The 2010 Kaua`i Green Innovation Awards
Guidelines
Guidelines: The Kapa`a Rotary’s Kauai Green Innovation Awards recognizes and honors local businesses, individuals and government agencies that have gone above and beyond environmental compliance and have adopted and/or have exhibited leadership in developing the most innovative “green” practices in the past 12 months.
Categories:
• Large businesses (500 or more employees)
• Medium-size businesses (100 to 500 employees)
• Small businesses (less than 100 employees)
• Individuals
• Government agencies
Being Green: Initiatives will be judged on a combination of innovation, environmental impact and effectiveness. Each entry should describe in detail your most innovative best green practices over the past 12 months and how they have benefitted the environment. Feel free to complete a separate entry for each innovative initiative. Examples of green activities include:
• Reducing/recycling/reusing
• Energy efficiency (electricity, transportation)
• Renewable generation (i.e. biofuels, PV, etc.)
• Leadership (i.e. zero waste, energy/climate change, leading/educating others)
Criteria: Your green initiatives will be scored according to the following criteria:
• Innovation: Explain how you broke new ground from the norm, i.e., putting photovoltaic on your roof is the norm and isn’t as valuable as forging into new territory.
• Environmental Impact: This is where bigger is better. Impact can be measured — in kilowatt hours, miles per gallon, carbon dioxide, etc.
• Effectiveness: Describe how much cost and effort went into achieving the impact. Show how you achieved the result with less effort and less expense.
• Scales Up: Really good ideas will scale up so that others can follow suit and do the same thing. An idea that is very specific and only works once in one situation is inherently less valuable.
Entry Deadline: All entries must be received by Friday, March 19, 2010.
Selection Process: Winners will be selected in each category by a panel of judges — consisting of Rotary Club of Kapa`a members and local “green” experts. Award winners will be announced at the fourth annual 2010 Kauai Green Innovation Awards luncheon on Wednesday, April 28, 2010.
Questions? Call Melissa Mojo at 822-0545.
Send entries to: m2mojo@m2mojo.com or fax to 808-822-0547.
Entry Form
Contact Name:_____________________________________________________
Business Name (if applicable): _______________________________________
Address:__________________________ City:___________________________
Zip:_________ Phone: __________ Fax: ________ Email: ________________
Website: __________________________________________
Feel free to use as much space as needed to describe your green initiative.
Initiative Description
Please detail the innovative and new “green” actions you’ve taken within the past 12 months.
Initiative Outcome
Using the criteria outlined in the guidelines, explain and quantify the effectiveness, scale and overall environmental benefits you achieved. Be as descriptive as possible.
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