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The Southern Indiana Renewable Energy Network has launched an Energy Showdown for 2010, offering prizes to Monroe County households that go green this year. All local residents are invited to take the challenge and see if YOU can reduce your energy consumption. Prizes will be awarded at the end of each three-month interval, and the household with the greatest energy savings for the year wins the grand prize, a solar panel photovoltaic system. Contest organizer Jack Urrutia joins us in the studio as our guest this week on EcoReport, a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional people, issues, and events in order to foster open discussion of human relationships with nature and the Earth and to encourage you to take personal responsibility for the world in which we live. Each program features timely eco-related headline news, a feature interview or event recording, and a calendar of events of interest to the environmentally conscious.