Keep on Truckin’ Hybrid Style This FedEx truck delivered an environmentally friendly message to the Kennedy School in May. On display in the school’s courtyard, the truck was equipped with a hybrid diesel-electric engine that burns cleaner and achieves much better gas mileage than most other delivery trucks on the road. In recognition, the Kennedy School delivered an award to the three organizations that designed the truck. FedEx Express, Environmental Defense, and Eaton Corporation won the 2005 Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership, which is coordinated by the Belfer Center’s Environment and Natural Resources Program. Two Kennedy School alumni participated in the project as members of the Environmental Defense team (pictured, from left): Elizabeth Sturcken MPP 1996, project manager, and Gwen Ruta MPA 1995, director of corporate partnerships. The award honors “an outstanding partnership project that enhances environmental quality through the use of novel and creative approaches.” FedEx plans to make the hybrid a standard replacement vehicle for its 30,000 medium-duty trucks. “This project demonstrates that hybrid trucks can be a practical, economically viable alternative and could become the industry standard,” said Henry Lee, director of the ENRP at the Belfer Center.