Hello everybody!
Get yourself prepared to read about the promising Energy Globe Award.
The Energy Globe Award is an
environmental award that honours projects from all over the world which
conserve and protect resources or employ renewable energy. The Award presents
successful sustainable projects to a broad audience and thereby shows and
informs about good and feasible solutions that already exist for many of our
environmental problems. With some 800 submissions from 177 countries annually
the award ranks amongst the most prestigious environmental awards worldwide.
Everyone individual, private or public institution,
companies, NGOs, etc. are eligible to submit a project to the Energy Globe
Award and the submission is free of charge. Applicants can either be awarded
with the International Energy Globe Awards the so called World Award or the
National (country) Energy Globe Awards.
The World Award has the five categories earth, fire,
water, air and youth. In the category Fire, for instance, all projects which concern energy production, the use of
renewable fuels, energy distribution and transport, energy utilization and
energy optimization and efficiency are eligible for submission. In the category Air the focus is on projects
involving optimization of combustion processes, reduction of greenhouse gases
or emissions, indoor air quality and other projects that contribute to
improving air quality or avoiding CO2-emmissions. The 1st
price winners of each category are awarded a price of 10.000 €.
The National Energy Globe Awards are given to the best
project submissions from a country focusing on energy efficiency, renewable
energies and the conservation of resources.
The evaluation of the submitted projects is carried
out by a jury of five internationally well known members that are all well acquainted
in the field of environmental sustainability. The Award winners benefit from
the award by receiving broad public and international attention that often
generates great opportunities for them to carry on and expand their important
work. Also it informs others about the manifold and creative solutions that
already exist to tackle environmental problems and make life more comfortable
and sustainable.
Further information on the award and how to participate
can be acquired on the website http://www.energyglobe.info/.
The website also
contains a project database listing all internationally and nationally awarded
projects with project descriptions.
