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Revision as of 18:13, 8 January 2010
Green Design Challenges and Competitions
Santa Cruz Design Renaissance Challenge. Submit Your Vision Help generate win-win solutions for the community, and spark a creative Design Renaissance. In 500 words or less, describe the problem, key players, and a vision which addresses a local sustainable design issue. The best projects will be invited to present at Design Renaissance April 24 2010. http://designrenaissance.net/
One Design Fix for the Future is looking for ONE design fix you can make now in your designed environment—the products you use, your home, your workplace, your city, or any commercial application—that, in scale or as inspiration, can improve our future. DEADLINE: January 29, 2010
The Betacup: Eliminating Paper Cup Wastage Through Collaborative Design
2009 Global Innovation Tournament Organized by Stanford University.
Global Cleantech Open is the world’s largest clean technology business competition.
UCSC Business Plan/Entrepreneur Competition. 2009 first prize $12,000. Story on 2009 winners.
New L Prize contest to create a better light bulb.
International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM) is the premiere undergraduate Synthetic Biology competition. Student teams are given a kit of biological parts at the beginning of the summer from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. Working at their own schools over the summer, they use these parts and new parts of their own design to build biological systems and operate them in living cells.audio interview
Planet Forward is a bottom-up effort on WWW and PBS to have public input into energy policy.
Recyclemania UCSC competes
Buckminster Fuller Institute site with video Here is 2009 winner of $100K prize and the runner-up 2010 deadline is 10/30. List of more design challenges.
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
PBS News Hour segment on student competition to build biological machines, for example for bio-fuels and remediation.
Local Resources
EcoLogic Design Lab: Seeking to innovate, create and educate, UCSC's EcoLogic Design Lab was formed to facilitate a transition from ego-centric to eco-centric in the built environment – from detached ecological awareness to expansive connection with the local ecology and environment using evolutionary awareness and design tools to create high performance design.
Video overview of Santa Cruz entrepreneur and design support, including the Design and Innovation Center and the Pilot Project on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (contact student coordinator, larae@ucsc.edu. Center phone 420.6414). It hosts a business plan competition.
