While a man sleeps, his feet grow to a gigantic size due to the carbon footprint of his home. The Green Ninja - a climate action superhero, is called in to help.

Earth Hour 2012 Video Competition: are you interested in making a video with an environmental theme? Contact Peter Hill peter.hill@selwyn.govt.nz for information.

Hints and Tips for kids making videos.

Kea Award for Outstanding Film-making (Overall Winner): Rolleston School E-Monitors –with their directors chair!

The purpose of all the Earth Hour events, of course, was to celebrate the many paths that we can take toward being more environmentally sustainable. That’s why, at each event, people were invited to enter the “beyond the hour” Prize Draw by pledging to follow one or more energy-saving activities for the year.

Congratulations to these lucky winners, who each get a $50 voucher from Lincoln New World: Taylor Hamlin, Lily White, Niki Dow and Alina Harris.

Congratulations too, to our Earth Hour Video Awards winners who each received a Dick Smith Electronics voucher. The overall winner also gets the coveted Kea Award for a year plus their own named director’s chair - forever. The winners were:

Kea Award for Outstanding Film-making (Overall Winner):
 Rolleston School E-Monitors

Category Winners ($75)
Martin Langlands (All-comers)
Taylor Hamlin & Kusal Ekanayake (Secondary level)
Rolleston School E-Monitors (Primary level)

Runners-up ($50)
Samantha Crossman (Secondary level)
Room 2, Burnham School (Primary level)

Special Awards ($25)
Alicia & Christian Smith (Most Informative)
Kidsfirst Kindergartens Lincoln (Most Inventive)
Geena Hanson (Biodiversity Awareness)

The LET kidsfest event was a great success and we had lots of helpers, 7 Lincoln High School students, plus a teacher, as well as Noelani Velesquez, Iana Stoliarova, Pauline Jarvis, Matthew and Katherine Hadler. We had about 30 children and about 17 caregivers. They came from as far afield as Rakaia, Little River, Springfield, Leeston, Prebbleton, Rolleston and a number from Lincoln. The caregivers also joined in the activities! People made elephants from milk bottles, beads from magazines, baskets from newspaper, Chinese lanterns, Japanese origami cranes and Maori poi. The younger children coloured in pictures of endangered animals from around the world. Thank you to Lincoln New World for donating magazines.

The 2011 Youth Leadership for Sustainability Awards are a joint initiative between Environment Canterbury and Ngai Tahu recognising awareness of environmental and social issues among Canterbury’s youth.

 The awards were presented to students recently at Lincoln Event Centre by Environment Canterbury Chair of Commissioners Dame Margaret Bazley and Ngai Tahu Kaiwhakahaere Mark Solomon.

 The individual award was open to students in Years 12-13 and recognises their work in sustainability, either through their own initiative or by supporting or leading a wider project. The group award celebrates the contribution of a team of young people be they in a school group or involved in another youth organisation.  Individual Category: Year 12 or 13.

Matthew Young, Lincoln High School (and member of LET) gained first place.
 

Dame Margaret Bazley and Matthew Young

The gear and help were provided by Lincoln University’s Waterwatch team.

Kidsfirst Lincoln Kindergarten working on their plot