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ELIGIBILITY
Nominations
will be accepted from individuals, organizations or businesses.
You may nominate yourself or your company/organization as well as another
company, individual or organization you believe is worthy of recognition.
Self nominations in the Enviornmental Stewardship and Environmental
Leadership categories will not be accepted. Applicants/projects must:
- Be located in New Jersey, and;
- Be active within the past year, and;
- Agree to have their project shared with
others through a written case study to appear in an awards program.
Third party nominations must be accompanied by a
written authorization from the nominated party agreeing to consideration
for the award.
The NJDEP, other State agencies and NJDEP employees
are not eligible.
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JUDGING CRITERIA
All applicants must answer the following
five questions. The answer to each question may not exceed
one typewritten page.
1. DOCUMENTED ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT (30 Points)
What
is your best documentable estimate of the overall environmental
benefits of this program/project or individual accomplishment over the
past year? For example: pollution prevented, resources or energy conserved,
etc.
2.
MEETING NEEDS (20 points)
How does this program/project
or individual accomplishment contribute to the environmental
needs of the state of New Jersey? Describe such issues as originality,
effectiveness in improving existing methods of meeting this need
and the risks that were overcome.
3. LEADERSHIP/INNOVATION
(15 points)
How
does this program/project or individual show leadership and
take steps beyond “traditional” environmental
protection efforts?
4. COVERAGE AND REPLICABILITY
(20 points)
How
does this program, project or individual have a long-term
impact on their business, community, region or the state?
How replicable is the project to other areas i.e., across
media areas, into other locations, industries or states?
5.
EDUCATION AND OUTREACH (15 points)
What
education and/or outreach activities were undertaken for
affected individuals (employees, stakeholders, contractors, consultants
etc.)? How can others in a similar line of work use what has been done
to learn from these efforts?
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SCORING/EVALUATING
A panel of judges from the NJ Department of Environmental
Protection management staff and Board of Directors of NJCAT will evaluate
all applications.
Each of the judging a criterion has an associated
point value identified in the aforementioned judging criteria section. Total
possible points for each applicant is 100. Applications will only be
scored on the answers to the five judging criteria. It is, therefore,
not necessary to submit extraneous materials as they will not benefit
your application.
The administrators of the awards program reserve the
right not to give an award in any category. All decisions of the
judges are final.
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SUBMITTALS AND DEADLINES
Please submit three (3) copies of your application (PDF version for printing / MS Word version for completing and submitting electronically) along with
responses to the five (5) judging criteria. NJDEP Office of the Commissioner
must receive all applications by close of business on September 19,
2008.
New
Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Office of
the Commissioner
401 E. State Street
P.O. Box
402
Trenton , New Jersey 08625
Attention:
Barbara Marshall
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AWARD
CATEGORIES (select one)
One award will be issued in each of the nine categories
listed below. You must identify the category of your nomination on the
application form.
I. CLEAN AIR - Nominees in this
category should demonstrate a commitment to and experience
in one or more of the following areas and activities:
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions or equivalents through energy
efficiency projects or green power purchases.
- Reducing outdoor exposure to toxic air contaminants.
- Reducing air deposition loading to land and water.
II. CLEAN AND PLENTIFUL WATER - Nominees
in this category should demonstrate a positive influence in one or more
of the following areas and activities:
- Improving surface or ground water quality.
- Ensuring sufficient quantities of water to through
reuse and conservation techniques.
- Promoting or developing progressive land use policies and watershed
management approaches to improve protection of surface and groundwater
sources.
III. HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS - Nominees
in this category should demonstrate a commitment to and experience
in programs or techniques that have resulted in the restoration, protection
and enhancement of the State’s
ecological resources: including wetlands, estuaries, coastal areas;
and, non-game and endangered species.
IV. INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY - Nominees
in this category should demonstrate the use or deployment of a new
or alternative method, procedure, process, system or facility, which
is not considered to be a “proven technology.” Nominees
in this category should demonstrate how this technology resulted
in greater continuous environmental protection, security or economic
growth than other technologies in current practice or comparable results
at lower costs in terms of energy, economics or environmental impacts.
V. LAND CONSERVATION - Nominees in this category should demonstrate a commitment to
and experience in the preservation of open space that protects land
from future development.
VI. SAFE AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES - Nominees
in this category should demonstrate a commitment to and experience
in one or more of the following activities:
- Innovative practices or technologies that have resulted in the
private or public sector clean up and redevelopment of contaminated/brownfields
sites.
- Any activity that reduces or eliminates pollution/waste
at the source or treats the materials in an environmentally safe manner
prior to recycling or disposal.
- Creation of community-based initiatives that foster involvement,
action and effective solutions to the adverse effects of industrial
pollution in communities of color and low-income communities.
VII. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION/STUDENT
LED PROJECT - This award will
be given to a student, group of students or class that has planned and
implemented a project/program with measurable positive environmental
impacts.
VIII. ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP - This
award will be given to an individual who volunteers time
with an environmental, academic or community-based
organization in the state.
IX. ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP - This
award will be given to an individual who has shown leadership
in the promotion of environmental protection in their profession.
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