The Great Big Green Week - 2021 Competition

*ONLINE SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN!* DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL MONDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER

Age 4-14? Have a great big day out that helps the planet!

Win a special edition Eynsham Great Big Green Week Curiosity Box!

Have fun and reduce your carbon emissions!

Plan your great big day out!

• Choose a favourite place
• Choose low carbon ways to travel - boots, bike, boat, bus
• Try some local/vegetarian/vegan food*
• Go zero waste by using recycled/resuable packaging
• Do a planet friendly activity

Get packed and go!

• Celebrate what you have done for the planet last year and think about what you would like to do next year
• Eat, chat, play
• How many species of plant or animal or insect can you identify? **
• Make a record of your day: take photos, videos, make sketches of anything you could use in your competition entry. Note down anything that would have made your day better.

Submit your entry!

• Make a collage, design a poster or video explaining why your day was good for the planet now and for the future.
• Answer the question: If you could give the government and world politicians at COP 26*** one piece of advice to help us stop the climate and ecological emergency, what would it be?
• Complete an entry form here! Online submissions open 3rd August and now close at midnight on Monday 13th September You can upload one or more electronic files (a film, a .pdf, a sound file, or a .jpg) or a picture of what you've created (and we'll be in touch to arrange drop off and pick up of your physical entry, or you can take it to your school on the first day of term). Get in touch if you have any questions or problems with the form.

Winners will be notified on 17th September. There will be age-appropriate prizes kindly put together by The Curiosity Box for KS1, KS2 and KS3 level entries.

A gallery of entries will be displayed and hosted on the Eynsham Great Big Green Week website, at our Great Big Green Week exhibition, and shared on social media from 18-26th September

Have fun and reduce your carbon emissions
Find inspiration at Curiosity Box https://curiosity-box.net/gbgw/

* Try some veggie recipes www.vegsoc.org

** Try Pl@ntNet to identify plants simply by photographing them with your smartphone, BirdNET to identify birds and the Woodland Trust’s Tree IDApp for trees, or iNaturalist for bugs and more

*** The UK will host the United Nations Summit on Climate Change (COP 26) in November and many think it is the most important ever!

CLIMATE CHANGE FACTS

Did you know ... ?

• You only need to reuse a water bottle about 20 times to produce less CO2 than single use bottles
• A portion of beef emits at least 20 x more carbon than beans and lentils and uses 500 x as much water as wheat
• Making and using a petrol car uses 3 x as much CO2 as an electric car, 13 x as much as a bike and 21 x as much as an electric bike (you need less food to cycle an ebike!)
• Last year the UK’s electricity was 47% from renewable energy sources
• Wildflower meadows are an important and reliable carbon sink because they store the carbon in the soil
• Just like bees, wasps are important insects: they pollinate our flowers and food crops and help control crop pests
• 65% of the clothing we wear is made from oil and has double the carbon footprint of cotton. Clothes produce 10 % of annual global carbon emissions, more than all international flights and shipping combined and uses enough water for 5 million people