Ethos Public Relations Manchester

Save energy and win prizes with new monthly e-newsletter

by Ethos public relations

To help celebrate Energy Saving Week (25-31 October), Greener Together – the co-operative way is launching a new monthly e-newsletter packed full of competitions and incentives as well as handy tips to help those signed up to the project save even more energy and live greener.

“The Green Me newsletter is designed to help our ‘pioneers’ do even more great things to save energy and live in a more sustainable way,” said Michelle Lockwood, manager of Greener Together, an initiative run by Co-operatives UK.

“Each month, we will be asking our pioneers what they are doing to live a greener lifestyle and each month, we will have differently themed competitions and will be looking for the co-operative (Pioneers of the month) where winners will receive cash prizes, for collectively, being the most green.”

The Green Me competitions will include prizes for the best video or short story submitted by pioneers illustrating what they have been doing as part of Greener Together and prizes for pioneers of the month that have collectively saved the most CO2. A two-minute video can be posted on the new Greener Together YouTube account or pioneers can submit a 250-word short story which fits the monthly theme. Both winners will be featured for one month on the Greener Together website.

The video with the most hits will win £50 and the winning short story will receive £25. And the co-operative that has saved the most CO2 and reduction to landfill on waste, will win a prize worth £30.

Greener Together – the co-operative way helps co-operatives make a significant impact on climate change, and reduce their environmental impact in the three key areas of energy, waste and personal transport.

Part of the Greener Living Fund, sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the project aims to help people to live in a more sustainable way, by focusing on the small actions every individual can take in their daily lives and enables member organisations of Co-operatives UK, the Confederation of Co-operative Housing (CCH) and the Plunkett Foundation to work with their members and customers in achieving greener behaviour.

To find out more about Greener Together, visit the website at www.greenertogether.coop.

Posted at 20^th October 2010