Energy Vision’s l9th Annual Awards Reception was held on a clear fall evening in NYC at the beautiful
ILA Penthouse on West 28 th Street in the city’s flower district. With a turnout of 120 supporters and
energy leaders from across the country, we presented awards to four industry pioneers who are moving
the US toward a sustainable energy future and a leading American litigator, professor, author and
greenhouse gas reduction advocate.
Divert, Inc. a Massachusetts company, received its award for its work to eliminate food waste by
distributing edible food to people in need and sending over 3.3 billion pounds of inedible non-donatable
food waste to anaerobic digester facilities where it is turned into clean fuel and organic fertilizer.
Cummins introduced and FedEx Freight field tested a new powerful 15-liter (X15N™) natural gas engine
which can run on renewable natural gas made from waste. The more than 2.3 million of these heavy
trucks on US roadways at last have an alternative to achieve major reductions in greenhouse gases and
tailpipe emissions.
And a German company, EnviTec Biogas that has designed, built and operated more than 800 sophisticated
anaerobic digester systems which get the most value from organic wastes.
Each of these corporate innovators have achieved major cuts in methane emissions, which Durwood
Zaelke, our fourth award winner and founder and president of the Institute for Governance and
Sustainable Development, called “the fastest way to turn down near-term warming — a key to keeping
the planet safe in the near term.
See below for a selection of photos from the event. You can learn more about these pioneers in the forthcoming issue of EV News.