Back in January I wrote about NESTA’s Big Green Challenge - a £1 million prize fund designed to encourage people to work together to find new ways of reducing carbon emissions in their communities. I was a regular contributor to the Big Green Challenge blog from January to March, when initial applications for the Challenge were being invited.

More than 350 applications were submitted for the Big Green Challenge and over the last few months these have been whittled down to just 10 finalists.

The 10 finalists now have 12 months to put their ideas into practice and stake their claim for a share of the prize money! The projects are all inspiring examples of communities and groups of people working together to take action on climate change.

The Big Green Challenge website has details of the finalists’ plans and there’ll be updates on the progress of each finalist on the Big Green Challenge blog over the coming year.