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Monday, April 06, 2009

What's all the hoopla about Earth Hour, Earth Day, Earth Month and going green about? It’s really about more than just a day or month of the year. It's about you, and me, and each one of us - taking simple steps, making smarter decisions – every single day. By making the healthiest choices, you CAN protect the Earth and everyone living on it. It's really so much easier than you think.

And every little bit helps.

For example - according to Seventh Generation, if every household in the US replaced just one box of 100 sheet virgin fiber facial tissues with 100% recycled ones, we could save 332,000 trees, 859,000 cubic feet of landfill space (1,200 garbage trucks), 120 million gallons of water (a year's supply for 900 families of four), and avoid 20,000 pounds of chlorinated pollution.

All that from one box of tissue. Small actions really do add up.

So, what are you doing? There's so much you CAN do!

And, if you make a video of yourself doing what you do, you can win fabulous prizes - generously donated by Seventh Generation:

The GRAND PRIZE winner will receive an Apple 8G iPod Touch pre-loaded with Seventh Generation's Label Reading Guide application in addition to a years supply of Seventh Generation home care and cleaning products and a copy of the Healthy Child Healthy World book and DVD. FIRST PRIZE will receive a Flip Ultra digital video camera, a Seventh Generation Living Home Starter Kit and a copy of the Healthy Child Healthy World book and DVD. The eight runners-up will receive a Seventh Generation Living Home Cleaning Kit.

In addition, these videos will be used to educate and inspire thousands of other people! That could mean great promo for your own blog (if you have one) or simple good green Karma (you’ll be an educator, put it on your resume)!

There is only one rule (well, actually, there's a list of rules and you can find them at our website) but there is only one Golden Rule and that is you must have fun! If you're having fun doing it, people are going to have fun watching you, and hopefully then they'll try it too. And that's the whole point. We want you to inspire others to do whatever they can to protect their home, their health, and the planet.

Show us your stuff by making a video less than two minutes long of you or your kids or your pet Chihuahua or your hamster or your crazy Uncle Eddy taking some sort of simple step to make your home greener and healthier - protecting your little piece of the planet. Then enter it into our "Healthy Begins Here" video contest, because it all begins with you.

So, here's how you can get started:

Step #1 – Read the Official Rules and use our Tips, Tricks, and Tools to make your video in a snap.
Step #2 - If you're still stumped? Check out other submissions in our playlist.
Step #3 - Have fun making a video!
Step #4 - Submit your video by 12am/PST on May 12th as a video response to ours.
Step #5 - Wait patiently until May 15th when we announce the winners.

Good Luck! We can't wait to see your videos!