National Sustainable Design
Expo Winners Announced
(Washington,
D.C.) - George Gray, Assistant Administrator for EPA's Office of Research and Development, today
announced the winners of
EPA's 3rd Annual P3 Awards – People, Prosperity, and the Planet. Six student
teams from Appalachian State University, Lehigh University, Northwestern University,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Virginia, and Western
Washington University won the awards by competing at EPA's National Sustainable
Design Expo.
Honorable
Mentions included:
California State Polytechnic University - Pomona, Columbia University,
Cornell University, Duke University, Gonzaga University, Stevens
Institute of Technology, University of Florida, Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, and University of New Hampshire.
These student teams were honored Wednesday evening at the National Academy
of University of Sciences in Washington, D.C., for their innovative designs
for a sustainable tomorrow. Out of a group of 42 teams composed of more
than 350 university students and advisors, these six teams and ten honorable
mentions were chosen for the creativity and utility of their sustainability
designs.
The P3 Award was launched in 2004 to respond to the challenges of the
developed and developing world in moving toward sustainability. This
national competition enables college students to research, develop and
design scientific, technical and policy solutions to sustainability
challenges. Their designs will help achieve the mutual goals of
economic prosperity while providing a higher quality of life and
protecting the planet.
Support for the competition includes 42 partners in the federal
government, industry and scientific and professional societies.
To learn more about P3 and the
competition, visit www.epa.gov/P3.
(Washington,
D.C.) - George Gray, Assistant Administrator for EPA's Office of Research and Development, today
announced the