Project Name

Project Description

Grand Prize: $20,000
Increasing the Efficiency of Cellulosic Biofuels Using Genetically Engineered Microbes

Using genetically engineered enzymes to increase the efficiency of biofuels

Best State Solution: $10,000
EcoStream

An environmentally friendly vending machine

Best National Solution: $10,000
A Novel Method of Carbon Sequestration

A product that turns biomass into biochar and captures the created synthesis gas

Best International Solution: $10,000
Solar Cycle

A product for developing nations that uses garbage to create a reflective material that is used in a solar cooking device and water purification system

Finalists

DriveAlternatives.com

A web based mapping program to connect "green" car user with the location of usable fueling stations and car sharing sites

RoadNET

Employing new technology to decrease emissions in the creation of roads

EnergE-Bikes Inc.

A business plan to bring electric bikes to Madison

The Green Reading Reward Program

A reading program designed to educated young children on issue of climate change

Runners-up

Sustainable Sister Cities

A program designed as a local initiative to connect international cities promoting the sharing of "green" knowledge

Dormitory Carpet Recycling Program

Program to recycle dorm room area carpets

KnowCO2.Com

Test study website giving a portion of advertising funds to prevent rain forest deforestation

Trading Spaces

Policy tool designed to calculate the environmental, social, and economic benefits of urban parks

Twin Cities Coffee Cooperative

Co-op business plan that collects used coffee grounds and uses them in creation of biofuels

Proposing a Vehicle for Private Capital Investments into Methane Utilization as a Mitigating Factor for Climate Change

A financial strategy to help farmers obtain anaerobic digesters and capture energy from methane

Wisconsin Policy Perspective: Environmental Accounting and Social Investment

A policy that creates a standard environmental accounting system

PosiPair

Web based business that works to connect "green" businesses with consumers

Cap and Trade: A Market Based Solution to Climate Change

Policy solution to create a cap and trade program in the United States

Green MP Gym

Business plan to retrofit gyms making them "green"

Restoring Wisconsin's Prairie and Savannah Agro ecosystems

State policy to increase carbon sequestration by restoring agricultural lands to prairie and oak savannah

Environmental Policy to Reduce CO2 Coal Plant Emissions

National policy to reduce coal plant carbon emissions

Grass-Routes

Program to plant prairie grass alongside highways increasing carbon sequestration

Natures Chef

Business plan to home deliver organic meals

Co-Digestion of Food Waste at a Wastewater Treatment Plant for Biogas Generation

Program to capture methane from county landfill using a anaerobic digester

A Complete Carbon Policy: Taxes and Subsidies that will Mitigate Climate Change Today

National policy to implement a taxing program to decrease carbon output

Travel Contribute Connect

International program to create sustainable agricultural tourism in Nicaragua