offers “Martini Tuesdays” with three 2-ounce martinis of choice for a reasonable $ 5.99, along with discounts on delicious tapas appetizers to pair with its extensive line-up of 25 martinis. There is Grab-and-Go service with healthy and traditional snack items, and full service Starbucks coffee bar through the “We Proudly Brew” program. Take-in service is available.

Hotel Indigo Chicago-Vernon Hills is located at 450 North Milwaukee Ave., an easy walk to shopping and entertainment, and minutes from numerous restaurants, the Cuneo Museum, Gurnee Mills Outlets and Great Lakes Naval Base. The hotel offers complimentary shuttle service within a five-mile radius, based on availability.

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Green Officer Training will Launch in Miami, FL in October

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Chicago, IL (PRWEB) October 5, 2009

The Green Business League has long been known as one of the best Green training programs in America, having trained more than 2,500 businesses in Green practices. But across America, most businesses are still struggling with how to Go Green while avoiding the error of Greenwashing.

The first of its kind, Green Officer training will take place in Miami on Oct. 28-30 at a luxury Green hotel located in beautiful Miami, FL. Interest in this training will come from companies who are ready to Go Green in a professional way rather than the patchwork programs so prevalent in the market today. For two and a half days, the Green Officer training will be offering a holistic training on how Green business is installed and how Green business certification is properly achieved.

Starting on November 9th, this same course will be offered online allowing a two week period for students to learn the subject matter and complete the work project. By the end of the course, each student must compose a workable program for Greening a business. Using proprietary materials that make the process applicable to any business and easy to accomplish, Going Green has never made so much sense.

This program is for any level business person who wishes to get a firm grip on the meaning of Green and how it operates. Oddly enough, you will quickly discover that most people do not understand the basic concepts and are destined to install ideas that are too narrow, poorly conceived, or lack the credibility it takes to promote the company as an authentically Green business.

The Green Officer training is seriously needed in every industry. This program is designed to empower in-house employees who are given what might be viewed as a college level course compacted into three days. The course offers one of the most well-rounded presentations of the many elements of environmental training one might find, while driving constantly toward a Green business program that is literally suitable for any size business.

Contrary to many Eco training programs, the training is product neutral. The focus in on the concept of Green Practices which means that the solutions have universal application and need not be expensive. On the other hand, the Green Officer training program also highlights one of the little known issues of Green efficiencies. The Green business transition has often been considered a red ink type investment; but suddenly, the corporate world is learning that Going Green will cut costs, increase productivity, save energy, and will make the company more profitable in as little as 12 to 24 months. There seems no valid reason for not making the Green business transition.

Since the Green Business League has also pioneered the first Green business certification based on Green Practices rather than building construction like LEED, others have followed. None have found the ability to create a true national standing as an independent, third-party certification source. The GBL 100 point system takes the mystery out of Going Green, and allows any business to earn its Green business certification. Another evidence of the Green Business League’s credibility is more than 300 trained Green consultants national as well as boasting consultants in Canada, Brazil, Bahamas, Dubai, and Europe.

Little proof of the strength of this organization is needed, however, when the students leave the Green Officer training. The information is excellent and complete. The process of Green business certification is unmistakable, and the support offered is tremendous. Those wishing to find out more about this program should visit the website (http://www.GreenOfficerTraining.com), and consider making arrangements before this class fills up.

This course is suggested for any employees, managers, or business people who want to literally get “hands on” training that does more than offer a few Green ideas. This course is also valuable to those business people looking to strengthen their resumes with a credential that can only become more valuable as the eventual Green revolution turns into a tsunami of Green mandates.

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Pinnacle Stone Products Featured on NBC10′s 2011-2012 Green Home Project Program

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Parkesburg, PA (PRWEB) May 02, 2012

Pinnacle Stone Products (http://www.pinnacleveneer.com), producers of the finest 100% natural thin stone veneer that delivers the rich look of traditional stone masonry to any project, was recently featured on the exterior of two newly constructed carriage homes, as part of NBC10 Philadelphias Green Home Program, through local home builder Cornell Homes (http://www.cornellhomes.net/).

