Contest: $5000 For Winning Green Home Improvement Video
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The Home Depot is holding a contest for videos on home energy conservation. For the first prize video, the Atlanta-based chain is offering $5000 in Home Depot gift certificates towards energy-saving products at Home Depot and up to $2000 for installed insulation or radiant barrier products. You’ve got to hurry if you want to enter! Submissions are due by November 9th. They will be judging entries based on three categories:
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- Creativity: 30%
- Originality: 30%
- Relevance to Energy Savings Theme: 40%
Entires should be under three minutes long and focus on some common home energy issue, like lowering power or gas bills. A second prize winner will get $1500 in Home Depot gift cards for purchasing energy-saving devices, and the third prize is a $500 gift card for the same purpose They’ll announce the winners on November 24th.
I can’t wait to see what folks come up with! Are you planning to enter? If so, you can check out the contest page here!
I might just enter this. I’ve already outfitted my home with a number of conservation products from eartheasy.com and some from Home Depot. It’s really easy to save a lot of money if you do it right. Take a look at the HD site, and the eartheasy site: link: http://eartheasy.com/shop/energy_efficiency.html
because we all need to do our part to cut back on our consumption.