Other entries included team Eco's Climate Sim, which sees the player taking control of a farmer who has to balance his day-to-day energy and water needs with the growth of his crops and the environmental impact of his actions.
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On the first day, the team unveiled its eco-friendly dashboard to a panel of auto experts, including representatives from Ford and General Motors.
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According to the Kansas State Collegian, the university revised the main page of the EcoKat website to remove photos of her and Willie the Wildcat standing together and edit out references to their eco-enforcing tag-team, although as of this writing the full EcoEnforcers page remains online as an orphan web page.
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Also concealed: The lengths to which the team went to integrate eco systems radiant floors, photovoltaic panels and rainwater collection into the design.
"It's really more a matter of smarts than muscle, " says Secades, whose Venture 4 team won the Cal Eco Adventure race in 37 hours, 55 minutes.
In the Raid Gauloises (see box, p. 478) and the Eco-Challenge, at least one team member must be a woman.
"The more you know your teammates, the less likely you are to take comments made in the midst of sleep deprivation personally, " says Sara Ballantyne, 38, a professional mountain-bike racer who helped lead Team Vail to victory in last year's Eco-Challenge in Morocco.
"Younger people tend to think they'll just power through the race, which is almost always the slower approach, " says Ranch Kimball, 41, a former BCG partner whose team, Tiger Adventure, took second place in the Cal Eco.
Young problem solvers make fuel wood-alternative from bio-waste: Jon Kubricki and Bridget Zarych , both 16-year-old students at Pinelands Eco Regional High School in Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey , are winning team-members of the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge.
Earlier this year, father and daughter team Yannis and Rozalin Vlatakis, hoteliers from Greece, opened a sophisticated eco-resort on the little island of Seraya.
Eco-resistant sports fans may be more receptive when the pitch comes from their favorite team.
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