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Read about the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, an organization that has transformed the way food is grown, basing its techniques on Alan Chadwick's farming systems started almost forty years ago.

Read about how two creative individuals have found a unique way to make one-of-a-kind notebooks from vintage record sleeves, thrift store buys and reclaimed office paper, each with their own interwoven papergeist.

Find out what technology exists to create a significant amount of paper from alternative fibers.
Read about TerraCycle™ Inc.,
the world's first company to mass
produce a product that actually
leaves a negative ecological
footprint.

Meet eco-innovator,
Larry Zirkle of
Total
Reclaim,Inc.

Through the decades, INFORM has won numerous awards from federal agencies and other prestigious organizations, including:
1976: National Energy Foundation Award, received for Energy Futures, the first in-depth public report on 200 companies involved in researching and developing new energy sources
1987: US EPA Region 2 Environmental Quality Award
1992: US EPA Administrator’s Award, received for our national leadership in pollution prevention, especially for inspiring the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 and recommending the creation of the Toxic Release Inventory in 1986
1992: US EPA Region 2 Environmental Quality Award
1993: Federal Fleet Conversion Task Force, given for staff service on its working group, which developed a plan to leverage the federal government’s purchasing power to accelerate the production and market acceptance of alternative fuel vehicles
1993: President’s Council of Environmental Quality Award, given for planning the first 100 percent natural gas bus fleet in the US
1994: Consolidated Edison of New York’s Enlightened Energy Award, received for our energy conservation efforts, which included implementing energy efficiency improvements in our office
1994: City Club of New York’s Earth Day Award, received for our leadership in finding solutions to the city’s municipal solid waste problem
1997: American Society for Public Administration, New York Metropolitan Chapter’s Excellence in Public Service-Outstanding Organization Award