Gardening guru Danny Seo (above left) helps volunteers, Michelle Eichele, William Sterling and Giovanna Leiva (above right) plant a vegetable garden at the Frank White Community Garden in New York on Thursday, April 16, 2009 as part of Campbell's Help Grow Your Soup initiative. (photo by Jim Sulley/Newscast)
Campbell's Help Grow Your Soup Campaign
As part of a national campaign to help grow more than one billion tomatoes in backyards and communities across the country, Campbell's has joined forces with FFA (formerly Future Farmers of America) and Urban Farming (a not-for-profit community gardening association) to work on community gardens in six urban areas throughout April and May. They're also giving away the tomato seeds they use for their famous soups (purchase of one Campbell 's condensed soup is required). If you visit the Campbell's Web site you can request your own seeds and, each time you click on "grow" the company will donate 50 seeds to an FFA chapter.
In March, A&P, which operates 444 supermarkets in 8 states and Washington D.C. launched Green Way, a private label line of 200 affordable eco-friendly products, including bread, pasta and pasta sauces, fresh vegetables, juice, yogurt, frozen pizza, olive oil, salsa, and balsamic vinegar. All Green Way products are made without the use of harmful pesticides, chemicals, or artificial fertilizers, and prices are in fact reasonable with whole wheat spaghetti retailing for $1.99 and pasta sauce at two for $5.00. As part of the Green Way campaign, A&P also introduced reuseable, all-natural cotton canvas bags. Green Way products are available at A&P, SuperFresh, Waldbaum's and select Pathmark stores.
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SunChips and National Geographic's Green Effect Initiative
Sun Chips is teaming with National Geographic to award $20,000 grants to five individuals or groups with the best ideas for green change. The contest runs from today through June 8. Ten finalists will receive Flip cameras, and the five top ideas will be awarded $20,000 to help make them happen. (The winners will also be profiled in National Geographic and go to Washington D.C. to present their ideas to environmental leaders). To enter, submit a short essay detailing your idea. (You can also include up to four photographs and/or one video.) For more information, including the official rules, go to the Green Effects Web site.
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