Winner’s circle: Congratulations to our 2009 TD FEF $100,000 Go Green Challenge winners!

University of British Columbia (UBC) students serve up a fresh cup of "Sustainabili-Tea" at UBC Farm to celebrate their winning TD FEF $100,000 Go Green Challenge submission. From left: Jessica Cho, UBC Student/Go Green Winner; Mike Pride, District Vice President, TD Canada Trust; Queenie Bei, UBC Student/Go Green Winner; Brent Skura, Associate Dean, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, UBC.

TD FEF $100,000 Go Green Challenge winners Hilary Booth and Peter Schnurr from University of Western Ontario accept their cheque for their winning submission, “Sustainable Food and Energy Production: Closing the loop from farm field waste.”

Bein’ green was easy for the winners of the third-annual TD FEF $100,000 Go Green Challenge, our national competition that invites university and college teams to share proposals and ideas that could have a positive environmental impact on communities. A total of 124 teams, representing 329 students from 45 Canadian universities and colleges, submitted proposals on how to address this year’s theme, “Reducing Canada’s ecological footprint.”

The four winning teams, each of which receive a $25,000 cash prize, are:

• Queenie Bei and Jessica Cho, University of British Columbia — UBC Farm Sustainabili-Tea;
• Aileen Zubriski and Kathryn Voroney, University of Manitoba — Uncovering Water: Exposing the storm water system through sustainable design;
• Mariane Maltais-Guilbault and Nicolas Vincent, Université de Sherbrooke — Estomper son empreinte pas à pas / Softening our footprint — one step at a time;
• Peter Schnurr and Hilary Booth, University of Western Ontario — Sustainable Food and Energy Production: Closing the loop from farm field waste.