Just Do One's video contest wants your family's green ideas

Brainchild of Greg Horn, author of Living Green, A Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability, and partner Tom Foerstel Just Do One is a site dedicated to fostering an online community of like-minded individuals set to living sustainably. The site is a collaborative effort encouraging it's community to learn and share with each other for the greater good. Posing the question "What would our world be like if everyone adopted just one healthier habit for our planet?" Greg Horn and associates are calling to action the people of planet Earth to share with the world what they're doing to make a difference through a special video contest.

According to a recent press release, "The Just Do One organization is collecting the best ideas for more sustainable living, summarized in three-minute YouTube-style videos, and sharing them free with the interested community worldwide. The best video entry, as judged by the JustDoOne.org community and an expert panel, wins a $5,000 cash prize."

“We believe that great ideas are contagious and it doesn’t matter if you shoot them on a video camera or a cell phone or animate them in Flash. It’s the ideas that matter. JustDoOne.org helps by giving you information resources and links to music, graphics, and images you can use to tell your story.”

The contest runs from now through midnight, April 1, 2009. Videos should be up to three minutes. See the Just Do One site for information on how to enter, inspiration and to view the competition. Contest entries so far have come from an eclectic mix of Earth-minded folks from cutie-pie trained seals to uber-cool urbanites and are fun to watch.

Greg Horn suggests, “There was a lot of new awareness and concern, but almost no one was talking about solutions. Now people realize that the stakes are enormous, and they want to do something positive. Nobody’s perfect, but we have to get past the angst and anger over the scope of the problem, and get started with solutions on the scale of individual action.” How many reasons do you need to get active and creative making a video together expressing your family's inner-green?