Sierra Club Announces Green awards 2.0
The Sierra Club announced the organization’s “Green Energy & Green Livelihoods Achievement Award” winners for India. The award recognizes community initiatives to promote green economic development, adaptation of renewable energy alternatives and organizational leadership in a grassroots environmental campaign. The award represents Sierra Club’s growing interest in building international partnerships to address climate change mitigation and adaptation across India.
The Sierra Club’s Carl Pope recognized several Sierra Club supporters as most responsible for leading the organization’s outreach in India, a new product of the organization’s multifaceted Climate Recovery Agenda.
“Without a doubt, this timely new program would never have come about were it not for the tireless efforts in of Sunil Deshmukh, Sadhana Shenoy, Pritpal Singh Kochhar, Sanjay Ranchod, Dr. Mohan Durve, Anil Deshpande, our friends at the American India Foundation, and my wife Shahnaz, a Mumbaiker herself. Volunteers are the backbone of the Sierra Club,” Pope continued. “In this case they were also the brains, the feet, the arms, the legs, and the heart.”
“For more than 100 years the members of the Sierra Club have harnessed public demand for conservation and for reducing natural resource consumption in the United States. But neither America nor India can win the battle against climate change alone,” said Sadhana Shenoy of Portland, Oregon and a member of the Sierra Club’s India Advisory Council. “We must share resources and do this together.”
“I joined the Sierra Club because they are advocating so vociferously for U.S. emissions reductions, for global agreements that address climate equity or for increased international funding for climate adaptation and mitigation,” said Sunil Deshmukh, a Miami, Florida Sierra Club member and a driving force behind the organization’s outreach to India. “Our citizens must lead so our governments will follow,” he continued.
“We learned in this process just how strong and vibrant Indian civil society is,” said Mills. “Every single person we contacted gave us valuable advice on what our role as a U.S. based organization should and should not be in India. We are especially grateful though, to our Nominators who took time to submit nominations, and to our Recommendation Board members who volunteered their own time to evaluate the achievements of our nominees. This was not an easy task. Every single one of our nominees is worthy of recognition.”
Mills singled out for praise several prominent Indian leaders who helped with the development of the program including Raj Chengappa, Managing Editor, India Today; Darryl D'Monte Chair, Forum of Environmental Journalists; Dr. Anita Deshmukh, Executive Director, PUKAR; Kumar Ketkar, Chief Editor, Loksatta; Malini Mehra, Director, Center for Social Markets; Mohan Deshmukh, Chair of the Indian Builders Association, Mr. M.N. Chaini, President, Indian Merchant's Chamber; and, Dr. Erach Bharucha, Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Environment Education and Research. Sierra Club consultants Swamprabha Das in New Delhi and Karla Bookman in Mumbai have also made invaluable contributions, he said.
Over the past year and a half the Sierra Club sought the assistance of some of India’s leading environmental, business, social service and arts communities to form an India-based Nominations Committee and Recommendation Board. In response to the appeal NGOs from all across the country sent nominations for consideration. Of those, some 14 were found to have met the Sierra Club’s award criteria. In February of this year, the India Recommendation Board met in Mumbai to evaluate nominated organizations and to send their recommendation of semi-finalists forward to the Sierra Club’s India Advisory Council in the U.S. for final decision
The Recommendation Board and Advisory Council members examined recent community-based organizational achievements that have broadened public support for green livelihoods. Grassroots initiatives rather than scientific, academic or governmental activities merited greater consideration. The jury also considered efforts to promote green economic empowerment, the creation of green jobs, adaptation of renewable energy alternatives and initiatives that have inspired others in the green movement.
Some of the prominent nominating organizations for this year’s awards included the Development Alternatives Group, the Ashoka Foundation, Sanctuary Asia, Centre for Environment Education, Central Himalayan Environment Association, the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, ATREE, Yerala Projects Society, Sambandh, Foundation for Ecological Security, Bombay Natural History Society, AID Orissa and the UNDP/GEF Small Grants Program.
The awards are scheduled for Thursday, July 30th at the Ravindra Natya Mandir auditorium in Mumbai .
