Caltech’s Resnick Institute Opens Nominations for Resonate Awards for Innovation

Caltech’s Resnick Sustainability Institute has opened nomination for the 2015 Resonate Awards. The awards are focused on bringing attention to innovators with ideas that contribute to long term sustainability. These include meeting needs for energy sustainability, providing water and food for a growing population, cleaning the environment and improving people’s access to natural resources.

The 2014 winners contributed to areas such as energy storage, funding of transformative sustainability ideas, new ways to solve issues of the smart grid and the development of new chemical processes that could change alternative energy economics.

“The ideas that will transform the world will come from innovators who challenge conventional wisdom and are willing to think about problems in completely new ways,” said Harry Atwater, director of the Resnick Sustainability Institute.  “We are looking for nominations from all over the world and from the best scientists and engineers, policy thinkers, financiers, artists, companies, and sources we may not have even considered before.”

The deadline for entries is October 6.

For more information, visit the Resnick Sustainability Institute.

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