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Nominate your local hero for a Heart of Green Award!

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Local Hero Heart of Green Award

(Photo: Doug Goodman)

Last year, The Daily Green recognized Greg Perry, a schoolteacher in Ohio, as the first recipient of its Local Hero Heart of Green Award. Greg empowered his marketing class at Beachwood High School in Ohio to stage the Green Dream, the largest green products and services expo in Ohio.

The extraordinary class project raised $150,000 in 2008 and exceeded that mark in 2009 — all to create the Ultimate Green Classroom, a model classroom completely refurbished with sustainable, nontoxic materials, powered by the sun and open to the school and to the community. And he did it all while battling cancer.

Adamant that the Green Dream live on, he taught his class by Skype and made a courageous appearance at The Daily Green’s Heart of Green Awards that brought the audience to tears. (He’s doing great by the way, and is back leading his class.)

We learned about Greg from you, the readers of The Daily Green. We asked for nominations for the local hero award, and received 40 inspiring stories of real people making a real difference.

We’re ready to get inspired all over again.

With the Heart of Green Awards, we honor those people, organizations and companies that have taken the green message to the mainstream — to the “heart” of the American people. We honor those people who strike a chord with regular people. We honor those who help us all live a more earth-friendly lifestyle.

Who in your community deserves to be recognized? Is it the organizer of a local farmers’ market … or the local farmer herself? Maybe it’s the shopkeeper who refuses to sell suspect plastics … or the construction worker who donated his time to weatherize neighborhood homes. Is it the mayor who installed solar power panels on the town hall … or the watchdog who held the mayor accountable for a bad decision?

Whoever you think is deserving, we want your nominations. Tell us, and the rest of The Daily Green audience, why your nominee deserves to be recognized as a Local Hero with a Heart of Green. We’ll recognize many of the nominees by publishing your accounts of their good deeds on The Daily Green, and the winner will receive his or her award at the Heart of Green Awards ceremony this April in New York City.

Get inspired by Greg’s incredible acceptance speech, and then scroll down for the nomination guidelines.

Heart of Green — 2010 Local Hero Guidelines

  • Keep your nomination succinct — about 250 words. Explain why your nominee deserves to be recognized for bringing the green message to your community. If we highlight your nominee, your writing will appear on the site, so make a succinct persuasive case to The Daily Green audience.

  • Attach a quality photo of the nominee that The Daily Green has permission to publish.

  • Include email and telephone contact information so we can reach both you and the nominee.

  • Email nominations to TDG senior editor Dan Shapley. Write “Heart of Green nomination” and the nominee’s name in the subject line.

  • State how you know or are affiliated with the nominee. Disclose any and all business interests.

  • If you are nominating someone who has been previously nominated, you must submit a new nomination that adheres to the 2010 guidelines.

  • Send nominations by Friday, March 5.

  • Nominations may be published at the sole discretion of The Daily Green, and must adhere to our Community Guidelines and Terms of Use.

  • Winners will be chosen at the sole discretion of The Daily Green.

 

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