Propose a candidate with a food theme for the City of Helsinki’s Environmental Award

This year the Helsinki Environmental Award will go to a recipient whose environmental achievement is related to food. The City of Helsinki is looking for a Helsinki company, organisation or person who in their activities combines safety and health in foodstuffs with an environmentally friendly approach.

The environmental award has been granted since 2008

The logo of the Helsinki Environmental Award depicts a river pearl mussel. When a foreign object – a grain of sand, for example – gets inside the mussel, it tries to get rid of the object. The object is encapsulated and becomes a pearl.

The Environmental Award is intended to highlight what happens when Helsinki focuses the attention of its inhabitants and companies on the city environment. When the city gets rid of waste and other things that ruin the environment, it may become a pearl – the pearl of the Baltic Sea.

Food is the theme for 2011

A candidate for the Environmental Award can demonstrate their ecological thinking in foodstuff production and transportation, energy consumption, product selection, waste management or overall environmental management. New technology projects and a literary or audiovisual product can also be accepted for consideration.

The recipient of the 2011 award can be a Helsinki company, non-profit organisation, private individual, city department or company, such as a school, daycare centre or similar entity. The winner will be granted unlimited use of the Helsinki Environmental Award logo.

Participate and win dinner

Proposals, complete with justification, should be submitted by Thursday 15 September 2011. You can participate or propose a candidate here (in Finnish of Swedish). A dinner coupon for two at a restaurant holding the environmental logo will be raffled off among the submissions.

The City of Helsinki Environmental Centre will prepare a summary of the award proposals for the Environment Committee, and Deputy Mayor Pekka Sauri will select the winner. The winner will be announced on 3 November 2011 at www.hel.fi/ymk.