Green it Forward.org started as a two person project, a cross-country road trip where we would go to each state and interview people who are somehow making the planet a better place. Our goal was to profile a cross range of folks--from the kids in New Orleans Ninth Ward who are building community gardens to the Detroit team who engineered the Nissan Leaf to the Mormon housewife in Utah who makes braided rugs from recycled shopping bags.We were interested in anything green, anyone who is mastering reuse-renew-recycle, anyone who people can learn from.

Our goal was to combine non-profit journalism with environmental education and offer up blogs, essays, podcasts, videos, Flickr photos, Facebook and Twitter posts.

But our plans have changed and our tagline, which currently reads "One year. Two Journalists. 48 States. A greener Planet" is transitioning to " Many Journalists. One year. 50 States. A greener Planet"

And we're now looking for writers to cover these kinds of stories in their own communities. If we can't make it to New York or Texas or Minnesota, we want writers who are there to tell GreenItForward readers all about it.

Before you ask, there is no money. We got no funding for this project and we haven't been selling ads on the site. We consider it a labor of love and hopefully a place for writers can place stories that means something to them that they can't get placed in mainstream media. If for some reason we get one of our grants to come through, we'll compensate everyone who has contributed to the site BUT that's a big "if" and we don't want anyone to plan for that.

If you're still interested, send me a list of 1 to 3 articles you'd like to write for GreenItForward.org, along with a link to any clips so I get a sense of your style and tone. If you have completed articles in the can or reprints available, feel free to send them, just let me know if or where they've appeared previously.

We generally have 3 types of articles:
Profiles which are 300 to 800 words, include quotes from the subject of the piece (e.g. Philly activist makes recycled art)
Informational pieces, which are 200 words and up (e.g. Scientists say eco-roofs could cut carbon emissions by 10%)
How-to articles, which are open ended on length but must walk you through doing or making something (e.g. how to build your own compost bin)

We want clean, clear writing, first person is acceptable in some cases, and slightly colloquial is also OK depending on the context. Absolutely no plagiarism (no giant lifted passages from Wikipedia, for example).