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College Students Lead the U.S. Towards a Greener Future - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) P3 Awards Winners
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In: Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
Partnership Matters Newsletter
May 11, 2007
Students from Western Washington University drove from Washington State
to Washington, D.C., in a car entirely powered by compressed natural gas fuel made from recovered landfill
methane. Northwestern students built a solar powered system that provides
electricity to a rural town in Panama, miles away from any electric power
grid. The University of Virginia team designed and built a floating "learning
barge," that teaches about cleaning up and restoring plant to a river
area by doing it! These were just a few of the winning projects at EPA's
People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) awards ceremony last night.
This national competition, sponsored by EPA's Office of Research
and Development, enables college students create sustainable solutions to
environmental problems through technology innovation. These sustainable
solutions must be environmentally friendly, efficiently use natural resources
and be economically competitive. Each P3 award includes funding up to $75,000
that gives the students an opportunity to further develop their designs
and move them to the marketplace.
Winners of this year's awards and their projects are:
- Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C., The Affordable Bioshelters Project: Testing Technologies for Affordable Bioshelters
- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., Containment of Highly Concentrated Arsenic-laden Spent Regenerant on the Indian Subcontinent
- Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., Solar Photovoltaic System Design for a Remote Community in Panama
- University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, Ill., An Innovative System for Bioremediation of Agricultural Chemicals for Environmental Sustainability
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., The Learning Barge: Environmental + Cultural Ecologies on the Elizabeth River
- Western Washington University, Bellingham, Wash., Bio-Methane for Transportation
The P3 Award competition was held at EPA's 3rd National Sustainable
Design Expo on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on April
24 and 25. The Expo showcases innovative, cutting-edge technologies
designed by the P3 teams along with sustainable policies and technologies
developed and implemented by government and state agencies and
nonprofit organizations. Support for the competition includes more
than 40 partners in the federal government, industry and scientific
and professional societies.
More information about the P3 Award competition: http://www.epa.gov/p3
P3 award winners and their projects: http://www.epa.gov/p3/07winners
EPA's sustainability research program: http://www.epa.gov/sustainability