October 2009
Winner of the 2009 Power Generation & Water Solutions Innovation Award.

August 2009
Popular Science Magazine - The Future of Farming: Eight Solutions For a Hungry World. The challenge of growing twice as much food by 2050 to feed nine billion people—with less and less land—is everyone’s problem. But scientists are hard at work fomenting a second green revolution.

August 2009
Time Magazine in partnership with CNN - Out of Africa: Saharan Solar Energy:

June 2009
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge Finalist - Sahara Forest. "The purpose of our scheme ‘The Sahara Forest Project’ is to reverse the trend of desertification, grow food crops and, through the climatic benefits produced by revegetation and carbon sequestration, to address climate change."