Seeking submissions for Carbon Neutral Seattle initiative

SEATTLE – As the Seattle City Council moves forward towards defining and implementing carbon neutrality for our whole city, we need your help to creating and achieving a vision.

To start that visioning process we are asking for your ideas for the name and logo that will represent this initiative.

Carbon neutrality is complex and involves a number of topics – energy, land use, transportation, food systems, waste reduction, youth engagement, neighborhood planning, and economic development. More information on the organizing process can be found at http://carbonneutral.seattle.gov/.

To submit your entry

• Please include your name, address, phone number and email with a digital copy of your submission to Carbonneutral@seattle.gov.
• Winners will be announced at the September 14 Carbon Neutral Town Hall at City Hall, 600 4th Ave, Seattle.
• Multiple entries are allowed and encouraged.

Deadline: September 14, 2010

The contest will be scored using the following guidelines:

Name

• Uses language that is positive and dynamic. We are looking for words that describe the effort as active and constructive. Entries may but are not required include the words “carbon neutral.”
• Can be applied to all sectors of the cities carbon neutrality effort, for example: food systems, land use, transportation, energy, and others
• Creativity

Logo

• Graphic ideas should be simple, but expressive
• Graphics should relate to Seattle and the Pacific Northwest region.
• Graphics should relate to the city’s initiative.
• Creativity

Prize

• A hardcover copy of Chris Jordan’s book: Running the Numbers.
• Winning entrants will be given space on the website for a brief biography and publicity of their work.
• Winning entries will be highlighted at the Carbon Neutral Town Hall on September 14.

Please note: All logo entries must be your original work. Artists own all rights to their artwork unless their artwork is chosen as a winner. Submitting an entry gives the City of Seattle permission to promote your entry in any fashion it chooses. If your entry is chosen as the winner, upon receiving your prize you are required to transfer full ownership of the completed design to the City of Seattle. “Transferring” includes royalty-free, irrevocable, exclusive and worldwide rights to use the artwork in any way whatsoever with the exception of the artist retaining the rights to display the work in his/her portfolio or advertising as an example of the work he/she does.