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== Green Design Challenges and Competitions ==
 
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[http://www.planetforward.org/pages/about-planet-forward Planet Forward] is a bottom-up effort on WWW and PBS to have public input into energy policy.
  
 
[http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/competition/geotourism GeoTourism Challenge]
 
[http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/competition/geotourism GeoTourism Challenge]

Revision as of 22:05, 17 April 2009

Green Design Challenges and Competitions

Planet Forward is a bottom-up effort on WWW and PBS to have public input into energy policy.

GeoTourism Challenge

Recyclemania UCSC competes

Buckminster Fuller Institute site with video

Xprize has [video contest for wild green ideas, high mileage cars, and will soon have other prizes for green design and entrepreneurship.

PETA is offering an XPrize for test tube meat. See pro's and cons.

Engineers Without Borders - USA (EWB-USA) is a non-profit humanitarian organization established to partner with developing communities worldwide in order to improve their quality of life. This partnership involves the implementation of sustainable engineering projects, while involving and training internationally responsible engineers and engineering students. Research Challenges

Green Chemistry

PBS News Hour segment on student competition to build biological machines, for example for bio-fuels and remediation.