Awards - CT

2012 Aquarion Environmental Champion Awards

Help Aquarion find and recognize Connecticut’s top environmental volunteers!
 
Think of a person, non-profit, or company who has made a real difference to our environment. It could be through a volunteer effort to protect our water sources. Improve air quality. Safeguard farmland. Or improve wildlife habitat. You’ll find all the criteria below.
 
And don’t be shy about telling us what you’ve achieved. We welcome self-nominations and renominations!
 
We will announce the winners on June 2, 2012 at a special event to be held at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo. U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal will be on hand to honor the winners, as will Commissioner Daniel Esty of the Department of Energy & Environmental Protection and John DeAugustine, Group Publisher of Hearst Media Services of Connecticut.
 
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, right, presents Aquarion Water Company's 2011 Environmental Champion Award to Steve Arena, left, and Tony Rizzo of Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. Commissioner Daniel Esty, Department of Energy & Environmental Protection   John DeAugustine, Group Publisher - Hearst Media Services of Connecticut
 
 
So send in your nomination today. Click here for the Online Award Nomination Form or here to download the Award Nomination Form PDF. You’ll find the Nomination Guidelines and Tips here.
 
Awards
 
  • Adult, business and non-profit: $2500 grant to the
    environmental non-profit of each winner’s choice
  • Student (Grade 9-12): $1000 savings bond

 Criteria

Awards will be given to volunteer projects that excel at:
 
  • Significantly contributing to the improvement of environmental quality through the protection, conservation, restoration and/or stewardship of natural resources:
    • Air
       
    • Water
       
    • Soils
       
    • Plant and wildlife communities
       
  • Demonstrating a high achievement level
     
  • Creating sustainable or reproducible results  
Any nominated program must have been in place for one at least one year prior to submission, with the exception of a student nomination, which may have been proposed as a school project within the previous 90 days.
 
Nomination Deadline
 
All nominations must be received via our website or through the mail by May 1, 2012.
 
Click here for the Online Award Nomination Form or here to download the Award Nomination Form PDF.