The state of the environment around us is affected by many of our daily decisions, ranging from what we eat to how we travel or heat our homes. Some of our day-to-day decisions are made with the intention of minimising negative impacts on the environment, and consequently on our health. What are the small or big actions you take to help the environment? Share your actions so they can be a source of inspiration for others.   

Although green actions can be taken in almost every aspect of our lives, the video competition ‘I LIVE GREEN’ would like to focus on the following four areas:

1. Sustainable food

Nutritious food is essential for a healthy life. Food production requires valuable resources like land and water. Pesticides and fertilisers in agriculture can have an impact on soil and ground water. Certain dietary choices and habits, such as how much meat we consume or how creative we are with leftover food, can play a role in ensuring that resources are not wasted and that we exert less pressure on the environment.

2. Clean air

Air pollutants are released as a result of many different activities, from transport to agriculture. Our preference for public transport, cycling or walking, car-sharing or opting for an electric car instead of a petrol or diesel car can certainly help improve air quality, and also boost the quality of life in our city.

3. Clean water

Our water resources are under a number of pressures, including over-extraction, climate change and pollution from different sources like agriculture and urban wastewater, impacting not only our health but also marine life. Plastic shopping bags, facial scrubs and toothpaste containing micro-plastics can all end up in our seas and harm marine animals.

4. Minimal waste

All the products we buy have a limited lifespan. There are innovative ways to reduce the amount of discarded products we send to landfills. At best, some products can be leased and shared with others, while others can be repaired and/or re-used for different purposes. Or, different types of materials can be recycled in a way to be used in new products.

Submissions closed on 31 March 2018 at 23:59 (CET).
Finalists will be announced on this page on 1 May 2018.

Competition partners

The competition has been initiated by and developed in collaboration with:

• ISPRA (The Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research)

Official partners include:

• Estonian Environment Agency
• CENEAM/MAPAMA (National Centre of Environmental Education/Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment, Spain)
• Environmental Protection Agency of Montenegro
• Portuguese Environment Agency
• Kosovo Environmental Protection Agency, Kosovo under the UN SCR 1244/99
• German Environment Agency
• Environment Agency Austria
• Environmental portal of Wallonia
• Executive Environment Agency, Bulgaria
• Slovak Environment Agency
• CENIA (Czech Environmental Information Agency)
• Ministry of Agriculture, Hungary
• Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre
• Chief Inspectorate for Environmental Protection, Poland
• National Environmental Agency, Albania
• Ministry of Environment & Energy, Greece
• Defra, UK

Competition details

Prizes

The winners in each category (Sustainable food, Clean air, Clean water, and Minimal waste) will be awarded a cash prize of EUR 1000, while EUR 500 is on offer for the finalist who wins the Public Choice Award.

Copyrights

The copyright of the materials submitted for this competition remains with the respective participants. However, each entrant grants the EEA and its European partners the right to use the submitted materials in its environmental communication – both digital and print – crediting the copyright owners. 

Selection process

The EEA will appoint a pre-selection committee consisting of communication and environment experts that will select 30-50 finalists. These will then be submitted to an external jury to be composed of environmental communication experts from across Europe will determine the winners, with the exception of the Public Choice Award. 

For the Public Choice Award, the finalist entries put forward by the pre-selection committee will be open for a public vote from 1 May to 31 May 2018. 

The winners will be notified by email and the official announcement of the winners will follow on 5 June 2018, the World Environment Day. 

The EEA will also use a number of competition entries to produce the final video spot that will be published in 2019.

Timetable

Contact

If you have any questions about the competition, please send us an email.

Links

• Competition Rules
• Terms and Conditions
• Specific privacy statement
• Submission form