Thursday, June 11, 2009

Yahoo! Contest for Green DIY Ideas


Think you have the next great green do-it-yourself idea? Submit it to "Yahoo! for Good" (YFG) for voting and you could get paid a $2,500 advance and a generous percentage of sales for up to 20 years. If your idea is chosen, your may see your product idea on store shelves and possibly appear on the PBS TV show Everyday Edisons. Read more details on the contest after the jump.

Challenge: Yahoo! Make It Green

Deadline: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:59PM - Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Details: Dream up ideas that'll green up our planet.

Yahoo! Make It Green and Edison Nation are turning great ideas that improve lives and help our planet into actual products.

Submit your idea, and if it's chosen, you could see your product on store shelves, get $2,500 advance and a share of the sales, and possibly appear on the Everyday Edisons TV show.

Requirements: To maximize the effectiveness of your submission, as well as your chances for selection, you are encouraged to submit tools to help the evaluation process. These include: video of you using/demonstrating the idea, pictures of prototypes/samples, drawings of your idea, etc. Please make it easy for us to understand your idea. And for this search, please include a picture of yourself if possible. (This is for Yahoo!’s purposes - see below.)

Your submission must:
  • Have an innovative ‘good’ element (i.e., saves time, is healthy, makes people happy, brings families together, saves water, reduces waste, reduces hunger, reduces use or impact of harmful chemicals, saves energy, gets people outdoors, etc.)
  • Provide the consumer exceptional value and functionality
  • Be easily understood by the average consumer
See additional details at the contest website.

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