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Agriculture
- An Innovative System for Bioremediation of Agricultural Chemicals for Environmental Sustainability
- Comparison of an Engine Operated on Canola Based Biodiesel to an Engine Operated on Petroleum Diesel
- Development of a Method to Convert Green and Animal Wastes to a Useful Agricultural Product with Possible Alternative Fuel Use
- Farm to College: Reducing Food Miles through Direct Purchases
- Harvesting Rooftop Runoff from RDP Housing in South Africa: A Pragmatic Approach to Supplement Water Supply While Reducing Flooding, Soil Erosion, and Disease
- Higher Performance Solar Crop Dryer Kit for Developing Economies
- Low-cost Pheromone Traps and Insect-Resistant Tomatillos (Physalis philadelphica Lam.): Sustainable Tools to Achieve Reduction in Pesticide Use and Diminish Herbivore Damage
- Sustainability of Chadron Creek Watershed
- Sustainable Water Extraction and Distribution System for Agricultural Applications in the Namawanga Community, Kenya
Built Environment
- An Innovative Paradigm: Green Retrofitting Residential Buildings
- Architecture as Pedagogy: Interdisciplinary Design and Creation of a Carbon Neutral Idaho Environmental Learning Center at the University of Idaho McCall Field Campus
- Beyond Green Buildings: An Integrated Holistic Design Approach
- City in a Box: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Living
- Comprehensive Plan for a Sustainable Urban Watershed
- Developing and Assessing the Impact of a Socio-Technological Resource-Use Feedback System for Improving the Environmental Performance of Buildings and Institutions
- Development and Modeling of Reactive Building Systems: Climate and Illumination
- Development and Monitoring of a Sustainable Affordable Housing Community in Southwest Florida Gulf Coast University
- Development, Design and Consumer Testing of Marketable Residential LED Light Luminaires
- Fostering Sustainability: Designing a Green Science Building at a Small Maine College
- From Brownfields to Green Streets - A Proposal to Develop a Multi-Agency Collaborative Decision-Making Process for Solving Small Scale Brownfield Urban Redevelopment Issues
- Healthy and Energy-Efficient Housing in Hot and Humid Climates: A Model Design
- Paving the Way to a “Greener” Campus: Alternative Paving Materials for Pollution Control and Aesthetic Appeal
- Place-Based Green Building: Integrating Local Environmental and Planning Analysis into Green Building Guidelines
- Production of Natural Plastics in Wastewater Treatment
- Reducing the Waste Stream: Bringing Environmental, Economical, and Educational Composting to a Liberal Arts College
- Smart Growth: Infill Development Along a Multilane Transit Corridor
- Smart Windows for Smart Buildings
- Sustainable Housing at Pine Ridge Reservation
- Sustainable Modular Panelized System: Reinventing the Building Industry
- Sustainable Overlay District (SOD) Methodology
- The Boone Bicycle Initiative: A Community Based Project to Promote Bicycles as an Alternative Mode of Transportation
- The Cast Paper Dome; An Opportunity to Develop New Materials and Construction Techniques for Sustainable Building
- The Evergreen Roof Project: Standards, Methods and Software for Evaluating Living Roof Systems
- The Learning Barge: Environmental + Cultural Ecologies on the Elizabeth River
- Transforming the University Campus into a Sustainable Community: An Evaluation of Land Use, Smart Growth, and Sustainability at the University of Michigan
- Treatment and Reuse of Urban Storm Water with a Customized Constructed Wetland
- Using An "Impervious Permit" Allowance System To Reduce Impervious Surface Coverage for Environmental Sustainability
- Zero Net Energy Homes Project
- Multi-faceted Sustainability on Ithaca College Natural Lands
- Tar Creek Superfund Site Remediation: Combined Roles for Biomass, Poultry Litter, Fly Ash and Flu Gas Desulfurization Residues
- Protecting Surface Water Quality Through Utilization of Industrial By-Products to Reduce Nutrient Transport in Sensitive Agriculture-Dominated Ecosystems
