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BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — The third and final day of Prince William and Princess Catherine's Boston trip led the royal couple to their main event: the EarthShot Awards held at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway on Friday.
The EarthShot Prize ceremony awarded and honored five organizations for their efforts to fight climate change and encourage sustainability in five different categories.
The winners were as follows:
- Protect and Restore Nature Winner: Kheyti, an Indian startup that designed a "Greenhouse-in-a-Box" to help farmers shield crops from the elements and boost efficiency.
- Clean Our Air Winner: Mukuru Clean Stoves, an organization that began in within the largest slum of Kenya's capital city Nairobi with the development of a stove that burns processed biomass as fuel, an option that creates 90 percent less pollution than open fires.
- Revive Our Oceans Winner: Indigenous Women of the Great Barrier Reef, an Australian organization that trains women in Queensland the ins and outs of conservation efforts for the Great Barrier Reef.
- Build a Waste-Free World Winner: Notpla, an organization from the United Kingdom that offers seaweed-made and biodegradable products to substitute plastics.
- Fix Our Climate Winner: 44.01, an Oman-based company that mineralizes CO2 emissions, essentially removing them forever.
Prior to the ceremony, the Prince and Princess of Wales were spotted on the "green carpet" waving to onlookers in the company of other celebrities.
WBZ's Kim Tunnicliffe (@KimWBZ) reports.
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