[Satellite Today 09-02-08] Alcatel-Lucent joined forces with the Telecommunications Journal of Australia to offer the Broadband Environment Challenge, awarding $10,000 in prize money for the best papers on broadband applications and solutions with potential to deliver benefits to environmental sustainability, Alcatel-Lucent announced Sept. 2.
    The company said that the Eckermann-TJA Prize, named after the challenge’s founder Prof. Robin Eckermann, will be awarded to the paper which best demonstrates how an existing use of broadband technology delivers environmentally sustainable benefits, or which proposes new ways of delivering eco-sustainability benefits.
    Papers are invited in such areas as consumption of natural resources, greenhouse gas emissions, waste production, and discharge into water and air from operations.