Challenges

Green Design Challenges and Competitions

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 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.

GeoTourism Challenge

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

Green Chemistry

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.