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GoGreenTube.com to Replace YouTube in Hosting National Wildlife Federation's Environmental Chill Out Contest - news from Boston.com

Reston, VA. (August 20) Colleges and universities are stepping up to the call for global warming action and confronting it on campus, with the tools they already use in their daily life: Their webcam, their cell phone, and their video camera. National Wildlife Federation has partnered with www.GoGreenTube.com and they are looking for the best videos of global warming solutions on campus. For each video that is watched by a GoGreenTube community member, Go Green Tube offsets one pound of carbon through Carbon Fund. Not only can you watch great green videos, but you can offset carbon sitting in front of your computer.

National Wildlife Federation’s Campus Ecology program’s Chill Out competition is in its third year of awarding and recognizing all the cool things students, faculty and staff are doing to reduce the impacts of global warming.

“Colleges and universities are key places for demonstrating to society how to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, the major culprit of global warming,” says Julian Keniry, Director of Campus and Community Leadership for the National Wildlife Federation. “Chill Out recognizes and celebrates the schools which are leading the way to a more sustainable future.”

Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to create a three minute creative video about what they, their school, or their campus group is doing or could do to reduce the impacts of global warming. Campus groups are eligible to win grant funding and the opportunity to be featured in Chill Out: Campus Solutions to Global Warming, a nationwide multi-media broadcast in April 2009.

Entrants will create the video and upload it to www.GoGreenTube.com, a new video sharing site for all things green. GoGreenTube LLC was founded in March 2008 and was launched in June 2008. GoGreenTube strives to be the destination for the world to share and view "Green" online videos that help provide important information about our environment, green technologies, innovations, products, and services so we as governments, corporations, organizations or individuals can "Go Green" using the most effective means possible. National Wildlife Federation and Go Green Tube have partnered together to encourage all students to engage in climate action on campus and to share their stories with the world.

The Chillout competition begins September 1st and the deadline for entries is November 30, 2008. For complete information on the contest and how your school’s contribution to the global warming solution can receive national attention go to www.campuschillout.org.

Press Contacts: Jen Fournelle, 703-438-6002, Fournellej@nwf.org

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Media Coverage

This whole green stuff is starting to catch on. Over the past year we have seen a dramatic increase in green awareness and support, especially in a media sense. One great example and one of the most notable mentions to this would have to be the introduction of “Planet Green” by Discovery channel.

Today I want to bring to your attention a great new media site that was just launched in June. A great resource for green videos on the web and could be quite handy to all you green bloggers out there. The site is called Go Green Tube and the site essentially delivers what is in the name. A source for all videos “green”. Via the website “GoGreenTube strives to be the destination for the world to share and view “Green” online videos that help provide important information about our environment, green technologies, innovations, products, and services so we as governments, corporations, organizations or individuals can “Go Green” using the most effective means possible”. Its a simple idea and very convenient for us green bloggers to have a site that has great videos. As seen above, I never get tired of the Will/George video on global warming.

Really a great site to just watch and learn about anything green. Post, upload, share, just a great way to spread the ever growing green word.

Keep it Green,

Paul

http://www.ecologicliving.ca/