Celebrating sustainability champions in our community

05 June 2019

Council seeks nominations for inaugural Tweed Sustainability Awards

It’s World Environment Day today – a great day for Tweed Shire Council to open nominations for the inaugural Tweed Sustainability Awards.

Nominate yourself, your school, a local business, farmer, building project, club, group or event which is helping to protect and enhance the Tweed’s beautiful natural environment.

Mayor of Tweed, Councillor Katie Mine said it’s the first time Council has held these awards, providing an opportunity to celebrate and promote the amazing initiatives of our community that are making a positive change.

“It’s a chance for us to share the stories about what is being done across our community to protect and enhance our internationally significant environment and mitigate the impacts of climate change for current and future generations,” she said.

“These awards are to show how much we appreciate and value the people, groups, schools and businesses across the Tweed who are working every day to reduce their environmental impact,” Cr Milne said.

Sustainability means balancing environmental, economic and social impacts to satisfy the needs of the present without affecting future generations’ ability to meet their needs.

Council’s Program Leader – Sustainability Debbie Firestone is looking forward to seeing the fantastic showcase of nominations come through.

“Each nomination sends a message that sustainability is important for the whole community and we would encourage anyone across the Tweed to nominate themselves, or someone else for one of these awards,” she said.

There are three award categories, and you can nominate for one or all three:

· Regenerative Agriculture Award

· Wildlife and Habitat Conservation Award

· Tweed Sustainability Award

There will also be an opportunity for the community to vote on their favourite entry via the people’s choice voting.

Nominations close at 4.30pm on Monday 2 September 2019 and award winners will be announced on Friday 15 November 2019.

For more information and to nominate for the awards visit www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/SustainabilityAwards or check out Council’s Facebook page for a video about the awards.

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Caption: Spreading the message about the Tweed Sustainability Awards at the World Environment Day event at Murwillumbah on Sunday were Council’s Unit Coordinator Natural Resource Management, Jane Lofthouse and Project Officer – Biodiversity, Michael Corke.