It’s that time of year again. Time when the Post Code Lottery Green Challenge opens up its applications.
The Postcode Lottery is on the hunt for the best new products and services that will help make a difference in reducing carbon emissions and encouraging people to embrace a greener lifestyle.
For the winning idea there is a €500,000 prize (a serious amount of start-up cash), access to expert mentors and a starting list of potential customers. Second and third place will each walk away with €100,000. Way back in the day, we at Do The Green Thing were finalists in the inaugural Green Challenge, so we can attest that it’s an amazing experience. (Apart, Andy says, from the bit where all finalists were dressed up in weird outfits for strange photoshoot – so we thought we’d dig out his picture for old times’ sake, teehee ;-)
Anyway, previous winners include Eben Bayer, the man who turned mushrooms into sustainable product packaging and Scot Frank, who developed a portable affordable solar device.
Creative? Entrepreneurial? Passionate? Sound like something you’d like to give a go? Find out more here. The deadline isn’t until 29th July 2011 so you’ve got some time to start plotting our your plan to save the the planet.
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.
