It's time to apply for our Environmental School Awards! Nominate your school for recognition of their outstanding environmental efforts over the 2011-12 school year!  Applications are due on May 25. 

Environmental Community Awards

The annual Environmental Community Awards celebration recognizes outstanding environmental leadership and achievement by honoring businesses, non-profits, schools and individuals with the Environmental Star of Excellence award. Submitted projects, programs or service are judged from May to May and must positively benefit the Plano community and its environment. The award categories include the following:

Business

	Environmental Commitment - Recognizes a company's passion and commitment in implementing a diversion initiative which goes beyond impacting its immediate organization.
	Green Building - Recognizes a building or facility that incorporates significant sustainable features.
	Organic Recycling - Recognizes a company's efforts and results in participating in the City's organic recycling program which primarily collects and reuses food materials in developing Texas Pure Products.
	Single-Stream Recycling - Recognizes a company's efforts in a diversion program highlighting the collection of single-stream recyclables and detailing resulting benefits.

 2012 ESOE Business Application

Community

These awards highlight and celebrate successful local projects and organizations. Projects should promote or incorporate one or more of the following practices:  waste minimization, recycling, composting, litter prevention, beautification, water conservation, energy conservation, air quality initiatives or other green practices. Award categories are specifically designed to recognize the following:

	Multi-family Communities
	Non-profits (includes faith-based entities)
	Educational Institutions (any level)
	Neighborhood Group/Homeowner Association

Partnership

The Community Partnership Award recognizes an organiztion who has partnered with the City of Plano to accomplish an environmental objective which benefits the Plano community, or compels residents to take action to protect the environment in some way.

Individual

The Community Outreach Award honors an individual who has been instrumental in reaching out to the community to promote environmental and sustainability programs and/or educate residents about issues which impact environmental quality in Plano.  (These can be environmental initiatives independent of City of Plano programs. The nominee may have been involved in a number of different types of initiatives or only one.)

 2012 ESOC Community-Partnership-Individual Application

Presentation of Awards
Applications will be reviewed immediately following the deadline.  Winning recipients will be notified by telephone prior to the awards banquet.  Awards will be presented at a luncheon in September.  

Additional Information
Please call (972) 769-4130 if you have any questions or require additional information.

 

 

Environmental School Awards

The City of Plano Environmental Education & Community Outreach Division promotes programs that educate and involve students in activities resulting in an increased awareness about and concern for our environment.  The Environmental School Awards are designed to recognize schools and school groups that make outstanding contributions towards involving Plano students in environmental activities and programs throughout the school year. 

These awards are open to all  PISD schools, regardless of location and grade level.

Award Categories

Awards will be presented in the following categories:

	Clean Campus Award
	Outstanding Campus Beautification Award
	Outstanding Composting Award
	Outstanding Environmental Awareness Group

 2012 ESOE Educational Institution Application

 

Submission Information

Applications may be mailed or delivered to the following:

Mailing Address: 

City of Plano
Environmental Education & Community Outreach Division
P. O. Box 860358
Plano, Texas 75086-0358

Physical Address: 4200 West Plano Parkway (2nd Floor)
(between Coit and Ohio; turn South at light at Commerce St., at stop sign, turn right and follow access road to 4200 W. Plano Pkwy.)

Deadline

Applications must be received in our office by 5 p.m. on Friday, May 25, 2012 for Environmental School Awards or Friday, August 1, 2012 for ESOE Community Award – Educational Institutions.

Presentation of Awards

Applications will be reviewed immediately following the due date.  Winning recipients will be notified by telephone prior to the awards banquet.  Awards will be presented at the Environmental Community Awards Program in September.

Additional Information

Please call 972-769-4130 if you have any questions or require additional information.