http://www.greenlivingonline.com/OurWorld/nominate-your-grassroot-environmental-hero/
(Nov 28, 2007)
It's time for those frontline greenies to be honoured. The Canadian Environment Awards is now accepting nominations for its 2008 awards. 
Honouring environmental heroes
The Canadian Environment Awards has launched its seventh year of celebrating grassroots environmental achievement with an annual call for nominations from the Canadian public. This Celebration of Community Achievement is a national, bilingual program that recognizes individuals and groups of Canadians who have made outstanding contributions to the protection, restoration and preservation of the Canadian environment.
The Community Awards, which honours environmental action at the local level, is the flagship program of the Canadian Environment Awards. Since 2002, more than 500 community-based projects and programs have been nominated for recognition, and 115 have advanced as finalists.
There are six environmental categories to choose:Climate Change; Conservation Environmental Health Environmental Learning Restoration & Rehabilitation Sustainable Living. "Canadians have made it known that the environment is their number-one priority," says managing director Paula Prociuk Blacklock. "By recognizing peer examples of leadership, the Canadian Environment Awards is motivating all Canadians to undertake new and innovative initiatives. Each of our award winners is dedicated to influencing thinking within their community. It is important that Canadians help us recognize their local heroes."
Time is running out
Following the close of nominations on December 7, 2007, a panel of judges representing the geographic diversity of Canada will choose three candidates in each category as finalists in the Community Awards. The biographies of all finalists will be published in the Canadian Geographic June 2008 Special Report on the Environment and in Géographica.
The Gold and Silver Award winners will be announced at a gala held during Canada's Environment Week on June 2, 2008, in Toronto. Gold Award winners will receive a cash prize of $5,000, and all Silver Award winners will receive $2,500. All of these winners will donate the prize money to the not-for-profit environmental cause of their choice.
On that night, the Canadian Environment Awards will also present the Citation of Lifetime Achievement; the Ideas for Life Award; and The Green Team Challenge, which is the youth initiative.
The Canadian Environment Awards was established in 2002 by Canadian Geographic Enterprises with the support of the Government of Canada and private-sector companies. A copy of the nomination form is available from Canadian Geographic along with nomination guidelines.
Editor: Read about the 2007 winner in our article Celebrating Canada’s enviro-heroes.
Nominate your grassroots environmental hero
Honouring environmental heroes
The Canadian Environment Awards has launched its seventh year of celebrating grassroots environmental achievement with an annual call for nominations from the Canadian public. This Celebration of Community Achievement is a national, bilingual program that recognizes individuals and groups of Canadians who have made outstanding contributions to the protection, restoration and preservation of the Canadian environment.
The Community Awards, which honours environmental action at the local level, is the flagship program of the Canadian Environment Awards. Since 2002, more than 500 community-based projects and programs have been nominated for recognition, and 115 have advanced as finalists.
There are six environmental categories to choose:
Time is running out
Following the close of nominations on December 7, 2007, a panel of judges representing the geographic diversity of Canada will choose three candidates in each category as finalists in the Community Awards. The biographies of all finalists will be published in the Canadian Geographic June 2008 Special Report on the Environment and in Géographica.
The Gold and Silver Award winners will be announced at a gala held during Canada's Environment Week on June 2, 2008, in Toronto. Gold Award winners will receive a cash prize of $5,000, and all Silver Award winners will receive $2,500. All of these winners will donate the prize money to the not-for-profit environmental cause of their choice.
On that night, the Canadian Environment Awards will also present the Citation of Lifetime Achievement; the Ideas for Life Award; and The Green Team Challenge, which is the youth initiative.
The Canadian Environment Awards was established in 2002 by Canadian Geographic Enterprises with the support of the Government of Canada and private-sector companies. A copy of the nomination form is available from Canadian Geographic along with nomination guidelines.
Editor: Read about the 2007 winner in our article Celebrating Canada’s enviro-heroes.
1 Comment
posted Feb 23, 2008 - 4:06 am by Shelley Wolf
I went on the website to nominate my environmental hero on Feb 22/08, but the site said that the nominations were already closed. Your ad in the Star stated the deadline was Feb.29/08. I am very disappointed that I am not able to submit my nomination. You need to check your dates!!
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