The Great Green Challenge
At Home
Show us what you or your family have done in your own home to help the Earth.
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Green living tip by: AntoniaMarzulli Glen Mills, PAMy husband and I are building a new home, our dream home! It is actually a log home (fully constructed with logs on the 1st floor with conventional framing and split log sidi...
Bottled Water
Green living tip by: JMECWREF Haddon Heights, NJMy family and I have stopped buying and using bottled water. The plastic bottles are dumped in landfills and are not recycled. We use a bottle that can be refilled with FILTER...
Light duty
Green living tip by: Disneyfamily144 Altoona, PAI put my children in charge of certain
Don't Throw Out the Baby's Bath Water
Green living tip by: eemryan Hampton, SCMy five year old, Katherine Louise, takes a bath every night. My husband and I agree that showers are more efficient, but she just is not old enough yet. Katherine and I use...
Go Digital
Green living tip by: kmk1180 bettendorf, IAGo digital. Install a digital thermostat system that will allow you to se the heating as you desire, room by room, according to the time of day or night and use up to 25% les...
Sand Saves Water
Green living tip by: kgaura bettendorf, IAUse sand. By placing a bottle filled with sand in your lavatory cistern you will reduce the volume of water used with each flush. Saving the volume of the bottle each time yo...
Contest Tips & Guidelines
- Document your green project thoroughly! Tell us what you did, why you did it, and how it makes your home, community, or work more eco-friendly.
- Write out your entry before you submit it. This way you can edit it and just copy and paste the final version into the fields on the upload page.
- Tell your friends and family about your entry and tell them to vote for you! Post a link to your entry on your social networking sites, blogs, etc.
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