Sustainability Hacks
Share your innovative and inventive tips and tricks for eco-friendly living.
Prizes
- Grand prize:
- $1,000
- Second place:
- $500
- Third place:
- $250
Status
CompletedTimeline
Submissions opened
Aug 07, 2020
Submissions closed
Aug 14, 2020 3:59 AM CUT
Results
Aug 18, 2020
Prizes
- Grand prize:
- $1,000
- Second place:
- $500
- Third place:
- $250
Status
CompletedTimeline
Submissions opened
Aug 07, 2020
Submissions closed
Aug 14, 2020 3:59 AM CUT
Results
Aug 18, 2020
About this challenge
We want to hear what you're doing to make a change. Yes, that's right—we're calling on you, our community of creators, to share your most inventive and innovative sustainability hacks. It's no surprise that younger generations are asking older ones to step up and make a change in a lifestyle that for years has caused quite a bit of harm to our planet. So, we want Vocal+ members to come together and share sustainable alternatives to your everyday activities. Are you an avid secondhand shopper? Have you started (and loved) meatless Mondays? Have you switched to eco-friendly cleaning products for your home? Anything and everything counts! Enter the Sustainability Hacks Challenge and share the creative ways in which you're doing your part to help take care of our planet.
How to enter
For your story to be eligible, it must be between 600 and 5,000 words and adhere to our Community Guidelines. Stories published on Vocal and entered into the contest up until August 13, 2020, at 11:59 PM EST will be entered for consideration. Official Rules for the Challenge can be found here.
The Sustainability Hacks Challenge is exclusive to Vocal+ members. To learn more and upgrade to Vocal+ visit https://vocal.media/vocal-plus.
To be eligible to win the grand prize, second place, or third place prizes, you must be over the age of 13 and residing in a country where Stripe is available at the time of entry. A complete list of countries where Stripe is available can be found here—winners will need to have a Stripe account created and connected in order to receive the prizes. For this reason, entrants located outside of any of these 35 countries will not be eligible to win.
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Creator Dane BH is one of our Vocal stalwarts. We’re so grateful to all of your in our Vocal community, and so thrilled by your achievements. This is the third time Dane has won one of our challenges, and she appears too on our Vocal podcast, Write Here, Write Now — take a listen if you haven’t already. But she’s not our winner because we know her: the subtlety and simplicity of we watched the world go dark. together. is what made it our winner of the In Eclipse challenge, with the grace and ease of its lines and observation. As it happens it also expresses the community spirit that means so much to us.
Vocal Curation TeamPublished 4 days ago in ResourcesWhispering Woods Challenge Winners
Congratulations to Morgan Christy Rickards for their winning Whispering Woods story, Guardian at the Gate. Morgan has been a Vocal creator since February 2021, and this is their first time placing in Challenge — well done, starting with a win! Guardian at the Gate draws evocatively from Welsh tales of the Cantre'r Gwaelod, a lost sunken kingdom between the forest and the sea. Heledd’s dangerous adventure pulls her towards the water but her spirit is anchored in the woods: Morgan’s writing is atmospheric and exciting.
Vocal Curation TeamPublished about a month ago in ResourcesSnacktime Sonata Challenge Winners
Well, your Snacktime Sonatas made us hungry, and that’s about the highest compliment we have. Food — taste, smell, sensation — is a powerful conduit to the past, to memories pleasurable and painful and sometimes bittersweet, a mixture of comfort and challenge. Congratulations to Penny Fuller for Sativa — it’s a first win for Penny — a hymn to the “secret, unbounded/freedoms” of fresh peas in the pod. The narrative voice of the poem doesn’t really want to be outside, but finds joy in the green things of the earth; this is a lovely work of resilience.
Vocal Curation TeamPublished about a month ago in Resources