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Sustainable Business Plan Competition - 2009 Winners!

 

Grand Prize Winner:  Optisilv

Optisilv provides a software product that combines digital aerial photographs and/or related technolgoy known as light detection and ranging (lidar) with ground data to perform forest inventories at lower cost and more accurately than traditional techniques.

 

Runner Up:  Eastern Bioplastics

Eastern Bioplastics is a green technology startup company in Harrisonburg, Virginia that is currently custom designing machinery and processes to manufacture biodegradable plastics from poultry feather biomass.

 

Third Place:  Secure Futures

Secure Futures based in Staunton, Virginia proposes a Triple-E Solar manufacturing, installation, financing and organization structure to enable large tax-exempt entities to benefit from a lower than grid-parity priced electricity through 25-year Solar Prepaid Power Purchase Agreements for 500kW solar installations at their sites.

 

Fourth Place:  Friendly City Food Cooperative

Friendly City Food Cooperative is a full-service grocery store in downtown Harrisonburg emphasizing healthy, local, natural, and organic products.

 

Awards will be customized to match the start-up needs of the winning ventures. 

Thanks for the strong participation and contribution from JMU and the Shenandoah Valley.  The creativity, research, and passion demonstrated in all of the SBPC submissions and the four finalists demonstrate a vibrant entrepreneurial spirit in our community.

Start writing and honing your plan for 2011!