N.C. Sustainability Award Winners Announced

Sustainable North Carolina, a Raleigh-based nonprofit that works to promote sustainable growth and natural resource conservation, this week announced the recipients of its 2004 Sustainability Awards. The winners were lauded for finding ways to make more efficient use of natural resources.

“We initiated the North Carolina Sustainability Awards in 2002 to honor businesses in our state that have recognized the realities of a changing global business climate,” says SNC Executive Director Alan Briggs. Originally called Save Our State, the organization changed its name earlier this year.

The winners in the business category are Blast Internet Services of Pittsboro for its green building and landscape, Cherokee Investment Partners of Raleigh for its brownfields redevelopment work and Wyeth Vaccines in Sanford for an innovative environmental awareness program.

Winners in the government category are the N.C. HealthyBuilt Homes Program in Raleigh, which promotes green building statewide; Sustainable Sandhills, a project to promote sustainable development and commerce that involves six counties, the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources and Fort Bragg; and the Triangle J Council of Government’s biodiesel rebate program, which promotes the use of alternative fuel.

The nonprofit winners are Advanced Energy’s N.C. Sustainable Building Design Competition, which introduces environmentally sustainable design and construction practices to college students across the state; the Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA for its green building in Pittsboro; and the N.C. Botanical Garden’s planned Visitor Education Center in Chapel Hill, which will promote sustainable gardening methods.

For a PDF document with more details on the winners, click here.