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Add another accolade to the growing list about Ecovative, the company that is using mushrooms and other organic materials for a drop-in replacement to styrofoam. The company, recently highlighted in Popular Science, was last week featured on CNN.com’s “Young People Who Rock” blog as well as on a CNN.com Live Interview with 24-year-old founders/innovators Eben…

Among the winners announced today for The Wall Street Journal 2009 Technology Innovation Awards was recent Lemelson-MIT Sustainability winner Joel Selanikio and his company DataDyne. The nonprofit was picked from more than 500 entries for their free EpiSurveyor software that helps health care officials in developing countries use mobile devices to collect data on immunization rates, vaccine…

Showcasing how youth can make a difference in the world, the winners of the 2009 Invent Your World Challenge are already hard at work showing off their inventions. Overall winner Javier Fernández-Han, 15, and his VERSATILE system has been featured in a variety of news articles, including Inhabitant.com and Instructables.com. The VERSATILE system is an algae-powered energy system…

Designing a Global Geothermal Challenge August 20, 2009 – With the understanding that the possibilities of geothermal technology have not yet been fully realized and the intent of addressing energy security, the Foundation for Geothermal Innovation (FGI) and the Lemelson Foundation have released initial findings defining the technical criteria for a critical new generation of geothermal…

Mr Shivakumar, one of the first shepherds to adopt the system, has already seen some encouraging results. An innovation from the RAMP program in India is the focus of an article in July’s issue of the online magazine New Agriculturist.The innovation combines a product with a service for nomadic sheepherders and their flocks in southern India. This…

Cambridge, Mass.  – When it comes to solving complex problems, Geoffrey von Maltzahn, MIT graduate student and biomedical engineer, looks to nature for solutions. Finding inspiration in systems that evolution has produced, von Maltzahn is currently helping to tackle one of society’s biggest challenges: improving tumor detection and therapeutic delivery in order to boost the…