Throughout the month of April, 2009, we featured the videos you created. In honor of Earth Day on April 22, we asked you to share your videos that inspire others to proetect the environment.
Here is all the information for how the 2009 Earth Day video project was conducted. While we are no longer featuring videos, you are welcome to continue to share your videos on the YouTube groups.
What do you do to reduce your carbon footprint? Can you swim or play in the water near your home? What have you done to improve the environment in your home, school or workplace? Americans are getting involved in protecting our environment – please share your experience with the world! Your video can be instructional, inspirational, or testimonial. We’re looking for videos that call others to action.
Your video might be funny or serious, entertaining or educational, quirky or enlightening. We don’t expect you to enter television quality videos, we want you to share your stories.
You can be a citizen of any country, living anywhere. As long as you're 13 or older, you're welcome to enter. Children under 13 are not permitted to access YouTube, so if you're younger than that, please ask your parent, guardian, or teacher to enter your video. Your classroom can enter a video, your workplace can enter a video, the project is not restricted in any way.
Other than that, the only people who can't enter are the EPA selection committee members who are choosing the videos to feature during the Earth Day month of April.
You can enter starting now and throughout the month of April.
The project runs on YouTube.com, a video sharing site, to encourage participation and provide maximum public access. We don’t prefer YouTube.com over any other video sharing site, but because it has such a big audience, this year we’re using that site.
To enter your video:
You control your own videos on your YouTube account and can decide whether you accept comments.
We “approve” your submission before we let other people see it in the group. Be sure your video is appropriate and on topic before entering it to the group. Please see our rules.
Do your best to show the categories. Make the selection team see the connection.
Feel free to...
By entering your videos, you agree to all of the above. We reserve the right to disqualify videos for any reason.
One per category.
We will review the videos submitted to the group and feature those that do a great job of teaching and inspiring us to protect the environment. Your videos might be funny or serious, entertaining or educational, quirky or enlightening. We’ll feature videos throughout the month of April.
No. You’re welcome to see the videos submitted to the group (link to group page). You only need to have a YouTube account if you plan to enter a video to the project.
You will need a YouTube account to submit a video. You can get a free account quickly and easily.
You don't need an account to simply browse through the entries.
By submitting videos, you give the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) permission to feature them on any page on the epa.gov Web site. This permission includes, but is not limited to, EPA Web sites and our intranet. You will not be compensated for such use. However, where reasonable, we will give you credit for the videos.
By entering your videos, you agree to all of the above.