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The Sierra Club announced the organization’s “Green Energy & Green Livelihoods Achievement Award” winners for India. The award recognizes community initiatives to promote green economic development, adaptation of renewable energy alternatives and organizational leadership in a grassroots environmental campaign. The award represents Sierra Club’s growing interest in building international partnerships to address climate change mitigation and adaptation across India.
The Sierra Club’s Carl Pope recognized several Sierra Club supporters as most responsible for leading the organization’s outreach in India, a new product of the organization’s multifaceted Climate Recovery Agenda.
“Without a doubt, this timely new program would never have come about were it not for the tireless efforts in of Sunil Deshmukh, Sadhana Shenoy, Pritpal Singh Kochhar, Sanjay Ranchod, Dr. Mohan Durve, Anil Deshpande, our friends at the American India Foundation, and my wife Shahnaz, a Mumbaiker herself. Volunteers are the backbone of the Sierra Club,” Pope continued. “In this case they were also the brains, the feet, the arms, the legs, and the heart.”
“For more than 100 years the members of the Sierra Club have harnessed public demand for conservation and for reducing natural resource consumption in the United States. But neither America nor India can win the battle against climate change alone,” said Sadhana Shenoy of Portland, Oregon and a member of the Sierra Club’s India Advisory Council. “We must share resources and do this together.”
“I joined the Sierra Club because they are advocating so vociferously for U.S. emissions reductions, for global agreements that address climate equity or for increased international funding for climate adaptation and mitigation,” said Sunil Deshmukh, a Miami, Florida Sierra Club member and a driving force behind the organization’s outreach to India. “Our citizens must lead so our governments will follow,” he continued.
“We learned in this process just how strong and vibrant Indian civil society is,” said Mills. “Every single person we contacted gave us valuable advice on what our role as a U.S. based organization should and should not be in India. We are especially grateful though, to our Nominators who took time to submit nominations, and to our Recommendation Board members who volunteered their own time to evaluate the achievements of our nominees. This was not an easy task. Every single one of our nominees is worthy of recognition.”
Mills singled out for praise several prominent Indian leaders who helped with the development of the program including Raj Chengappa, Managing Editor, India Today; Darryl D'Monte Chair, Forum of Environmental Journalists; Dr. Anita Deshmukh, Executive Director, PUKAR; Kumar Ketkar, Chief Editor, Loksatta; Malini Mehra, Director, Center for Social Markets; Mohan Deshmukh, Chair of the Indian Builders Association, Mr. M.N. Chaini, President, Indian Merchant's Chamber; and, Dr. Erach Bharucha, Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Environment Education and Research. Sierra Club consultants Swamprabha Das in New Delhi and Karla Bookman in Mumbai have also made invaluable contributions, he said.
Over the past year and a half the Sierra Club sought the assistance of some of India’s leading environmental, business, social service and arts communities to form an India-based Nominations Committee and Recommendation Board. In response to the appeal NGOs from all across the country sent nominations for consideration. Of those, some 14 were found to have met the Sierra Club’s award criteria. In February of this year, the India Recommendation Board met in Mumbai to evaluate nominated organizations and to send their recommendation of semi-finalists forward to the Sierra Club’s India Advisory Council in the U.S. for final decision
The Recommendation Board and Advisory Council members examined recent community-based organizational achievements that have broadened public support for green livelihoods. Grassroots initiatives rather than scientific, academic or governmental activities merited greater consideration. The jury also considered efforts to promote green economic empowerment, the creation of green jobs, adaptation of renewable energy alternatives and initiatives that have inspired others in the green movement.
Some of the prominent nominating organizations for this year’s awards included the Development Alternatives Group, the Ashoka Foundation, Sanctuary Asia, Centre for Environment Education, Central Himalayan Environment Association, the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, ATREE, Yerala Projects Society, Sambandh, Foundation for Ecological Security, Bombay Natural History Society, AID Orissa and the UNDP/GEF Small Grants Program.
The awards are scheduled for Thursday, July 30th at the Ravindra Natya Mandir auditorium in Mumbai .
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