By Allison rogers | Grants Manager
Recently Dr. Laurie Marker was named a co-recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement--known as the Nobel for the environment--in part for CCF's Bush Project. The Tyler Prize was established by the late John and Alice Tyler in 1973 and is administered by the University of Southern California. This is a great honor for Dr. Marker and CCF. The prize money will be earmarked for a biomass-powered generator that will produce power by burning invasive bush. As Namibia is dependent on South Africa for electricity--and even then much of Namibia is not on a power grid--developing alternative sources of fuel are critical. Biomass-powered generators burn much cleaner than their diesel counterparts. It is hoped that once CCF's generator is up and running--and providing power to the BushBlok plant as well--other entities, such as the Namibian government, will install biomass-fueled power plants and adopt CCF's ecologically safe bush harvesting methods. This has the potential to restore millions of acres of wildlife habitat in Namibia alone.
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