By Susan Seliger

Do you have a project you’ve been itching to expand in your community to make your neighborhood a little greener? Now is the time.

All you need to do is take some photos of your neighborhood green project in action – and describe how getting a grant would enable you to make the project grow and blossom.

It’s called The Green Works™ Green Heroes Grant Program (sponsored by Clorox Green Works) and you could be one of five Green Heroes who’ll each receive a $10,000 grant. Your photo and description of your future plans to grow your project will be judged by a panel of Eco-Experts, including representatives from the Sierra Club, ecofabulous.com and Josh Dorfman, the Lazy Environmentalist. Ten finalists will be chosen – and the five winners will be chosen by the public.

So enter now and green your community! Deadline: 2/28/09.

By Susan Seliger

You want to save energy, save money and save the planet, right?  So why not shoot your own little home video and show other Americans how they can be smarter in their energy use. Just a little 30-second video – and you could win $10,000.

That’s all there is to it. The video contest is sponsored by Smart Power, an organization devoted to helping Americans become smarter about their energy use.

Need inspiration? Smart Power offers these factoids on energy use to get your creative green juices flowing:

• Phantom load (the energy that appliances continue to draw when you think they’re off – but they’re still plugged in) wastes roughly the same amount of energy as produced by 18 power plants!

• If every American home replaced just one incandescent light bulb with a CFL bulb, we would save enough energy to light 3 million homes for a year, save over $600 million and reduce the emissions equivalent to 800,000 cars.

• If you are using a second refrigerator in your basement or garage, consider getting rid of it — you’d save over $100 per year.

So start shooting. The deadline for this Smart Power: Let’s Get Energy Smart contest is Earth Day — April 22, 2009.

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