




An associate laureate was awarded to a Filipino scientist, engineer and chairman of the Agricultural Engineering Department of the Central Philippine University. Engineer Alexis Belono, a 1997 Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) Awardee for Agricultural Engineering, has developed a stove that uses a waste product - rice husks - as fuel. Sometimes the most mundane things can become the biggest opportunities to go green... and to win financial support to boot! Click here for a full project description. (He told me that he will receive his award in Manila tomorrow! Congratulations once again!)
A laureate was also given to Tim Bauer of Envirofit, an American group that has developed a direct injection retrofit system for tricycles, making them clean and efficient (who would have thought that this is possible?). This is great news for residents of Vigan and Puerto Princessa. Wonder if implementation in Manila is in the works too? (anyone who has been there is familiar with the pollution caused by the public transportation system!)
Needless to say, this is very inspiring, and great news for the country.
To read an Inquirer article about this, click here.
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