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That $100 the province is about to mail you as rebate on its new carbon tax. What are you going to do with it?

After all, the tax is supposed to help put a dent in global warming. So we all have a chance to double down by putting our $100 refund to the same purpose.

If every British Columbian does it, we're talking $400 million for positive action on climate change. Hot!

Which is why The Tyee today is launching Green Your Campbell Cash, a website that:

• Lets you to tell the world about your own climate change project and rally support for it
• Browse lots of cool initiatives and vote for the ones you like best
• Find out how to give financial support to favourite projects
• Post your statement of "commitment" telling your fellow British Columbians how you are investing the $100 in creating a better world

You can do any or all of that by going to Green Your Campbell Cash. While you're there, see what people like Surrey Mayor Diane Watts, union leader George Heyman and award-winning writer John Valliant say they are doing with their $100.

Think of Green Your Campbell Cash as a marketplace allowing people and groups with creative solutions to global warming to showcase their projects. Visitors can look around and vote for the ones they like best (without spending any money). Later in the summer, when the project winds up, The Tyee will award a cash prize to the project that gets the most votes.

Already, so far, various groups from around the province have submitted nine projects to the Green Your Campbell Cash site, included a cargo bike co-op, Beat the Heat backyard festivals to raise awareness of climate change, and a fundraising campaign to build a Burns Bog interpretive centre.

Groups and individuals are invited to submit to the site climate change projects that are geared toward education, advocacy, public engagement, adaptation, emissions reduction or carbon capture. Green Your Campbell Cash will be accepting project submissions until July 15.

Should you decide to donate money to any project on Green Your Campbell Cash, you'll find the info to get you connecting with the project. That's your business, though. Green Your Campbell Cash doesn't involve itself in money transfers. And while The Tyee reviews each project submitted to Green Your Campbell Cash before posting it, we do not endorse or vouch for those projects.

The Tyee created Green Your Campbell Cash in partnership with the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, Voters Taking Action on Climate Change, David Suzuki Foundation, and the Pembina Institute.

We share a belief that taking action collectively on community-based projects can be more powerful than simply going out an buying environmentally friendly light bulbs (not that there's anything wrong with that!).

And now, thanks to our partners, there's a fun place online where we all can gather and show off our great ideas for how to work together to keep the planet cool. Come on in! Visit Green Your Campbell Cash today.