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Nominations Invited for Karl W. Böer Solar Energy Medal of Merit Award (http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/539485/?sc=dwhp) - The University of Delaware is accepting nominations until Sept. 3, for the 2009 Karl W. Böer Solar Energy Medal of Merit (http://www.udel.edu/iec/boer_award.html), which carries a cash award of $50,000. It is bestowed for significant pioneering contributions to the promotion of solar energy. (NewsWise; Apr. 7, 2008)

Euromoney and Ernst & Young Global Renewable Energy Awards (http://www.euromoneyenergy.com/default.asp?Page=11&eventid=ECK501&site=energy)- The Euromoney and Ernst & Young Global Renewable Energy Awards were established to recognise the projects, companies and individuals who have made a significant contribution to the renewable energy sector.

Shell Global Eco-Marathon (http://www.shell.com/home/Framework?siteId=eco-marathon-en&FC2=/eco-marathon-en/html/iwgen/leftnavs/zzz_lhn1_0_0.html&FC3=/eco-marathon-en/html/iwgen/welcome_global.html) - The Shell Eco-marathon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-marathon) is an annual educational project that integrates the sustainable development values with driving as far as possible using the least amount of energy.
- Fuel Efficient Vehicles > At Eco-marathon, teen driving team races to 2,843 mpg (http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-9918198-54.html?tag=cd.blog) - The team from Mater Dei High School might be only months (or less) removed from driver's ed, but it pulled off a nifty feat of driving over the weekend. One of its entries in the Shell Eco-marathon Americas won the $10,000 USD grand prize for motoring to a record 2,843.4 miles per gallon. (CNet News; April 14, 2008)

Sustainability Awards (http://www.afs.nonprofitoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B28813944-7330-457A-B9CC-478A18602BB0%7D) - provides the Twin Cities (Minnesota) and the nation with the opportunity to recognize individuals, groups, and institutions that have been exemplary leaders and made significant contributions to sustainability—creating a world that is ecologically sound, economically viable, socially just and humane.

$50 million in clean diesel grants up for grabs from EPA (http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/04/06/50-million-in-clean-diesel-grants-up-for-grabs-from-epa/) - That's the amount that the EPA announced (http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/dc57b08b5acd42bc852573c90044a9c4/9cdf7d0a360a15c58525741f005517bc!OpenDocument) it will spend on clean diesel research, especially on "school or transit buses, medium and heavy-duty trucks, marine engines, locomotives and nonroad engines." (AutoBlog Green; April 6, 2008)

Alex Salmond

The Saltire Prize (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Business-Industry/Energy/saltire-prize) - The Scottish Government has created the opportunity to award one of the biggest international innovation prizes in history through its plans for the Saltire Prize - a £10 million ($20 million) challenge prize for advances in clean energy. Details to be released November 30, 2008 on St. Andrew's Day at Edinburgh Castle. (April 3, 2008)

ConocoPhillips, Penn State partner on nationwide energy prize program (http://www.energy.psu.edu/) - The program will award up to $300,000 in cash prizes through the EMS Energy Institute (http://www.energy.psu.edu/) and focus on generating innovative ideas and solutions that help in three areas; developing new energy sources, including new ways to develop alternative energy, improving energy efficiency, such as new methods to significantly reduce the amount of energy consumed in the United States, climate change, including solutions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Contest Rules (http://www.conocophillips.com/Tech/energyprize/Rules/index.htm) (March 31, 2008)

Ignite Clean Energy Competition (http://www.ignitecleanenergy.com/ice-2008) - $125,000 USD are at stake. To spur entrepreneurial activities, the Energy SIG2 of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge, MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize (CEEP) and the MIT 100K Energy Track have combined forces to offer a business presentation competition. (ICE; 2008)

MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize established to drive innovative ideas to market (http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/clean-energy-1128.html) - This prestigious $200,000 USD prize was established by building off the very strong base of two existing and nationally recognized MIT competitions--the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition and the Ignite Clean Energy Competition. (MIT News; Nov. 28, 2007)

Advanced Energy Research Organization (AERO) (http://pesn.com/2007/11/02/9500455_AERO_Award/) - Steven Greer, founder of the Disclosure Project, is a leading expert on UFO suppression and associated advanced, clean energy technology sequestration. AERO was established to protect and launch a revolutionary energy technology that meets the screening criteria of 'self-running with at least 1 kW of usable electricity.' (PESN; Nov. 11, 2007)

Broadcast Your Non-Profit Cause (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/10/broadcast_your_cause.php) - YouTube has pledged $20 million over two years to launch the YouTube Non-Profit Program, an initiative to encourage non-profit organizations to design and create "brand channels" to build communities, while raising awareness for their cause. (TreeHugger; Oct. 4, 2007)

Three-Millionth Visit to FreeEnergyNews.com Home Page Today (http://www.freeenergynews.com/Directory/Awards/PES/3_Million_FEN/index.html) - We will be giving away a prize to the two people who come closest to being the 3,000,000th visitor to our home page. Last year, the competition was stiff. Read some of our company highlights from the past year. (FreeEnergyNews; Sept. 14. 2007)

Scientists to Vie for $25M Climate Prize (http://www.virginearth.com/) - British tycoon Sir Richard Branson has announced The Virgin Earth Challenge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Earth_Challenge), which is a $25 million global science and technology prize that will be awarded to an individual or a group who can demonstrate a design to reduce atmospheric pollution and contribute to the stability of the earth's climate. (PhysOrg; Feb. 9, 2007)

Stefan Hartmann

Overunity.com's Prize Cache Growing (http://www.overunity.com/index.php/topic,2157.0.html) - Forum moderator, Stefan Hartmann began the initiative in March, 2007, putting $1,000 from ad revenue into a kitty, which has now grown to $3,500 Euros; to be award to the first person to satisfy the contest stipulations, which include a willingness to open source the technology. (Overunity.com)

Eric Krieg's Open Offer to Validate Claims of Free Energy (http://www.phact.org/e/freetest.html) - $10,000 for real proof of claim.

The Next X-Prize: Rethinking the Automobile - X Prize's founder, Peter Diamandis, wants the next prize to include the task of solving some of the world's transportation problems. "Why do we still drive cars that use an internal combustion engine and only get 30 miles per gallon?" (TreeHugger; Feb. 1, 2006)