- A Tool for Sustainability: Measuring Outcomes with Indicators of Ecosystem Health
- A Novel Reactor Design for Efficient Production of Biodiesel from High Free-Fatty-Acid Oils
- Biomethane for Transportation
- End Hierarchical Links Accurate Building Integrated Photovoltaic System (BIPV) Architectural Design Tool
- Adoption of Alternative Energy Sources in Chico, CA: Facilitating an Action Plan
- Capstone Senior Design - Supramolecular Proton Exchange Membranes for Fuel Cells
- Catching the Wind: A Low Cost Method for Wind Power Site Assessment
- Community-Scale Biodiesel: An Affordable, Renewable Resource
- Conversion of Wind Power to Hydrogen Fuel: Design of an Alternative Energy System for an Injection Molding Facility
- Demonstrating the Feasibility of a Biofuel: Production and Use of Biodiesel from Waste Oil Feedstock and Bio-based Methanol at Middlebury College
- Design and Development of a Low Cost, Multifunction, Regionally Appropriate Solar Oven for Developing Countries in Latin America
- Design and Testing of a Point of Use Electrolytic Chlorine Generator for Drinking Water Disinfection in Poor Countries
- Design of an Anaerobic Digester and Fuel Cell System for Energy Generation from Dairy Waste
- Development Plan of a Sustainable Micro Hydro Power Plant and Distribution System for Tribal Village Cluster in Rural India
- Energy Management Innovation in the US Ski Industry
- Green Engineering to Reduce the Use of Petroleum Energy Resources. Phase I. Use of Sustainable Sources of Feed Stocks for the Production of Biodiesel Fuel – An Undergraduate Educational Program
- Innovative Biodiesel Production: A Solution to the Scientific, Technical, and Educational Challenges of Sustainability
- Keene Community Partnership for a Closed Loop Biodiesel System
- Manufacture of Photovoltaic Solar Cell Using Plant Chlorophyll
- Novel Ru-Ni-S Electrode Catalyst for PEMFC
- Photocrosslinked Immobilization of Polyelectrolytes for Template Assisted Enzymatic Polymerization of Conjugated Polymers
- Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production Prototype
- Pollution Reduction and Resources Saving Through the Use of Waste Derived Gas for Fueling a High Temperature Fuel Cell
- Power Generation Using Megnetohydrodynamic Generator with a Circulation Flow Driven by Solar-Heat-Induced Natural Convection
- Renewable Energy for the RiverSphere
- Sewage Off-Gas-Driven Fuel Cells to Stimulate Rural Electrification
- Small-Scale Fuel Alcohol Production to Meet University Vehicle Fuel Needs and Promote Regional Sustainable Development
- Solar Lighting for Remote Rural Communities
- Solar Photovoltaic and Wastewater Treatment Systems Design for Communities in Panamá
- Standalone “Green” Community-Center Buildings: Hydrogen Generation/Storage/Delivery System for when Primary Energy Storage is at Capacity
- Sustainable Biofuels Systems for Undeveloped Regions
- Sustainable Energy Systems Design for a Tribal Village in India
- The Affordable Bioshelters Project: Testing Innovative Technologies, Working to Make High Performance Solar Greenhouses Cost Competitive
- The Wind Energy Research Program (WERP): Design and Construction of a Wind Turbine to Facilitate Education and Research in Sustainable Technologies
- Wind Power from Kites: Low-Cost, Sustainable Energy for Developing Nations
- Zero Waste Biodiesel: Using Glycerin and Biomass to Create Renewable Energy
- AWARE@home: Profitably Integrating Conservation into the American Home
- AWARE: Facilitating Informed Consumer Purchasing Decisions through Point-of-Sale Access to Product Sustainability Information
- Creating a Sustainable Project Dashboard
- Greening Standards for Green Structures: Process and Products
- Improving Public Awareness of Chemical Exposure Issues through a 3-D Online Environmental Education Game
- Biotemplating of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles for the Green Production of Photochemically Active Catalysts: Synthesis, Characterization, and Photocatalytic Evaluation
