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<span style="font-size:medium;">EPA’s P3 – People, Prosperity, and the Planet – is a research grant competition for student teams to propose and develop sustainable solutions to current and future problems. Eligible research areas include: water, energy, agriculture, built environment, materials, chemicals, cookstoves, and green infrastructure.</span>
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<br/><span style="font-size:medium;">The overall purpose of EPA’s P3 program is “to create innovative green technologies designed to advance economic growth while reducing environmental impact and benefit people, prosperity, and the planet” (Facebook, P3). The P3 program fills this overall purpose by:</span>
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<br/><span style="font-size:medium;">EPA’s P3 program’s uniqueness lies in its two-phase design. Not only does the grant fund student teams to develop ideas, it also provides money to commercialize the idea.</span>
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<br/><span style="font-size:medium;">EPA’s P3 program has been in existence since 2004. Since 2004, the program seem to have had substantial impact and on multiple campuses. The 2013/2014 program winners, their campuses and project titles can be found at [http://epa.gov/ncer/p3/current/index.html http://epa.gov/ncer/p3/current/index.html]. Past winners are listed at [http://epa.gov/ncer/p3/past/index.html http://epa.gov/ncer/p3/past/index.html]. </span>
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<br/><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Eligibility Criteria''': Only institutions of higher education in the United States are eligible to apply for the grant, to support teams of undergraduate and graduate students interested in proposing, developing, and implementing sustainable designs. Universities are allowed to collaborate with others outside the US though. Community colleges are eligible to apply. Multiple members of the institutions can apply, however, the projects cannot be inter-dependent. </span>
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<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Interested folks can contact the P3 program personal:'''</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">Find EPA’s P3 on Facebook at [https://www.facebook.com/epaP3 https://www.facebook.com/epaP3]</span>
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