The Big Green Challenge

The Big Green Challenge is looking for people's best "Eureka moments" for reducing carbon emissions. The top 10 finalists will be given funding to help to turn their ideas into reality. The group with the most imaginative and successful idea will receive the lion's share of the 1m prize money, which will be awarded next year.

The competition, from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and Arts (Nesta), is open to community groups and charities who can come up with a way of reducing carbon emissions by 60 per cent or more. Those finalists will be given 20,000, mentoring and support to put their ideas into practice. They will have to achieve a measurable reduction in carbon emissions, involve the whole group or community and prove their idea can be expanded or copied in different settings.
Applications open on 9 January and initial competition ideas must be submitted by the end of February.

For questions about applying contact admin [at] biggreenchallenge [dot] org [dot] uk.