EPA Provides Grants for Students to Design Sustainable Technologies

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded 43 grants to teams of college and university students across the country.

The grants are designed to enable the recipients design creative technologies to addresses sustainability challenges around the world. The People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) Phase I awards for the 2009-2010 competition encourages students to work as teams to design and build sustainable technologies that improve quality of life and facilitate economic development while protecting the environment.

More information on EPA’s P3 program: http://www.epa.gov/ncer/p3/
More information on 2009-2010 Phase I P3 Awards: http://www.epa.gov/ncer/p3/current

NFRC to Offer CMA Pilot Program

CMA Pilot Program Webinar Approaching; Register Now!The next scheduled monthly CMA Pilot Program Update Webinar will be held on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 from 1:00-3:00 PM Eastern Time. The webinar will cover recent developments in CMAST and the CMA product certification program. If you have topics related to CMA you'd like to discuss, please submit them to Jessica Ferris, CMA Program Manager (jferris@nfrc.org). Webinar registration can be found on the following CMA page of the NFRC website: http://www.nfrc.org/CMA-Training-Page.aspx