News: Big Green Challengers
Today we can announce that we have invited 100 competitors through to the next stage of the Big Green Challenge. We’ve chosen the groups with the most innovative ideas and who we think really stand a chance of reducing CO2 emissions in their communities.
Picking the groups wasn’t easy, and we hope those who aren’t going through to the next stage keep working on their ideas and taking action. Climate change presents us with some big problems. It also presents us with an opportunity to think differently about the ways we organise our lives. If the enthusiasm, commitment and creativity shown by all the Big Green Challenge groups across the UK is anything to go by, we really have a chance of using this opportunity to create postitive change.
Looking through our list of competitors, I hope you’ll find an idea you can be inspired by, or a group to support. All the entrants have the potential to make an important impact on tackling climate change, and anyone supporting the Big Green Challenge will contribute to the success of the projects.
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Hi, I am a climate change scientist. Having carefully reviewed the 100 entrants, it is clear to me that just one entrant stands head and shoulders above the rest. This is the c-Green solutions. They offer a local project that can be run in many schools, but ultimately could solve the bio-fuel world crisis. I believe that your panel has a duty to offer absolute support to c-green simply on the basis that none of the other projects offer carbon capture, solution to producing ethical biofuel and turning deserts into fertilized land - key to solving world poverty! Having looked at the science I can see that this project also uses renewable energy, thus helping it development.
John M Clarkson BA(Hons) MSc
PS. I am fully independent, and I work for a company that has no ties or affiliation with this project.
I agree. The major player is c-green solutions. It combines elements from all of the best things we can do for the planet; producing ethical bio-fuel; in the process capturing carbon; its a self-sustaining system; you can use it to grow nutritious food in the UK as part of your experiments thus helping kids to eat better diets; it uses renewable energy; and clearly its got a way to turn wasteland and desert into fertilized land where a range of crops and bio-fuel can be grown. So its starts in the UK, and through its experiments in schools, it has massive potential to really be the BIG SOLUTION to GLOBAL WARMING and WORLD POVERTY. None of the other entrants come anywhere near this.
Thanks for your interest in the competition, John and Derek. We think that a number of the projects in the shortlist have a realistic chance of creating meaningful carbon reductions in their communities - and the methods used to achieve these vary, from those that make use of science or technology, through to simple but effective behaviour change. The important thing is how the groups engage with their community and achieve meaningful reductions in the year of the Challenge and beyond - it’s not just about ideas, or science, it’s also about people and their ability to turn those ideas into action.
[...] other stuff, it was great to pick up this thread again, and learn that the whole idea is now on an initial shortlist for a £1million NESTA CO2 reduction prize (it’s in the East of England entries). Being a bit of (social, broke) businessman, [...]
Yes, and that’s why c-Green is the best - it’s not just about ideas, or science, it’s also about people and their ability to turn those ideas into action. C-Green offers all of those and encourages the development of land, population education and renewable energy. It’s an amazing package. If the judges of the competition know their stuff, c-Green is the clear winner.
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