It is up to middle school students to solve one of the country’s most difficult dilemmas: creating affordable housing for the poor that is energy efficient and leaves a low carbon footprint.

The 18^th annual National Engineers Week Future City Competition is challenging seventh and eighth graders nationwide to design cities that adhere to LEED approved environmentally sustainable building standards.

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Efforts to cut carbon dioxide emissions and energy costs are giving rise to . . . poo power! That’s right – for the past few years engineers have been implementing new ways to convert waste products into usable biofuels. The process involves a series of chemical reactions know as anaerobic digestion, which ultimately produces a biogas composed largely of methane and carbon dioxide.

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The Center of Advanced Materials for Purification of Water with Systems (WaterCAMPWS) is an National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center headquartered on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus. Structured around a model of interdisciplinary, multi-institution, and international collaboration, the WaterCAMPWS mission is to develop revolutionary technologies to purify the earth’s waters for drinking, agricultural, industrial, and ecological applications. Teams of WaterCAMPWS researchers and students are working on the next generation of new materials and systems for safely and economically disinfecting, decontaminating, desalinating and reusing water. Research areas include chemical oxidation-reduction science and processes; biochemical processes; and active aqueous transport processes.

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The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), has scholarships available. The goal of ASHRAE is to advance technology to serve humanity and promote a sustainable world.

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Coal-fired power plants are a major source of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. But they continue to be built because coal remains an abundant and cheap fuel source. Still, a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says that carbon dioxide emissions could be drastically cut, even with increased coal burning. The trick: Future power plants would have to capture the carbon and then sequester, or bury, it underground.

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