Know Your Number: The Scoreboard - who is doing well?

Task 5: Eco-Holiday

Our contestants were challenged to devise and eco-holiday based in Ireland as the fifth task in our Know Your Number competition. They had to ensure they kept the carbon number to a minimum while planning a holiday that won't compromise on fun and relaxation.

Each contestant is asked to plan a complete three day holiday to a destination within Ireland, at least 50 miles from their home in the most eco-friendly manner possible. Judging of this task will primarily concern itself with transport to the holiday destination, ‘eco-friendliness’ of activities, transport to activities and initiative shown in contestants holiday planning. Initiative should be clearly displayed in planning six different activities. Contestants are asked to record details in a Microsoft Word document (or hand written) using the headings shown below as a template, which may be expanded upon.

The Know Your Number judges will have the final determination with regard to the marks allocated to each contestant.

Trevor Gleeson won the task, he joined us with our judge Davy Phillip and John Kilcannon of Failte Ireland joined Matt on Friday to talk about the task, have a listen back here.

06 February: BER Feature

Mairead and Trevor have had BER assesments (audio) done to their homes we found out about the process and their results.

Task 4: Green Christmas

Did you have a good christmas? Our contestants were challenged to have a green christmas. In January we caught up with them to find out how it went. Listen here.

Task 3: Green Shopping

Unfortunately Larry lost the task and becomes the first eliminated contestant from the Know your Number challenge. Listen back to the final result and the elimination.

Dont forget you can win a Wattson too!

The green shopping task is the third task for our contestants and will finish with an elimination in early December!

Each contestant is asked to shop within a budget of €35 and is asked to purchase the items from the shopping list provided in the most sustainable manner possible. Judging of this task will primarily concern itself with transport to the point of purchase, origin of the product and product packaging. The Know Your Number judges will have the final determination with regard to the marks allocated to each item purchased by the contestant.

Green Shopping list (10 items) – Budget €35 - can you do it?

Bread – can be a loaf, batch, sliced/unsliced

2 litres Milk

5 pieces/portions of fruit

500g minced beef

1 large whole chicken

5kg potatoes

1 pack of biscuits

6 eggs

500ml washing up liquid

8 rolls toilet paper

TASK TWO: KNOW YOUR NUMBER QUIZ

A quickfire quiz based on educational material given to the contestants at our Bootcamp was conducted here in the Todayfm studios. All of our contestants had been busy swotting up on the effects of climate change on the environment over the last few weeks. Listen back:

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The quiz questions were based on factual information from the Al Gore documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, a book by George Marshall, Carbon Detox Your step by step guide to getting real about climate change, The Change.ie website, The Contestants Prescription for Change and The Wattson, a clever device that monitors the energy usage in your home.

Round one of the Quiz was conducted off-air where Larry, Trevor, Mairead, Fiona and Enda (one of Ger Eagars flatmates) battled it out answering some tough questions set by our Judges.

Mairead 4

Larry 2

Trevor 3

Fiona 2

Enda 4

Out of a possible 5 questions

Mairead and Enda went forward to the next round live on programme. Listen back to the nailbiting final here:

 Round Two: Final

Contestant Score (Out of a possible 5 questions)

Mairead 4

Enda 5

Enda was the clear winner, answering all five questions correctly. Congratulations to all of the lads in Shannon!

TASK ONE

Multiple choice questions asked at our bootcamp held in the Cultivate Centre in Templebar:

Out of a possible 17 questions: