Save The Bay accepting nominations for annual awards

SAVE THE BAY is accepting nominations for its 2017 Environmental Achievement Award and Alison J. Walsh Award for Outstanding Environmental Advocacy.
SAVE THE BAY is accepting nominations for its 2017 Environmental Achievement Award and Alison J. Walsh Award for Outstanding Environmental Advocacy.

PROVIDENCE – Save The Bay is accepting nominations for its 2017 Environmental Achievement Award and Alison J. Walsh Award for Outstanding Environmental Advocacy.
Nominations will be accepted for the annual awards through April 7.
The Environmental Achievement Award is presented to individuals, corporations or organizations that have demonstrated outstanding leadership and commitment to the environmental protection of Narragansett Bay and its watershed.
The Alison J. Walsh Award for Outstanding Environmental Advocacy is awarded to an individual who has displayed an extraordinary commitment to the environmental protection of Narragansett Bay and its watershed through advocacy, community leadership and/or direct action. The winner receives a $1,000 cash award.
“Save The Bay’s success in protecting and improving Narragansett Bay over the past nearly 50 years has depended on the active involvement and stewardship of countless others. This is our small way of honoring and recognizing some of them. We encourage community members to nominate those who exemplify dedicated stewardship of Narragansett Bay and its watershed,” Save The Bay Executive Director Jonathan Stone said in a statement.
Nominations can be submitted online at www.savebay.org/annualawards or by contacting Maureen Fogarty at mfogarty@savebay.org or (401) 272-3540. Winners will be announced and awards presented at the organization’s Annual Meeting and Taste of the Bay event on June 15.
Last year’s award recipients were:

  • Lifetime Achievement Award — Eugenia Marks, of Providence, former senior director of policy at the Audubon Society of Rhode Island
  • Environmental Achievement Award — Julie Sharpe, of North Kingstown, president of the Narrow River Land Trust in the Saunderstown section of North Kingstown
  • Environmental Achievement Award (posthumous) – Michael Brown, of Jamestown, founder and former president of Packaging2.0
  • Alison Walsh Award for Outstanding Environmental Advocacy — Bob Aldrich, of Bristol, president of Save Bristol Harbor

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