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Previous GreenCircle Award Winners
Participate in the GreenCircle Sustainability Award Program
If you’ve made Connecticut cleaner and greener, you deserve to be considered for a GreenCircle Sustainability award. Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), is challenging everyone in Connecticut to do a little extra to help improve the quality of life in our beautiful state.
Since 1998, DEEP'S GreenCircle Award Program has recognized businesses, institutions, individuals, and civic organizations who participated in energy conservation, transportation, pollution prevention or recycling related activities or projects that promoted natural resource conservation or environmental awareness. The GreenCircle program is now focused on overall sustainability. Through this program, we want to recognize those who took a holistic approach to reducing the environmental impact and resource demands of their operations and activities during the 2016 calendar year. Your sustainability efforts might include everything from energy conservation, to reducing your need for water, to increasing the recycling of materials at your facility. So in nominating yourself for this award program tell us about the entirety of your work to conserve energy, and resources, and to be a better steward of our planet. When you do so, make sure to tell us about the results of your program – like how much you are saving in dollars and in resources. The GreenCircle Sustainability Award is meant to reward your efforts. The methods by which you accomplish your goal may come from the type of activities listed under Sustainability Components. Who's eligible? Any business, institution, individual or group operating or living in the State of Connecticut is eligible to participate.
Sustainability Components Facility-wide Initiatives (may include certification)
Energy & Climate Change
Water
Materials Management/Recycling
Civic Improvements
Innovation
Benefits of the GreenCircle Sustainability Award Program Recognition as a member of the Commissioner’s GreenCircle Sustainability Award program includes a certificate of commendation, listings in press releases, and presence on the DEEP website. The GreenCircle Sustainability Award program is also a partnership between DEEP and the Hartford Business Journal and its CT Green Guide. As a result, this program will be promoted in those publications and winners will be featured in them. The Hartford Business Journal will also host award winners at a special recognition ceremony.
You must complete and submit the GreenCircle Sustainability Award Program Application Form electronically. (Note: To ensure the application can be submitted electronically, it is best to save the file to your computer and then open with Adobe Reader. Tips for Viewing and Using Fillable PDFs) Application requires applicant information, brief explanation of your project and the results. Applications must be received by March 10, 2017 for project activities completed between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2016. You will be sent an email acknowledging receipt of your application within 5 business days. Evaluation Criteria All applications received by the deadline are evaluated based on the following criteria:
Judging Process An advisory committee comprised of members of the community and DEEP reviews and evaluates all applications submitted by the deadline. DEEP will notify the award winners from each sector in writing. Any Questions? For further information about the GreenCircle Sustainability Award program, contact DEEP's Office of Communications at DEEP.GreenCircle@ct.gov or call 860-424-3110. We look forward to hearing what you have done to improve our environment!
Finalists and Award Recipients See the full list of 2017 finalists (for work and projects conducted in 2016) and view the profiles of the 2017 winners. See the full list of 2016 finalists (for work and projects conducted in 2015) and view the profiles of the 2016 winners. 1998-2015 Green Circle Award Recipients Content Last Updated January 2018 |
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