Get FREE Tickets to the Green Festival!

Seth Goldman, President & CEO of Honest Tea, will be speaking at the Green Festival this weekend in Washington, D.C. and he wants you to join him! Goldman’s speech will by Sunday, November 9th at 2:00pm.  Be one of the first 25 people to email the following info to lauren@honesttea.com to win 2 FREE tickets to GreenFest as well as an Honest Tea t-shirt.

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Honest Tea will be out in full force with loads of cold Honest Tea and Honest Ade for Seth’s presentation “Honest Tea: An Innovator in Sustainability.” Seth will discuss the challenges Honest Tea has overcome as it has grown over the past ten years to be the best-selling organic tea brand.

To learn more about GreenFest, check out GreenFestivals.org.

Get Trees for Your City Using Your American Express Card

American Express® is giving its cardholders a chance to win up to $300,000 worth of trees for their city with the ‘Root for Your City’ contest, going on until October 31st.  How it works is simple: look for participating merchants in your area on the American Express® website, or watch for the tree icon in-store. Pay for your purchase with any American Express® Card to ‘vote’ for your city.  The city that gets the largest amount of votes wins a $300,000 tree-planting grant, and the second through eighth place cities will each receive $100,000 toward planting trees.

Find participating businesses in your area today and you can help green up your city simply by making purchases.  The merchants participating include jewelry stores, shoe stores, furniture stores, movie theatres, museums, restaurants, clothing boutiques and even acupuncturists and fish markets.  The cities participating include Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, NYC, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

Get more info at the American Express website!

Link [Root for Your City]

Brighter Planet and 1Sky Launch Climate Video Contest

Have an impact on the future of the planet – inspire the next president of the United States to take bold climate action. Brighter Planet and 1Sky have announced their Climate Matters Video Contest to give Americans the opportunity to make a difference. The winner will receive a $3,000 Brighter Planet Visa Gift Card, and the second and third place winners will receive $1,000 and $500 Brighter Planet Visa Gift Cards, respectively.

To enter the contest, upload a 30- or 60- second video encouraging bold climate change to the Climate Matters channel on vimeo.com/climatematters. The topic must be climate change. The deadline to upload your video is September 22nd, 2008, and winners will be announced on September 29th.

Here are some of the details:

The Climate Matters Video Contest provides all Americans with the chance to have their global climate change message seen by our next president and other political leaders. This October, the top 10 videos will be featured during a Washington, D.C.-based event for the media, Congress and both presidential campaigns. These top videos will also be broadcast to millions via Link TV, FSTV, and online at venues including: www.think.mtv.com, www.joost.com, www.huffingtonpost.com and www.quarterlife.com.

“We know Americans are inspired to take climate action; they’re already taking steps everyday,” said actress and Climate Matters juror Maggie Gyllenhaal. “I’m excited to see what people create.”

The 10 most viewed videos will be judged by a panel that includes: actress Maggie Gyllenhaal; Rory Kennedy, Emmy award-winning documentary producer; Tia Lessin, the supervising producer of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine; Leila and Nadia Conners, the producers/directors of 11th Hour; author Anya Kamenetz; David Jenkins, Government Affairs Director of Republicans for Environmental Protection; Bill Stetson, Producer and Environmental Consultant; Gillian Caldwell, Campaign Director of 1Sky; and Patti Prairie, CEO of Brighter Planet.

Viewers can log in to Vimeo to pick their favorite video and enter a drawing on the channel to win a Cannon VIXIA HDV Camcorder. Contestants can promote their videos to improve their chances of being counted among the top 10.

Check out an introductory Climate Matters video below:

Climate Matters from Brighter Planet on Vimeo.

Link [Brighter Planet] + [1Sky]