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Show off your water-smart landscapes!

Posted Mon, 2013/02/11 - 4:16pm by RCAP

Are you a green thumb with a knack for saving blue? If so, Facebook and Instagram aren't the only places where you can show off your water-saving landscape projects. WaterSense's Water-Smart Landscape Photo Contest invites home and business owners, landscape designers, irrigation professionals, and anyone else committed to saving water to submit snapshots of landscapes from any time of the year - including past years - that demonstrate how water-smart practices can be both beautiful and efficient.

Water is focus of writing and arts contest

Posted Wed, 2012/02/01 - 12:01pm by RCAP

EPA invites the public to submit creative projects to the 6th annual Rachel Carson intergenerational “Sense of Wonder” contest.  There are four categories: photography, essay, poetry and dance.  This year, in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, the contest will focus on a “Sense of Water.”  Contest submissions are encouraged to focus on the various properties of water – how it sounds, feels, tastes and looks – and what water means to the entrants.

NARA and EPA launch Documerica-inspired student multimedia contest

Posted Wed, 2011/11/02 - 9:48am by RCAP

'Document Your Environment' contest runs through January 6, 2012

WASHINGTON – The National Archives, in collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has announced the launch of a student multimedia contest, “Document Your Environment”.  Drawing inspiration from a collection of environmental photos from the 1970s, this contest invites students ages 13 to 18 college and graduate students to create any type of graphic art, a short video, or a poem using a Documerica photo as a prompt.  The grand prize for this contes