- Developing an Integrated Biomass Processing Plan for Wayne and Stark Counties, Ohio
- Eco-Friendly Golf Tees Filled with Corn-Based DDGS
- Eco-Wall Systems: Using Recycled Material in the Design of Commercial Interior Wall Systems for Buildings
- Encouraging Toxic Use Reduction in Academic Laboratories
- Engineering the Biosynthesis of Styrene in Yeast
- From Field to Fuel Tank: Exploring the Implementation of Biodiesel as a Sustainable Alternative to Petroleum Diesel in Oregon's Willamette Valley
- Improving Resource Recovery of Organic Waste to Alleviate Environmental and Economic Problems in a Depressed Urban Environment
- Nanostructured Material Design for Mercury, Arsenic, and Selenium Capture
- P3 Design of a National Electronics Product Reuse and Recycling System
- P3 Design Project for an Interdisciplinary Team of Graduate Students: Development of Appropriate, Sustainable Construction Materials
- Phosphorus Recovery from Sewage
- Scrap Tire Recycling: Convincing Businesses to Integrate Inexpensive, Cutting-edge Technology to Convert Tires Into Various Construction Materials
- Social Feasibility of Energy-Efficiency Retrofits and Educational Campaigns for Sustainable Energy Use in Pre-existing College Residence Halls
- Sustainable Plastics: Designing and Demonstrating Renewable, Biodegradable Products Made of Soy Protein-based Plastics
- Synthesis and Characterization of a Novel Solid Acid Catalyst for Improved Use of Waste Oil Feedstock for Biodiesel Production
- Synthesis of a Polymeric Hybrid Ion Exchanger with Recovered Iron(III) Towards the Removal of Arsenic
- Systems Approach to Recovery and Reuse of Organic Material Flows in Santa Barbara County to Extract Maximum Value and Eliminate Waste
- The Man’s Jacket Design for Disassembly: an Implementation of C2CAD Framework
- Waste Tires on the Island of Dominica: Survey and Solutions
- Waste to Value: Incorporating Industrial Symbiosis for Sustainable Infrastructure
- A Decision Support Tool for Sustainable Urban Water Management
- A Sustainable Approach to Preserve the Choctawhatchee Coastal Dune Lakes of Florida
- Bioindicators of Sustainable Development Strategies in Subtropical Climates
- Civic Stormwater Gardens: An Ecological Solution for Cities with CSOs
- Comparative Analysis of Three Sustainable Point of Use Drinking Water Treatment Technologies for Developing Nations
- Design of Sustainable Water Supply and Distribution System for Pignon, Haiti
- Developing a Small Business in Response to a Stormwater Utility for New Jersey
- Development and Evaluation of Three Simple, Low-Cost, Low-Tech Tests for Microbial Fecal Indicators in Drinking and Recreational Water
- Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation in Rural Bangladesh
- Engineered Stormwater Management for Low-Income Urban Communities
- Enhanced Nutrient Removal from On-Site Wastewater Treatment Systems
- Ground Water Remediation Powered with Renewable Energy
- Pathogen Reduction with Sustainable and Appropriate Technology for a Secondary School Sanitation Facility in Azové, Benin
- Removal of Arsenic from Drinking Water in Remote Indian Villages and Sustainable Disposal of Resultant Arsenic-Laden Waste Products
- Sustainable Biological Phosphorous Removal: A New Theory to Meet Increasingly Stringent Effluent Discharge Requirements
- Sustainable Community Development – Water Slow-Sand Filtration
- Sustainable Water Development Program for Rural Nigeria
- Sustainable Water Supply for La Garrucha, Guatemala
- The Design of a Cost-Effective Titanium Dioxide Photo-Catalyst for the Removal of Arsenic in Drinking Water
- The Development of an Indigenous Fluoride Filter
- Titanium Dioxide and Ultra-violet Light: A Sustainable and Inexpensive Solution for Addressing Drinking Water Quality Issues in the Developing Countries
- University of Arizona Cross-border Water Technology Collaboration
- UV-Tube Design Concept for Sustainable, Point-of-Use Water Disinfection
- Water Treatment and Education in Villahermosa, Mexico
- West Africa Technology, Education and Reciprocity (WATER) for Benin