Invent a Pizza for a Cause and Prizes

The earth-friendly* pizza franchise, Pizza Fusion, is holding an Earth Day Video Contest to design their next pie. Along with getting her or his creation on the menu of the restaurant's 16 nationwide locations, the winner will score a trip to an organic and sustainable vineyard, a bike, a year supply of Honest Tea, and gift certificates. Also, some proceeds from Pizza Fusion's Earth Day sales will go to charity.

To enter, you have to upload a short video to YouTube that shows your recipe and explains what makes it a winner. The recipe has to be in line with Pizza Fusion's eco-ethos and use all-natural or organic ingredients. The official rules and entry form are on http://earthdaycontest.com.

The videos will be judged by Pizza Fusion's president, The Next Food Network Star season four winner Aaron McCargo Jr., pizza blogger Craig Agranoff, and me. I am a self-proclaimed pizza maven, or zaven, (and a pro-YouTube watcher) so make your entries top-notch.

Even if you don't win the trip and bike, you'll get to eat the pizza you make for dinner, so that may be a prize unto itself, depending on your oven skills.

*They use organic sauce and other organic ingredients, deliver the pizza in hybrids, offset all their energy use with renewable wind energy certificates, build their restaurants according to LEED standards, and more.

--Michael Singer

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