APPLICATIONS are invited from individuals, multi-disciplinary teams or community groups for the 2012 annual prize, which has been increased to $100,000 for the winner and $25,000 for each of the two runners-up.
The primary objective of the prize is to find innovative solutions to environmental challenges. And that includes energy.
The solutions should be practical, combining good science, economic reality and political acceptability. The prize offers people from all backgrounds around the world the chance to help transform their environmental ideas into reality and also provides a network of connections and support.
An innovative cookstove, which provides improved air quality and a clean economic source of electricity inside the home, won the St Andrews Prize for the Environment in 2011.
The prize is an environmental initiative by the University of St Andrews in Scotland and ConocoPhillips.
Anyone wishing to enter the 2012 prize should submit a single page project summary of no more than 500 words by 31 October 2011. Full details about the p and how to enter are available from the website www.thestandrewsprize.com.