Deadline: 14-Feb-23
Alberta Emerald Foundation is inviting applications for the 32nd Annual Emerald Awards to showcase organizations, projects, and individuals from across Alberta that are working to address environmental and climate change issues.
The 32nd Annual Emerald Awards will be held on June 7, 2023, at The Citadel Theatre in Edmonton.
Emerald Award Categories
- Legacy Categories:
- Celebrating an organization or individual’s legacy of environmental excellence in addressing and mitigating the effects of local, regional, and global environmental issues:
- Business: Showcasing an organization engaged in commercial, industrial or professional activities that has demonstrated a meaningful commitment to an environmentally sustainable future.
- Community Group or Nonprofit: Recognizing associations dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view that have demonstrated a significant commitment to the environment through their actions.
- Education: Acknowledging those that have raised the bar by showing leadership and creativity in educating students of all ages about environmental matters.
- Government: Recognizing all levels of government whose ongoing commitment sets the example of environmental leadership and advocates sustainability as a major consideration in governance.
- Youth: Recognizing people, 25 years of age and under, who have made meaningful contributions and have taken positive action to improve the environmental health of their community.
- Lifetime Achievement: Celebrating environmental leaders who, throughout their lifetime, have made contributions of outstanding environmental significance.
- Celebrating an organization or individual’s legacy of environmental excellence in addressing and mitigating the effects of local, regional, and global environmental issues:
- Project Categories:
- Showcasing the Albertan environmental projects and initiatives that have addressed and mitigated the effects of local, regional, and global environmental issues by achieving excellence in:
- Water: Recognizing projects and initiatives that demonstrate excellence through the monitoring, management and/or stewardship of water and watersheds.
- Air: Recognizing projects and initiatives that improve air quality.
- Land: Recognizing projects and initiatives that demonstrate excellence in sustainable land use.
- Energy: Recognizing projects and initiatives that positively support the evolution of their province’s energy systems.
- Waste Management: Recognizing projects and initiatives that innovate the repurposing, reduction, and disposal of waste in an environmentally-conscious way.
- Infrastructure: Recognizing environmental advancements in the ways they design, build, and travel.
- Wildlife & Biodiversity: Recognizing projects and initiatives that protect and conserve natural habitats and wild species.
- Public Engagement and Outreach: Recognizing programs and initiatives that educate and empower the broader public by teaching the necessary skills to make informed environmental decisions and take responsible action.
- Shared Footprints Award: Recognizing those who have exemplified land and water stewardship, built shared knowledge, improved air quality, reduced land disturbances, and encouraged ecotourism.
- Showcasing the Albertan environmental projects and initiatives that have addressed and mitigated the effects of local, regional, and global environmental issues by achieving excellence in:
Award Information
- A $2,000 grant to support their work or to donate to an environmental charity of their choice
- A profile of their work throughtheir Sharing Stories program, which includes the Emerald Documentary Series, What On EARTH Can they Do? podcast, and Emerald Speakers Series
- A certificate and Emerald Awards recipient logo to commemorate their achievement
- A feature on their website
Eligibility Criteria
- Nominations must be first-party, with the exception of their Lifetime Achievement Award
- The nominated project, organization, or individual must be based in Alberta and/or benefit Albertans
- Nominations must include a third-party reference letter
- All nominations are reviewed by a third-party panel of judges who choose a maximum of three nominations per category to be shortlisted, one of which will be named as the recipient.
- Nominations are scored based on the following:
- Degree of environmental benefits and impact
- Degree of community impact
- Alignment with The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
- Alignment with the Seventh Generation Principle
For more information, visit Alberta Emerald Foundation.