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October 2009

Winner of the 2009 Power Generation & Water Solutions Innovation Award. For full story, click here: http://www.ameinfo.com/213369.html

August 2009

Popular Science Magazine - The Future of Farming: Eight Solutions For a Hungry World. The challenge of growing twice as much food by 2050 to feed nine billion people—with less and less land—is everyone’s problem. But scientists are hard at work fomenting a second green revolution. For full story, click here: http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2009-07/8-farming-solution-help-stop-world-hunger 

August 2009

Time Magazine in partnership with CNN - Out of Africa: Saharan Solar Energy. "For years the Sahara has been regarded by many Europeans as a terra incognita of little economic value or importance. But this perception may be headed for a drastic overhaul. Politicians and scientists on both sides of the Med are beginning to focus on the Sahara's potential to power Europe for centuries to come. These people believe the 3.32 million-sq.-mi. (8.6 million sq km) desert's true worth lies in the very thing long regarded as its biggest liability: its arid emptiness. Some patches of the Sahara reach 113 degrees F (45 degrees C) on many afternoons. It is, in other words, a gigantic natural storehouse of solar energy." For full story, click here: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1872110_1872133_1872141,00.html

June 2009

The Buckminster Fuller Challenge Finalist - Sahara Forest. "The purpose of our scheme ‘The Sahara Forest Project’ is to reverse the trend of desertification, grow food crops and, through the climatic benefits produced by revegetation and carbon sequestration, to address climate change." For full story, click here: http://challenge.bfi.org/application_summary/360