Deadline: 19-Apr-22
Do you know someone who has worked hard to protect, preserve or enhance the environment? If yes, then show your appreciation by submitting a nomination for the Saanich Environmental Awards.
Award categories
- Individual
- Volunteer Organization
- Business
- Youth (individual/youth group/school)
- Biodiversity Conservation
- To recognize local conservation efforts towards a species, habitat or ecosystem.
- Long-Term Environmental Achievement
- To recognize a lifetime of local environmental effort by an individual.
- Sustainability
- To recognize a local contribution towards sustainability, integrating environmental, social and economic values.
Award Eligibility
- You can nominate anyone as long as their environmental work impacts Saanich.
- If the nominee works in an environmental field, share how their work exceeds their job requirements.
- Members of the Environment and Natural Areas Committee, Saanich staff and Saanich Council cannot receive awards.
- Nominations must be submitted by the deadline, signed (submitted by paper) or by personal declaration (submitted on-line).
- Past recipients can receive awards for different projects in these award categories: Business, Individual Citizen, Long-Term Environmental Achievement and Youth.
- Saanich Environmental Awards recognize people and organizations making a positive contribution to the natural environment in Saanich. The awards are not limited to Saanich residents, but the effect of the nominee’s work must be in their municipality. If the nominee is employed in an environmental field, the nomination should indicate how their work exceeds their job requirements. Members of the Environment and Natural Areas Committee (ENAC), Saanich staff and Saanich Council are not eligible to receive awards.
Evaluation criteria
The Environmental and Natural Areas Advisory Committee evaluates nominations on:
- Award purpose and eligibility
- Duration of efforts: how long the initiative took to accomplish as a measure of effort
- Magnitude of effort: the amount of personal effort involved
- Long-term effect of efforts: the legacy, the sustainability of outcomes
- Significance of efforts: how far reaching were the outcomes in the greater community
- Use of innovation: new techniques, tools, audiences, etc.
- Past efforts: other accomplishments that show a history of effort
For more information, visit https://www.saanich.ca/EN/main/community/natural-environment/saanich-environmental-awards/how-to-nominate-someone.html