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2010 Alumni Earth Caretaker Award Recipient
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Paul Tower
President and CEO of Applied Filter Technology, in Snohomish, WashingtonPaul Tower is the recipient of UW-Green Bay’s first Alumni Earth Caretaker Award. Tower graduated from UW-Green Bay in 1978 with a Master’s Degree in Environmental Arts and Sciences and an emphasis in process engineering.
Tower has focused his career on improving the environment with technology. He is President and CEO of Applied Filter Technology (AFT), in Snohomish, Wash., a firm that designs, builds, and operates waste gas recovery processes for use in energy production. His company provides the technology to create biogas energy from green wastes, such as lumber byproducts and landscaping trimmings. For the city of Madison, for example, technology created by AFT helps the Wisconsin Waste Water Treatment Plant process waste by a methane digester to produce electricity and heat used for plant operations. AFT has 167 operational sites in North America and 300 internationally.
The Earth Caretaker Award is to be presented annually to an alumni with a distinguished professional record, who is highly regarded for accomplishments in the areas of sustainability, environmental management, environmental policy or other closely related areas.
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Paul Tower to receive UW-Green Bay’s first Alumni Earth Caretaker Award
Inside — April 20, 2010
Tower spreads the biogas message
Inside — April 23, 2010
The Future of Energy & Reduction in Greenhouse Emissions
Tower's April 22 presentation at UW-Green Bay
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