Tag: Contests - Page 4
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Front Page of Newspaper is a Bouquet of Roses
Free newspapers are a curse, as they pile up, abandoned, in subways, buses and streets. London is down to two now, Metro in the morning and one at night. Metro challenged design and ad agencies to come up with an inspiring
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Win Up to $10,000 for Reducing Coffee Cup Waste
Every year, betacup tells us, 58 billion disposable coffee cups are thrown away. That's thrown away, not recycled. Clearly, this is a big problem. betacup hopes to put an end to this senseless waste with a contest that
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We Add Up Asks Schools to Compete for Garden Kits
It seems that We Add Up is always pushing some fun and innovative new campaign to raise awareness and encourage action. If they're not designing a cool new t-shirt, they're biking across the country: Always in an effort
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College Students Listen Up: Enter The Arbor Day Now Video Challenge and Win $2,500 in Trees For Your Community or College Campus
Are you an amateur videographer at heart just waiting for your time to shine? Well, now's your chance. The Arbor Day Foundation is looking for compelling videos to get people planting trees. And the top contest winner will receive
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Call for Entries: The 2010 James Dyson Award
Designers, engineers, inventors, and crafty gadgeteers, it's time to get the brain juices percolating and submit for the 2010 James Dyson Award. The competition is put up by the James Dyson Foundation, founded by the British inventor responsible for the
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Nature Themes Dominate Intl. Photography Contest
After reviewing around 80 thousand photographs, Sony World Photography Awards officials announced today the finalists in 21 different categories. Some of the most stunning
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Greener Gadgets 2010: What Do Top Concepts Say About Us, Electronics Industry?
The Greener Gadgets Design Competition is pooling the best concepts for eco-friendly electronics and handing them over to the public to narrow it down to three top choices from which the competition judges will
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Pepsi is Giving Away $20 Million in Grants—Apply Today!
For the last 23 years, Pepsi has used the Super Bowl as an advertising opportunity. The company's ads, often featuring celebrities, helped establish the annual football championship as a venue for attention-grabbing promotion. In 2010, however, that
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Show Us Your Best DIY Electric Bicycle, Says Renew Magazine
The print-based magazine, Renew, is running a competition to find the best DIY electric bicycle. For which they're offing bragging rights to the winner, in an upcoming issue of the magazine, as well a gift voucher at an online
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Redwood Creek Winery Offers $130,000 in Grants to Outdoor Non-Profits
Last year, Redwood Creek Winery offered a $50,000 grant to one exceptional non-profit working in the "great outdoors." The contest was such a success, that they have decided to do it again.
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Empty Building Sites to Become Pop-up Parks
In the downtown areas of many cities you can see empty lots where building projects have been halted due to the recession. Why not do something useful there instead of letting the garbage collect? Here's an idea: put a park or
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Tech Awards 2009 Recognizes Cows to Kilowatts as Winning Eco Project
Last night the Tech Awards kicked off in San Jose, California, honoring some incredible innovation happening across several categories, including the environment, education, health, biosciences and more. The competition
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Cleantech Open Announces Winners for Hottest Green Tech Start-Ups
Image via Cleantech Open Cleantech Open is thee competition for Claifornia (and nationwide) start-ups looking to gain seed money for their ideas. The hottest new concepts for clean technology in six categories - from renewable energy to waste to energy
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Create Your Own Custom Solar Car and Win $1,000 USD from Kia
Don't we wish it were that easy: Just go online, pick all the green attributes you want, and then pick up you own custom solar car the next week or month at a dealership. You could add solar panels, make it a plug-in,
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Win A Solar Array and an Eco-Refurbishment: 10:10 Campaign Offers Big Prizes
Imagine a free solar array for your home, combined with a full eco-makeover to eliminate draughts, improve comfort, efficiency and air quality. That's the prize on offer to green minded UK householders right now. It's just
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The Brower Youth Awards 2009: The Cure for Cynicism (Video)
I was looking at an (anonymous) TreeHugger's skype profile the other day, which read "I'd be more optimistic if more people worried." It's easy to feel like that. With climate change, war, famine and resource
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Green Blogger Crowned Greenest Voice in the UK
The winner of the competition to be the Green Voice of the UK is a green blogger, Piper Terrett. She beat out 100 other applicants and 3 other very impressive finalists. As the Brit's say "Piper pips the post".
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Capture Sustainability on Film, Send to Rainforest Alliance, Win Trip to Costa Rica
Seems like these eco-photo/video contests and climate change solution contests are popping up more and more these days. Maybe that improves your odds of winning...maybe. Well, if you have a
