2012 Green Plus Sustainable Enterprise Awards Nomination Form |
1. Introduction
Deadline: January 31, 2012 (Midnight)
The Green Plus Sustainable Enterprise Awards were created to recognize smaller employers for their exceptional triple-bottom-line sustainability efforts and for the examples they set in their communities.
Nomination Guidelines
The Green Plus Sustainable Enterprise Awards are not only about ‘green’ (environmental) programs -- they are an effort to recognize and encourage a balanced approach to community engagement, environmental stewardship, and good business management generally. We seek to promote traditional organizations engaging in extraordinary practices while raising awareness around the importance of sustainability in their communities.
Award nominees can expect be notified by the Institute selection committee between February 29th and March 15th.
Rules
-Any smaller enterprise (an organization of under 500 employees) in the United States or Canada may be nominated for a Green Plus Sustainable Enterprise Award.
-There is no fee to be nominated.
-There is no required membership in any organization to be nominated.
-Winners of juried Green Plus Sustainable Enterprise Awards may not win a juried award two years in a row.
-Nominees may not be related to or have an existing business relationship with staff or board members of the Institute for Sustainable Development.
About the Institute
The Institute for Sustainable Development is a non-profit organization that helps smaller enterprises and their communities to become more sustainable, foster a new generation of sustainability leaders, and to promote dialogues about the theory and practice of sustainability across cultures. Green Plus, the Institute’s flagship program, exists to educate, network, and reward small enterprises in their triple bottom line efforts. Through Green Plus, the Institute strives to help smaller enterprises learn from one another as well as from experts and specifically seeks to celebrate enterprises that are trailblazers -- innovating sustainable practices that one might not associate with a given business sector.
Visit the following link to learn about past Green Plus Sustainable Enterprise Award winners:
http://www.gogreenplus.org/2010/06/18/green-plus-north-american-sustainable-enterprise-award-winners-announced/
The Green Plus Sustainable Enterprise Awards were created to recognize smaller employers for their exceptional triple-bottom-line sustainability efforts and for the examples they set in their communities.
Nomination Guidelines
The Green Plus Sustainable Enterprise Awards are not only about ‘green’ (environmental) programs -- they are an effort to recognize and encourage a balanced approach to community engagement, environmental stewardship, and good business management generally. We seek to promote traditional organizations engaging in extraordinary practices while raising awareness around the importance of sustainability in their communities.
Award nominees can expect be notified by the Institute selection committee between February 29th and March 15th.
Rules
-Any smaller enterprise (an organization of under 500 employees) in the United States or Canada may be nominated for a Green Plus Sustainable Enterprise Award.
-There is no fee to be nominated.
-There is no required membership in any organization to be nominated.
-Winners of juried Green Plus Sustainable Enterprise Awards may not win a juried award two years in a row.
-Nominees may not be related to or have an existing business relationship with staff or board members of the Institute for Sustainable Development.
About the Institute
The Institute for Sustainable Development is a non-profit organization that helps smaller enterprises and their communities to become more sustainable, foster a new generation of sustainability leaders, and to promote dialogues about the theory and practice of sustainability across cultures. Green Plus, the Institute’s flagship program, exists to educate, network, and reward small enterprises in their triple bottom line efforts. Through Green Plus, the Institute strives to help smaller enterprises learn from one another as well as from experts and specifically seeks to celebrate enterprises that are trailblazers -- innovating sustainable practices that one might not associate with a given business sector.
Visit the following link to learn about past Green Plus Sustainable Enterprise Award winners:
http://www.gogreenplus.org/2010/06/18/green-plus-north-american-sustainable-enterprise-award-winners-announced/