New nominees have been announced for the 2011 Katerva Awards in global sustainability.
Recently announced nominees and their projects:
- Researchers at Innowattech and Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel develop a new way to generate clean energy by converting mechanical energy from highways and railroads into electricity.
- Martin Wikelski, Director of Ornithology at the Max Planck Institute, works to establish a global tracking system to follow the migration of small animals.
- Recyclebank develops program to deliver consumer incentives for recycling.
- GSMA mWomen Programme addresses barriers to women’s ownership of mobile phones.
- Ushahidi’s open source crowdsourcing and mapping software deploys crisis information in real-time.
- The FishNET project develops a low-cost, collaborative monitoring system to stop illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing in international waters.
Nominees of the Katerva Awards undergo a rigorous evaluation process involving 300+ recognized experts, 6 filtering phases, and 12 stages of focused review to discover the best of the best. The Katerva Award Council is the very last step in this process. Read more about the Award Council at http://bit.ly/fZGIgZ.
An awards ceremony for the winners will be held at Lincoln Center in New York City December 7, 2011.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Sponsorships of the 2011 Katerva Awards allow organizations and individuals to associate themselves with the most important sustainability initiatives worldwide.
For information on remaining sponsorship spots, contact Katerva CEO Terry Waghorn at +1-519-473-6891 or by email at [email protected].
About the Katerva Awards
The Katerva Awards are an annual set of awards for the very best sustainability initiatives on the planet. The Awards recognize winners in the following 10 categories of sustainability: Food Security, Behavioral Change, Economy, Protected Areas, Gender Equality, Materials & Resources, Human Development, Energy & Power, Transportation, and Urban Design. Learn more about the Katerva Awards at http://www.katerva.org, or follow Katerva on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/katerva or Twitter: http://Twitter.com/katerva.
To learn more about Katerva nominees or to contribute directly to their efforts, read about their initiatives at Katerva’ s website “katerva.org, featuring links directly to Nominee sites.
