The ten finalists of NESTA's Big Green Challenge includes The Big Green School Bus project from St Bede's Catholic High School in Lytham, Lancashire. The Green School Bus will cut down on pupils' individual journeys by providing shared transportation, which in itself will help the school become carbon neutral. But the bus will have other uses. It will have solar roof panels which can power laptop and phone/iPod chargers inside. Using these solar-powered chargers for mobile phones alone could reduce each pupils carbon footprint by 8kg a year plus the further reductions from using solar-powered laptop chargers. The bus will also run on biofuel.
The project explicitly targets CO2 emissions, but it will do much more than that. It will be a learning project, bringing pupils and the whole community together to increase their understanding of environmental issues.
To find out more about the Green School Bus and details of the other finalists see www.biggreenchallenge.org.uk/finalists |
