To celebrate Go Green Week 2011, we’ve teamed up with Degree’s Cooler to help run the first ever national student photo competition.
To enter all you have to do is take a photo of yourself and/or friends hugging or loving something within the 4 Degrees Cooler behaviours (recycling, saving energy, less flying, sustainable local food) and submit it using the online form. Hug something you love. It’s simple. To see some of the pics already entered, check out the gallery.
There are some fabulous prizes on offer for the best photos like Glove Love, an eco-friendly BBQ, Flickr Pro Accounts and much more.
Oh also, one lucky winner will get a 6 week-long internship with us at Green Thing.
Join in the fun and take a picture of you hugging something you love, be it your bike, your boyfriend/girlfriend or seasonal asparagus – the possibilities are endless. Enter now!
*Note: The competition is only open for students and staff at universities within the UK but hugging is for everyone. If you’re not a student or staff member at a uni, but you love something so much and want to share it, we’d love to see it (but you won’t be eligible for prizes).
Katherine Hui is currently the Social site editor at Green Thing, a web-based public service in London that inspires people to lead greener lives through creative content.
Before this, she worked as the Development Manager at Social Innovation Camp, an organization that encourages people to use web and mobile-based technology to mobilise social change. She oversaw 300 ideas submission and helped build 20 prototypes – five of which have gone on to get further funding or investment.
Katherine’s came over to the UK form Canada in 2007 for an MSc program at the London School of Economics. Before arriving in London, she managed a small environmental start-up in Vancouver called the Canadian Climate Change Alliance.
Katherine is football mad. She is a loyal supporter of Arsenal FC, plays for Islington Borough Ladies FC and coaches for Gunners in Islington in her spare time. Her second favourite hobby is kite surfing and she can sometimes be found chasing the wind.
