Beth Ferguson, assistant professor of design, has won an Austin Green Award for the creation of a solar charging station in the city of Austin. Ferguson’s firm Sol Design Lab was the driving force of the project. 

The completed project, Electric Drive: The Future of Renewable Energy Mobility, is located on West 2nd Street in Austin.  

The Austin Green Awards aim to highlight a next generation of sustainably inspired best practices and heighten the visibility of a broad spectrum of exemplary initiatives in Austin, Texas. Awardees will set an aspirational bar of what is possible by responding to rapidly evolving environmental, social, and health imperatives.