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The competition

The competition was launched in the UK in June 2007 and has now closed.

240 entries came in from all over the country with some fantastic ideas to tackle climate change.

 
Prizes

The best ideas were selected by an expert judging panel:

Lucy Seigle, Observer Ethical Correspondent

David de Rothschild, Adventure Ecology

Kate Smith, Climate Challenge Fund, DEFRA

Brendan Fogarty, Environment Manager, SEGRO

Ideas were also voted by you, with a prize awarded to the idea most popular with peers.

 
 
 

The prizes include:

A green makeover for your school

A school green makeover

Congratulations to Stuart English and his school, Samuel King's in Cumbria!

Stuart won the top prize for his school to have a green makeover.

The school will be visited by a team of specialists who will help design and fit measures, such as renewable energy, to help the school become a leader in carbon friendly learning.

Prize kindly sponsored by:

SEGRO - Slough Estates Group

The Winners

THE WINNERS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

Most popular project as voted by peers
With a massive 1299 votes
Jack Wieland, aged 13 from Westbourne House School, Chichester, in the South East
Winning Idea: 'Everyone at school should remind each other to switch their computers off standby at the end of the day to save energy.'
He won a trip for his class to visit the Eden Project in Cornwall.

Best in 7-9 age group category
Habbib Bhatti, from Small Heath School, Birmingham
Idea: 'Encourage pupils to bike to school to save carbon emissions and improve health.'
Prize: Trip to Sherwood Forest with group of friends for a specially designed day at Sherwood Forest with Robin Hood kindly organised by the Sherwood Forest Trust.

Best in 10-12 age group category
Melanie Ozcan, from Cleveland in the North East
Idea: To change all the school lights to energy saving bulbs and have a light monitor for each class to turn off the lights when the room is empty.
Prize: A day for the winner and her class at Adventure Ecology HQ for arts and environmental education

Best in 13-14 age group category
Jamie Wright, from Wales

Idea: To have child friendly cycle paths to schools and shops
Prize: Visit to a farm organised by Farm Fresh Express

Overall runner up from age group categories
Redmond Coulter aged 11, London

Idea: A solar panelled green house to create light from plants at night
Prize: An local food hamper from Farm Fresh Express

Runner up
Naomi Rennocks aged 11, Castle Rock High School, East Midlands
Idea: To install solar power for every street light
Prize: A local food hamper kindly donated by Farm Fresh Express

 
RSA Tesco an RSA & TESCO project
 

The age group with the lowest average emission is 7-9 (0.152 tonnes per week)

 
 

The region with the lowest emission is NorthWest (0.006 tonnes per week)

 
 

The average individual emissions per week are 0.175 tonnes of CO2.