Deadline: 28 February 2013
In 2010 the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) World Environment Day campaign sponsored an amazing trip for a green blogger, Tuesday Phillips, to go to Rwanda. In 2011 it was Ximena Prugue who won the prize to go to India. For 2012, Scott Bartlett got to blog about World Environment Day from Brazil. This year, we are looking for the next green blogger to take the campaign to the next level.
UNEP, in partnership with TreeHugger, invites you to enter the 2013 World Environment Day blogging competition by writing an inspiring blog on this year’s theme: Think.Eat.Save.
The task is to call for heightened awareness and immediate action to reduce food waste and loss across the food supply chain. There is so much to blog about! Just consider some of these facts:
The top ten bloggers, to be selected by a UNEP-TreeHugger jury, will be invited to a second round of blogging.
The winner of this second online showdown (blogdown) will be determined by an online community via the World Environment Day website through a voting system.
The blogger who accumulates the most votes by 15 April 2013 wins the competition and will be invited to blog about World Environment Day in this year’s amazing new host country for the campaign. The host country will be announced soon, but don’t miss the opportunity and enter the competition today.
In the spirit of World Environment Day, you can bet that it will be bigger and better!
WHAT’S INCLUDED? Flights and daily allowance for accommodation, food and travel within the host country to report on WED events will be covered, subject to applicable UN rules and regulations.
TIMING: World Environment Day is on June 5th, 2013. The contest winner will be flown to the host country for about three days, beginning June 3rd and ending June 6th 2013. Short-listed and winning posts will be published on TreeHugger and the World Environment Day websites (www.unep.org).
HOW TO ENTER AND WIN:
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
For queries/ submissions: worldenvironmentday@unep.org or via UNEP's Facebook page
Website: http://unep.org
In 2010 the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) World Environment Day campaign sponsored an amazing trip for a green blogger, Tuesday Phillips, to go to Rwanda. In 2011 it was Ximena Prugue who won the prize to go to India. For 2012, Scott Bartlett got to blog about World Environment Day from Brazil. This year, we are looking for the next green blogger to take the campaign to the next level.
UNEP, in partnership with TreeHugger, invites you to enter the 2013 World Environment Day blogging competition by writing an inspiring blog on this year’s theme: Think.Eat.Save.
The task is to call for heightened awareness and immediate action to reduce food waste and loss across the food supply chain. There is so much to blog about! Just consider some of these facts:
- The total quantity of wasted food around the globe, 300 million tonnes, is more than the total net food production of Sub-Saharan Africa--enough to feed the estimated 900 million people hungry in the world.
- Worldwide, one in every seven people go to bed hungry and more than 20,000 people die of hunger every day.
- Australians throw out more than 4 million tonnes of food every year: close to a thousand kilograms per household.
- Getting food from farm to fork in the US eats up 10% of the total energy budget, uses 50% of its land and swallows 80% of all fresh water consumed in the US. The equivalent of $165 billion each year.
- Uneaten food ends up rotting in landfills as the single largest component of US solid waste where it accounts for almost 25% of methane emissions.
The top ten bloggers, to be selected by a UNEP-TreeHugger jury, will be invited to a second round of blogging.
The winner of this second online showdown (blogdown) will be determined by an online community via the World Environment Day website through a voting system.
The blogger who accumulates the most votes by 15 April 2013 wins the competition and will be invited to blog about World Environment Day in this year’s amazing new host country for the campaign. The host country will be announced soon, but don’t miss the opportunity and enter the competition today.
In the spirit of World Environment Day, you can bet that it will be bigger and better!
WHAT’S INCLUDED? Flights and daily allowance for accommodation, food and travel within the host country to report on WED events will be covered, subject to applicable UN rules and regulations.
TIMING: World Environment Day is on June 5th, 2013. The contest winner will be flown to the host country for about three days, beginning June 3rd and ending June 6th 2013. Short-listed and winning posts will be published on TreeHugger and the World Environment Day websites (www.unep.org).
HOW TO ENTER AND WIN:
- Inform and Inspire. Write a compelling blog post about food waste in line with the theme, Think.Eat.Save – Reduce your foodprint! Inform people about the extended environmental impact of food waste. Not only does discarded food produce harmful methane emissions when stashed in landfills, but it also wastes the resources used in food production and transport. Your post should also inspire and excite people to reduce their food waste.
- Post a link to your story on the UNEP Facebook fan page http://facebook.unep.org with this comment, “I just entered to win an amazing trip to blog for UNEP’s World Environment Day 2013. Read my blog post about the impact of food waste and be inspired to reduce your foodprint.”
- Entries must be received between 6 February and 28 February 2013 (23:59hrs +3 GMT).
- To increase your chances of winning, post your story on Twitter with the hash tag #WED2013, and encourage friends to comment, ‘like’ the post on Facebook, and retweet your post across Facebook and Twitter.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
- Your post should be engaging, interesting, and passionate. Blogging is more personal than journalistic or academic writing. We are looking for individual perspectives and stories highlighting the competition food waste theme, which is Think.Eat. Save – Reduce your foodprint!
- Clarity is essential. Make it short, snappy and concise. The post must be a minimum of 400 words and a maximum of 600 words.
- Be original! This should help your post stand out from the crowd, and should increase your chances of winning.
- Read the World Environment Day website! This will give you detailed information on this year’s theme and events and activities taking place. You will also find links to other resources.
- Support your post with links to other web pages that are contextual to your post, including a link to the World Environment Day website. Check other environmental blogs to see how they do it.
- Ask your friends to comment on your post. We are looking to spread the word on World Environment Day. We will take this into account when judging, so the more comments, likes, and re-tweets your post has, the greater your chances of winning.
For queries/ submissions: worldenvironmentday@unep.org or via UNEP's Facebook page
Website: http://unep.org