In 2011, Philadelphia news channel NBC10 teamed up with Greg Lingo, President and CEO of Cornell Homes, to focus on informing and educating consumers about green technology for their homes and created the Green Home Program. NBC10 documented Cornell Homes as they constructed and renovated three green homes throughout the Delaware Valley region. The processes and materials used to build and service these homes were all energy efficient and eco-friendly.

In 2012, Cornell Homes is switching their focus to new construction, by building thirteen green luxury carriage homes in Lower Merion Township in Haverford, PA, in a development called Haverford Court. Cornell Homes chose Pinnacle Stone Products Pinnacle Mica thin stone veneer product, which is 100% natural stone and environmentally friendly, for the foundations water table area on its first two complete carriage homes. Pinnacle Mica was the perfect stone selection to mirror the rich architectural history of the Haverford region, while providing green building practices. In fact, all of Pinnacle Stones 35+ thin stone veneer products are 100% natural, locally produced, and free of any harmful chemicals. Choosing Pinnacle thin stone veneer, can qualify you for L.E.E.D.S.

HOPE on the Green Tournament at Woodforest Golf Club Sells Out; May 4 Fundraiser Supports Research to Treat and Cure Juvenile Batten Disease

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The Woodlands, TX (PRWEB) April 30, 2012

Golfers are getting ready to tee it up this Friday, May 4 at the sold out Third Annual HOPE on the Green tournament, a fun-filled day that raises critically needed funding for The Will Herndon Fund for Juvenile Batten Disease Research, a fund of the Beyond Batten Disease Foundation.

Beyond Batten Disease Foundation supports research to treat and cure Batten disease, which is a rare, fatal, inherited, neurodegenerative disorder that strikes young children, including 9-year- old Will Herndon of The Woodlands. The condition initially causes blindness and seizures, progressively impairs cognitive and motor capacities, and then ultimately results in death during the late teen years or early 20s. The foundation also has funded the development of a screening test to help prevent the devastating disease along with hundreds of other serious and often deadly genetic, childhood illnesses.

Because Batten disease is so uncommon, there is not much federal funding for research to treat and cure it. So, in 2008, Craig and Charlotte Benson of Austin started Beyond Batten Disease Foundation after learning that their then 5-year-old daughter, Christiane, had the condition. In 2010, Wayne and Missy Herndon of The Woodlands launched The Will Herndon Fund as part of the foundation, following diagnosis of their son, Will. Based in The Woodlands, the fund has raised nearly $ 750,000 to date.

HOPE on the Green will be at Woodforest Golf Club in Montgomery, Texas. The course was designed by 10-time PGA Tour champion, Steve Elkington, and is the states No. 1 public-access course (in the $ 60-$ 81 daily fee range), according to the Dallas Morning News 2011 rankings. On-site check-in for the four-person, scramble format event begins at 10 a.m. followed by lunch before players tee off at 12:30 p.m. Immediately after tournament play, there will be an awards ceremony, appetizers and a cigar and Scotch tasting bar.

Throughout the day, players can participate in a variety of contests. Sewell Automotive Companies is sponsoring hole-in-one and closest-to-the-pin contests for a $ 35,000 Infiniti G37 sedan and a weekend convertible rental, respectively. Woodforest Golf Club is generously sponsoring $ 1,000,000 shoot-out and $ 100,000 putting contests. Helicopter Services, Inc. again will provide the HOPE Helicopter Ball Drop. Golfers bet on numbered balls, then a helicopter drops the balls onto a green; the golfer who bets on the first ball that lands in the hole wins a brand new iPad 2 courtesy of The Aldridge Company.

HOPE on the Green is a great way for golfers in The Woodlands and Houston metro areas to truly make a difference in the world we are blessed to have more than 216 golfers signed up, said Missy Herndon, Wills mother, event chair and fund founder. We are in a literal race against time to save Will and the hundreds of children like him. Private funding is crucial to meet our mission. People in The Woodlands and surrounding communities are helping to make that possible.

To date, The Will Herndon fund has: