The Edison Awards winners were announced on March 25, 2020. The Sorbent Polymer Extraction And Remediation System (SPEARS) technology by ecoSPEARS took the gold award for the Energy & Sustainability category. SPEARS is a NASA-developed green remediation technology consisting of plastic spikes embedded in a scalable geotextile mat liner which, when deployed into contaminated sediments, absorbs legacy toxins such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxin, polychlorinated dibe

Hey there, ecoSPEARS readers! As we reflect on all the happenings of the 2010s and the last twelve months that have gotten us to this point, we here at ecoSPEARS hope that you’ve been able to take and share some pearls of wisdom from our posts. Was there anything in particular that stood out for you? Leave a comment below and let us know! Today we wanted to share an informational blog to help scratch that conference itch some of you may be feeling for 2020. So today, we’re go

Seasoned Professional Engineer Joins Cleantech Company Ushering in the Carbonless Future of Environmental Cleanup ecoSPEARS, a cleantech solutions company with transformative NASA-developed environmental cleanup technologies, announced today that Michael J. Dickey is joining the company as Director of Applied Technologies. Dickey brings over 20 years of environmental engineering experience, including remedial project design and managing teams to complete large-scale cleanup p

On June 6th, ecoSPEARS left Orlando, Florida and headed to Washington, D.C. to represent NASA on Capitol Hill. The exposition, “NASA Technology Day on the Hill”, highlighted a handful of NASA-developed technologies that have been commercialized for impacts in global markets to shape our future for generations to come. From cutting-edge satellites which aim to help put humans on Mars, to transformative technologies that are restoring the health of life here on Earth, the event