Information for Media
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Multimedia Highlights
![View a P3 video describing the P3 competition.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090813004931im_/http://epa.gov/ncer/p3/images/p3video_thumb3.jpg)
- Videos: Expo and P3 Overviews
- Videos: 2008 P3 Winners
- Photos: 2009 Expo and P3
- Audio: 2009 Expo and P3
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P3 Research Project Search
The National Sustainable Design Expo featuring EPA's P3 (People, Prosperity and the Planet) competition and awards support teams of college and university students who compete to design and build sustainable technologies. In addition to the P3 team projects, government, nonprofit, and for-profit organizations exhibit their sustainable technologies, designs, and ideas. The National Sustainable Design Expo and P3 event on the National Mall are OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
All P3 Team projects are judged at the Expo by a panel of judges selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The EPA then chooses the P3 teams to receive the P3 Award and Honorable Mention and announces the winners at the P3 Awards Ceremony on the evening of the last day of the Expo. P3 Teams that receive the P3 Award also receive additional funding to continue development so they can take their idea to market or implement it in the field. The awards ceremony is also open to media.
The P3 competition and awards are sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Other additional awards may be added prior to the Expo. Additional awards from previous years award are available in the Media Information Archive.
Prior additional award presentors are available in the Media Information Archive.
2008 P3 Award winners photos and video are available on the P3 Multimedia page.
Summary of 2009 P3 Communications and Outreach:
Matthew Lesko’s Government Money Club:
PBS Online NewsHour:
- Posted photos and audio of interview with 5 of the P3 teams
Getty Images:
Online articles from:
- Engineers Without Borders Columbia University Chapter
- EPA News Release
- Media Newswire.com
- Treehugger.com
- Dexigner.com
- Green Building Institute
- Kansas City info Zine
- PRLog
- Americantowns.com
- Cogito.org
- Bioneers Community
- Midlothian Exchange.com
- USF encounter
- The Ghanaian Journal
- FMLink.com
- The Journal of New England Technology: Mass High Tech.com
- McCook stories.com
Blogs:
School Coverage:
- University of Arkansas
- The University of Arizona UA News
- UA graduate student Kyle VanderLugt and his colleagues traveled to Washington, D.C. to compete in the P3 Award competition.
- Leading in a Global Market : UA Team Tops National Sustainable Systems Design Competition
- University of Tennessee Knoxville
- UT Knoxville Team Claims Top Honors in EPA Sustainable Design Competition in D.C.; Second UT Team Receives Honorable Mention
- UT Knoxville Students, Faculty Travel to Nation's Capital for Sustainable Design Competition
- UT students win green award for Norris model home design
- University of Maryland University College
- SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
- ESF Students Vie for $75,000 in National Science Competition
- Green dairy project looking for national recog
- Columbia University
- James Madison University
- University of Florida
- University of Wisconsin
- University of South Florida
- USF Students Earn EPA Sustainability Award
- ESW won an EPA P3 Phase 1 grant
- Water Awareness, Research and Education in East Tampa
- Texas A&M Engineering News
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- University of Michigan: The University Record Online
- Fort Lewis College
- California Lutheran University
- CLU receives EPA grant to study river
- Undergraduate research benefits students and professors
- Class projects teach sustainability
- Lafeyette University
- Loyola University
- Austin Peay State University
Contacts
This contact information is for media only. If you are a member of the media and would like additional information about the P3 event, please contact:
Mary Wigginton (wigginton.mary@epa.gov)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20046
Phone: 202-343-9861
E-mail: wigginton.mary@epa.gov