Category:Prizes and competitions

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This category is for the various awards, prizes and competitions available for inventions or research which helps sustainability or tackles poverty. Some examples include:

• The Virgin Earth Challenge^WP sponsored by Al Gore and Richard Branson, offers a prize of USD 25 million (EUR19.2 million at the time of offer) to any individual to come up with a commercially viable system for removing at least 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year from the Earth's atmosphere.
• Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability (run by the United States National Academy of Engineering^WP (NAE) supported by the Grainger Foundation). A $1 million prize - in 2007, it was awared for the Sono filter,^WP a workable, sustainable, economical, point-of-use water treatment system for arsenic-contaminated groundwater.
• Automotive X PRIZE. Prize in excess of $10 million sponsored by private X PRIZE^WP foundation for vehicle that wins long distance stage race and achieves 100 MPG.
• Rolex Award^WP

[edit] Other prizes and competitions

These awards are general in scope rather than specifically about sustainability or poverty, but winners do often cover these issues:

• MIT IDEAS Competition^WP
• Lemelson-MIT Student Prize^WP
• See also Wikipedia's "awards" category.