criteria
Outstanding youth leadership and project impact
“Outstanding leadership” means that you played a major leadership role in creating, organizing and implementing your project or campaign. We are looking for the person with the vision, motivation, and leadership skills that made the project or campaign work.
We gauge impact by how your efforts benefited the environment and community in terms of measurable results (e.g. acres of wildlife habitat protected or restored, number of people engaged in social issues because of the project, numbers of children no longer exposed to toxins, etc.), as well as movement-building and raising awareness.
Conservation
CONSERVATION is work to eliminate or decrease our use of natural resources and our negative impacts on ecosystems and communities. For example:
A campaign that plays a substantial role in organizing a local community to pass a public transportation initiative
A project that significantly reduces energy use on a school campus by requiring passive solar design and the use of efficient appliances in all school facilities.
Preservation
PRESERVATION is work to protect ecosystems, species, indigenous cultures and other irreplaceable elements of the world's natural heritage. For example:
There are a wide variety of wildlife species in Kenya, whose habitats are threatened by the encroachment of man and the poachers that live in rural Kenya.
Forestry output has also declined because of resource degradation.
Restoration
RESTORATION is work to re-establish the healthy functioning of ecosystems; parts of ecosystems; and human communities that manage ecosystems. For example:
A project that reclaims an abandoned urban lot, creates an organic garden.
A campaign that works to eliminate carbon emissions and mitigates the impacts of global warming.
