Guest feature: Laura Armstrong is the Sustainability Coordinator for the Maryland Department of the Environment. Follow along with MDE @MDEnvironment.
It’s time to get recognized! Has your organization reduced its environmental impacts and saved money through energy and water conservation, waste minimization and other environmental best practices? Share your success and gain recognition by applying for a Maryland Green Registry Leadership Award. Applications are due April 27, 2016.
What is the Maryland Green Registry?
The Maryland Green Registry is a free membership program that promotes and recognizes sustainable practices at organizations of all types and sizes across the state. It is not a certification program, but rather a public forum to share environmental best practices that yield both environmental benefits and cost savings. Last year, members reported saving over $102 million through these practices. Businesses and organizations are welcome to join anytime throughout the year.
What are the Maryland Green Leadership Awards?
The annual Leadership Awards are presented to organizations that have demonstrated a strong commitment to sustainable practices, measurable results, and continual improvement. Past winners have typically accomplished this by setting annual goals, tracking results, maintaining active green teams and repeating this process year after year.
Do I have to be a big company to win?
No, not at all! The winning combination of active green teams, annual goals, measurement, and commitment to continual improvement applies equally across all organizations types and sizes. In fact, several past winners have included organizations with fewer than 20 employees and have provided outstanding examples of employee engagement and commitment.
How do I apply?
Applicants must be a member of the Registry, but it’s free, easy to join, and there’s plenty of time to become a member before the April 27 awards deadline. Complete the member profile form by sharing at least five environmental practices and one measureable result.
Applying for the award is even easier. You’ve already shared information through your profile so the application asks for brief responses to two questions that will help draw the attention of the judging panel to your key practices, results and examples of commitment to continuing improvement. Click here for the application.
Winners will be announced at the 7th Annual Maryland Green Registry Membership and Awards event on Tuesday, June 14, 2016, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at the World Trade Center in Baltimore.
This networking event is cosponsored by the Maryland Department of Environment and the Maryland Department of Commerce and will be held in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council, Maryland Chapter.
Contact Laura Armstrong at 410-537-4119 or at green.registry@maryland.gov with your questions.
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