Excellence Comes in Many Shapes, Sizes
By Steve Dwyer
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 Diversity carried the day when the first-annual Brownfield Renewal awards were presented November 17 to four project sponsors in a modest-sized but well-populated conference room at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans during the Brownfields 2009 convention.
The recipients included:
City of Oklahoma City, Metropolitan Area Projects, awarded an ECONOMIC IMPACT award;
Mason Run “New Urbanism” Neighborhood and River Raisin National Battlefield Park, Monroe, Mich., SOCIAL IMPACT award recipients; and
Menomonee Valley Industrial Center, Milwaukee, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT award winner.
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  28 percent approximate amount of all energy used in the Unites States for transporting people and goods from one place to another.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 200-300 estimated number of hydrogen-fueled vehicles in the United States today
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 9,783,000 number of barrels of crude oil the United States imports each day.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 1 million number of gallons of fresh water that can be contaminated from the used oil from one oil change.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 20 million number of people that celebrated the first Earth Day on Aril 22, 1970.
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Source U.S. Department of Energy
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