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| Clarkson University (2010 P3 Award Winner) Growing Lettuce in the Snow 2010 winners, have designed and built high tech greenhouses for cold climates and started Blue Sphere industries, a student-run business. The energy efficiencies of the design have produced high yields for year round growing in the prototype. |
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| Clarkson University (2010 P3 Award Winner) Energy from Small Farm Wastes 2010 winners, have designed an innovative system that turns cow manure into biogas that can supply fuel for small dairy farm operations. |
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| Cornell University (2010 P3 Award Winner) Small Town Drinking Water: Powered by Gravity, Designed for Reliability 2010 winners, have designed and installed innovative treatment systems that provide drinking water to more than 25,000 in communities in Honduras. The team is exploring the aguaClara system’s application in small communities in the united States. |
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| Drexel University (2010 P3 Award Winner) Cement From Trash: Low-CO2, Low-Cost, and Fair 2010 winners, have developed a process to make alkali-activated cement made from trash. The process costs 50 percent less and produces 97 percent less CO2 than conventional methods for making concrete. |
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| North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (2010 P3 Award Winner) Natuculture: Biomimicry in Urban Landscapes 2010 winners, are promoting “natuculture,” a unique design and installation of natural systems to reduce energy use and manage stormwater on campus. |
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| Roger Williams University (2010 P3 Award Winner) Photovoltaic Powered Fish Farm 2010 winners, have designed a pond-sized aquaculture system for growing fish that is powered entirely by photovoltaic panels. |
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| University of Illinois at Champaign (2010 P3 Award Winner) Aged Sand and Iron-Oxides Remove Viruses 2010 winners, are designing an innovative filter that uses rusted iron and dirty sand to remove viruses in water. |
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| Duke University (2011 P3 Award Winner) Water in the Basin: Management of the Whole or Part? 2011 winners, are designing a system for managing water basins to enhance water quality, reduce the impact of stormwater flows and lower the amount of harmful nutrients that flow into rivers and streams from farming and industry. |
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| Oklahoma State University (2011 P3 Award Winner) Wind, Water and Carbon Dioxide: A recipe for fuel... 2011 winners, have developed “BioWinol” a technology for converting carbon dioxide and wind energy into biofuel. |
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| University of Delaware (2011 P3 Award Winner) Soybeans, Chicken Feathers, and Fashion? 2011 winners, are designing and producing clothes, shoes and bags from materials made from bio-based, renewable sources such as soybeans and chicken feathers. |
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| University of Illinois at Champaign (2011 P3 Award Winner) We’ve got a Bone to Pick with Heavy Metals 2011 winners, are providing simple, affordable and sustainable bone char filtration systems to remove arsenic and uranium from the Pine Ridge Reservation’s drinking water. |
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| University of Massachusetts Lowell (2011 P3 Award Winner) Safer Flame Retardants Using Plant Catalysts 2011 winners, are researching ways to make flame retardants without toxic chemicals using an environmentally friendly process. |
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