“Right now we’re hoping for the best and expecting the worst. That’s just the reality of the situation we’re in.”
Livestrong CEO Doug Ulman reacts to the news that Nike will no longer produce the Livestrong apparel line.
Ulman says donations went up after Lance Armstrong initially quit fighting doping allegations. But after much more damning evidence of an Armstrong-lead, extensive doping conspiracy, Nike has dropped Armstrong, and he’s resigned from the cancer charity. Can Livestrong still survive?
Photo: Richard Masoner / Cyclelicious on Flickr
Lance Armstrong is ending his fight against doping charges. “There comes a point in every man’s life when he has to say, “Enough is enough,” he said in a statement released tonight. He may be stripped of his seven Tour de France titles as a result.
We’ve been following this story closely since our October 2010 issue:
Can Livestrong Survive Lance Armstrong and a Doping Scandal?
Meet the Loop. Could this be energy efficiency “Livestrong” symbol?
What is the rallying cry for the nascent energy efficiency movement? Last fall, Frog Design organized-a day-long session for entrepreneurs, designers, and executives to sketch out a symbol (or a brand) for energy efficiency and the smart grid. The session yielded some promising ideas that have been fleshed out into three full-fledged design concepts.
Our favorite design is the Loop, a mobius strip meant to remind us of “our contributions to a never-ending natural cycle: from engineers to consumers, from plants to transmission cables to homes, from the Earth to our fingertips, and back again.” Frog imagines that the Loop could at first be used as a lifestyle statement, much like the Livestrong symbol. Eventually, the Loop could be used as a rooftop energy generator or plug-in monument to energy efficiency.
To see more concepts, click here.
