Message-ID: <199604080027.RAA18517@igc2.igc.apc.org> Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 17:27:30 -0700 From: Richard Buckley <mailto:rbuckley@IGC.APC.ORG> Subject: Sustainability Award To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
MONSANTO OFFERS $100,000 AWARDFOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES
Monsanto is offering a $100,000 incentive to accelerate the progress of new technologies and systems to improve world environmental and economic sustainabilty. The John Franz Sustainability Award will be given to the individual or team who submits the most promising project. John Franz is the inventor of Roundup herbicide, which contributes to agricultural sustainability around the world.
Entries must address one or more of these areas:
Conservation -- Unique practices that contribute to conservation of natural resources.
Technology -- Innovative initiatives in processes, equipment, practices or strategies involving infrastructure, development, and access to credit that allow people to be self-sufficient.
Education -- Programs that train people to acquire and apply information that will improve the quality of their lives, use renewable resources sustainably, substitute renewable resources for new ones, and dramatically reduce waste production.
The deadline for entries is June 1, 1996. For more information or to request an application form, you may contact Diane Herndon, Monsanto Co., 800 N. Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63167, 314-694-2915. You may also request a form by e-mail to: mailto:jfaward@Monsanto.com.
NOTE: Roundup is a registered trademark of Monsanto Co.