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Institute will honor green city in 2011
August 30, 2010
Do you live in a green community or a sustainable city? If so, the Institute for Sustainable Development wants to know. In a partnership with Next American City and Partners for Livable Communities, the Institute for Sustainable Development will make its first Green Plus City Award for a U.S. or Canadian town or city that has demonstrated exemplary leadership in making its community more sustainable.
Award finalists will be announced on Feb. 26, 2011, at the North Carolina Research Triangle Park Foundation, and the award ceremony will be held next May in Washington, D.C. The deadline for nominations is Dec. 15.
“This award takes a broad view of social, economic and environmental sustainability,” said John Cary, president and CEO of Next American City. “Together with the Institute for Sustainable Development, we’re looking for innovative approaches, new models and measurable impact in cities of all kinds across the country.”
The Institute for Sustainable Development is a non-profit partnership of university and business leaders with the mission of helping smaller enterprises and their communities become more sustainable while fostering a new generation of sustainability leaders and promoting dialogues about the theory and practice of sustainability across cultures
Next American City is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting socially and environmentally sustainable economic growth, examining how and why our built environment, economy, society and culture are changing.
Click here to view the guidelines and to nominate a city.
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