Sentences with phrase «first environmental award»

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Lodi Rules ™ is California's first 3rd - party - certified sustainable winegrowing program and has received significant recognition over the years, having been awarded the Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA) in 2006 and again in 2014.

The Lodi Winegrape Commission created Lodi Rules ™, California's first third - party - certified sustainable winegrowing program, which recently won Gov. Brown's annual Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA)-- the highest environmental award in the state of California — for its mission to address major environmental, economic and social challenges facing California's agricultuEnvironmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA)-- the highest environmental award in the state of California — for its mission to address major environmental, economic and social challenges facing California's agricultural induAward (GEELA)-- the highest environmental award in the state of California — for its mission to address major environmental, economic and social challenges facing California's agricultuenvironmental award in the state of California — for its mission to address major environmental, economic and social challenges facing California's agricultural induaward in the state of California — for its mission to address major environmental, economic and social challenges facing California's agricultuenvironmental, economic and social challenges facing California's agricultural industry.

Created in 2005, LODI RULES ™ is California's first 3rd - party - certified sustainable winegrowing program and has received significant recognition over the years, having been awarded the Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA) in 2006 and again in 2014.

The Rainforest Alliance Certified ™ seal is awarded to farms that have met the environmental, social and economic standards of the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN), a coalition of local conservation organizations that first set the standard for sustainable farming in rainforest areas in the early 1990s.

The awards, which return to recognise the most Innovative Robotic Machinery, Partnership of the Year and the prestigious Lifetime Achievement award will also, for the first time, recognise the innovative and varied steps manufacturers or end users have taken in the adoption of green measures in their businesses in the new «Environmental Initiative of the Year» category.

«The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund's small grant awards are a much - needed first step in reversing the long history of environmental abuse that the Greenpoint community has suffered,» said State Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, who represents North Brooklyn, inEnvironmental Fund's small grant awards are a much - needed first step in reversing the long history of environmental abuse that the Greenpoint community has suffered,» said State Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, who represents North Brooklyn, inenvironmental abuse that the Greenpoint community has suffered,» said State Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, who represents North Brooklyn, in a statement.

Former winners of the awards include Naomi Mitchison, a senior hardware engineer at Selex ES, Abbie Hutty, a spacecraft engineer currently working on Europe's first Rover Mission to Mars and Yewande Akinola, an environmental services engineer with a passion for innovation and sustainable water supply.

Environmental Advocates notes that Hanna is backed by last year's recipient of the Oil Slick Award, Sen. Lee Zeldin, whose political action committee is contributing to all of the first - time GOP Senate candidates this year.

The project, first announced by the County Executive in the fall of 2012, utilizes funding from a two - year grant awarded the state's Center for Environmental Health by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, (ATSDR) and was one of only two awarded nationally in that grant round.

Most relate to climate, environmental, and social science, but the new request appears to reflect a much more ambiguous filter: For the first time, it contains several awards in the physical sciences, including one that has led to patented software to detect whether a computer has been taken over by malicious software and another that explores a long - standing mathematical puzzle.»

In 2013 and 2014 the New England Newspaper and Press Association awarded her first place in environmental reporting and second place in investigative reporting, respectively, for her coverage of the New Bedford Harbor Superfund site.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Environmental Practice Award Winner: Lutley Primary School, Halesowen Commended: St Bartholomew's First School, Crewkerne South Otterington Church of England Primary School, Northallerton

The award - winning facility is the first and only manufacturing facility to be a Gold Certified Leader in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).

Awarded a major grant to conduct an exhaustive study of the deteriorating environment of the Arctic by the Pew Charitable Trusts (the first time Pew has given such a grant to a journalist), Los Angeles Times environmental reporter Marla Cone traveled across the Arctic, from Greenland to the Aleutian Islands, to find out why the Arctic is toxic.

At the Environmental Finance award ceremony on 28 March, ABN AMRO won first prize in the category «Green Bond Awards 2018 Lead Manager of the Year — category banks».

Hilton Worldwide is the first major multi-brand hospitality company to make sustainability measurement a brand standard and recently earned ISO 9001 and 14001 certifications for quality and environmental management - one of the largest volume certifications awarded for commercial buildings.

Early in 2015, Princess Heights Luxury Boutique Hotel officially became the first hotel in St. Maarten awarded with the «Green Key Certificate» by the International Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE).

Legendary Caribbean hotelier Heinz Simonitsch, who defined luxury hospitality and environmental sustainability, will receive the first Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association Icon of Hospitality Award.

Square Enix award - winning first - person environmental puzzle game has made its way to PC today, landing on Europe...

His first book, The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature (Viking, 2012), was winner of the National Academies» Best Book Award for 2013, finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, winner of the 2013 Reed Environmental Writing Award, winner of the 2012 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature, runner - up for the 2013 PEN E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and winner, in its Chinese translation, of the 2016 Shenzheng Dapeng Nature Writing Award.

The first award was handed out today to both New Zealand (related to persistent energy subsidies) and Belgium, for having «environmental leadership as murky as a tall glass of weisse beer.»

In 2004, for the very first time in its history, the Nobel Committee awarded its prestigious Peace Prize to an environmental activist.

And our first Water Award goes to a plant that was committed to finding a unique solution to flue gas desulfurization wastewater treatment that values both environmental protection and economic rationality.

Society of Environmental Journalists The 2006 First Place Award for Reporting on the Environment for «Borderlands» by Molly Peterson in recognition for outstanding coverage, radio reporting: large market.

The award, which was first given in 2010, was begun as a way to affirm that all people, regions, and countries have a share in solving our planet's environmental problems.

Now I'm not so sure if I should be depressed or excited, because it seems a little late in the game for Canada to be having their first national environmental youth awards and it's the maker of a detergent who's really running the competition.

Canada's First National Environmental Youth Awards Recognize Kids Who Are Helping the Environment

The Ambrose Hotel, in Santa Monica, CA, was just awarded the first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Existing Buildings (LEED - EB) Certification by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) for a

In the eight years since we released that first film, our nine award - winning animated movies have garnered more than 50 million online views around the world and encouraged viewers to support hundreds of environmental projects and campaigns with their time, energy and money.

Futerra teamed up with the Ethical Fashion Forum and Anti-Apathy to create the RE: Fashion Awards - the world's first ever awards to celebrate improving social and environmental standards in the fashion indAwards - the world's first ever awards to celebrate improving social and environmental standards in the fashion indawards to celebrate improving social and environmental standards in the fashion industry.

In 2017, we won «International Law Firm of the Year» at the African Legal Awards, and also retained our title as «Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Team of the Year» for our work on BHP Billiton's first - of - its - kind Forests Bond.

Since establishing our philanthropic arm in 1939 with the Seattle First Citizen Award to honor community - minded residents of the greater Seattle area, we've continued to pursue leadership opportunities for our members through innovative programs like The REALTORS ® Environmental Council.