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The Overall Green Business Award
You cannot formally enter this category, as the winner will be selected by the judges from all the winners of the other categories. |
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The Green Leader Award
This award will go to the person that has made a significant contribution to the tackling of climate change or improving the environment in Ireland. Entrants can nominate themselves. The judges or members of the public can also nominate individuals, but if you are nominating someone please check first that they are happy to have their name put forward. |
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The Green Supply Chain Award
This award is open to any organisation that has implemented a green supply chain strategy that requires the suppliers they use in their core business enterprise to adhere to a specific set of guidelines to ensure optimal green practices throughout the chain. |
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The Green Building Award
This award will go to the most interesting sustainable non-housing Irish building completed since 1st January 2011. This category is open to all non residential buildings or developments - offices, educational, leisure, hotels, industrial, public sector - anything not sure for residential use. |
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The Green Residential Building
This award is for the sustainable Irish housing project completed since 1st January 2011. It is open to one-off single homes or projects involving multiple units - e.g. apartment blocks to larger housing developments. |
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The Green Energy Award
Open to any company that is involved in providing alternative energy supplies or a technology enabling the more efficient production of alternative energy.
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The Green Professional Services Award
Open to any accountancy, law firm, and management consultancy practice operating in Ireland who can demonstrate their commitment to developing sustainable business practices. |
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The Green Travel Initiatives Award
This award is open to both public and private organisations which can demonstrate a comprehensive programme of actions, and commitment to the promotion of more sustainable forms oftravel, in terms of employee commuting, business travel and/ or fleet vehicles. |
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The Waste to Business Resource Award
This new category is designed to recognize those company's that turn the waste created by one process into a resource which can then be used in the creation of a new business opportunity.We want to see examples where the ‘re-use and recycle' approach creates revenue and employment while at the same time diverting materials away from landfill. Please Note: Submissions which involve recovery are not suitable for entry- this award is specific to reuse and recycling. |
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The Green Retailer Award
Open to any Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland retailer with a policy on green procurement and local sourcing of goods. Internet retailers are also eligible, and any size of business can enter. |
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The Green School/College Award
Open to any school or college in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland where teachers, pupils, families and otherstakeholders take part in a structured programme to ensure the school takes a lead in protecting the environment for future generations. |
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The Green SME Award
If you are a Small to Medium sized Enterprise (SME) that has implemented a green strategy designed to reduce the impact your business makes on the environment as you deliver yourproducts and services, then you should consider entering this award. |
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The Green Product Award
This award will go to the product introduced to the Irish market in the past 12 months which provides an eco-friendly solution as effective as its non-environmental equivalent. It could be a cleaning product, a service or anything that enables people, businesses and communities to create a more sustainable future. A key criteria is that it is an effective replacement ofnon-green traditional alternative. |
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The Green Entrepreneur Award
The award is open to people who have themselves set up a new start-up green business, or to long established entrepreneurs who have spotted an opportunity and invested in or supportedthe launch of a new "green" business. The judges will be particularly impressed by new ventures that show considerable long-term employment growth potential. |
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The Green Innovation Award
Open to all technologists and innovators who have developed a new product or service that has made a positive contribution to the environment. This award is open to anyone who has devised a new process, product or innovation that is delivering Environmental benefits. |
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The Green County Council Award
Open to county councils who have provided a comprehensive array of green-enabling services and who have actively encouraged businesses and consumers in the communities they serve tobecome greener in outlook and practice.
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The Green Community Award
Open to any village, town or city or community group that is leading the way in ensuring a collective approach to more sustainable living. |
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The Green Healthcare Award
This award is open to any healthcare facility, of any size, public, voluntary or private, that can demonstrate a comprehensive programme to minimise the environmental impact of it's serviceswhile optimising outcomes for patients. |
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The Green Entertainment & Leisure Award
This award is open to any business operating in the food, drink, entertainment and hospitality sector who can demonstrate a comprehensive programme to minimise the impact that theirbusiness operations is having on the environment. |
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The Green Communications Award
This award is for a campaign that creatively and efficiently communicated a green message across multiple media channels. |
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The Green Financial Institution Award
Open to any lending institution on the Irish market that can demonstrate their commitment to developing more sustainable business practices. |
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The Green Corporate Citizen Award
This award recognises businesses and organisations that enrich both the environmental and social fabric of its local communities and beyond. A candidate for this award recognises the benefit of an integrated approach that drives value for people, profit and planet. So if your company has "done its bit" and has had a real impact, tell us about it and what you've achieved. |
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The Green Large Manufacturer Award
This award is open to any large manufacturer (500 employees plus) in Ireland who can demonstrate a ground-up best environmental practice in all aspects of running a large manufacturing business.
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