The Brighter Planet Blog

Prizes

• The top 5 entries – 1 in each category – will be awarded an Amazon Kindle DX e-reader and a $100 gift certificate to load it with cookbooks.
• The top sustainable cooking experiences will be featured online by Brighter Planet and partners.
• Random prizes will be awarded to a striking entries of our choice.
• The top entries in each category will receive cooking prizes such as sustainable kitchenware from To-Go Ware and Guyot Designs, EatingWell Magazine subscriptions and cookbooks, and Stonyfield Farms gift baskets.

A special thanks to our friends for their generous prize donations

Why are Kindles the prize for a sustainable cooking contest, you ask?   As our friends at Treehugger reported, the Kindle is actually “greener than the printed word.”  Studies have shown that a Kindle is responsible for 168 kg (370 lbs) of CO2 over its lifetime.  Replacing three physical books a month for four years with Kindle books will save 1,074 kg (2,368 lbs) of CO2.  That’s like preventing 52,000 balloons filled with CO2 from release into the atmosphere.  Plus, keeping books and cookbooks on a Kindle will save space on your shelves.