Deadline Extended For CRBI's Greenie Awards

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The deadline to submit nominations for the Coosa River Basin Initiative’s Greenie Awards has been extended to Thursday, Dec. 31, the organization said Thursday.

The awards, which will be presented at the organization’s Green Gala in April, will recognize individuals, businesses, industries, local governments and organizations making considerable efforts to protect the upper Coosa River basin, which is considered to be the most biologically diverse basin in North America.

Awards will be presented in the areas of sustainability, innovation, land protection, water conservation and outdoor recreation.

All individuals, businesses, industries, local governments and non-profit organizations living in or doing business in the 5,000-square-mile upper Coosa River basin are eligible for the awards.

Nominations can be submitted online at www.coosa.org/events/green-gala.

“This is an opportunity to celebrate what’s being done in Coosa River communities to improve our quality of life and keep our rivers clean,” said CRBI Executive Director David Tucker. “Our hope is that by recognizing these efforts and promoting them we can enlist more people and businesses in similar efforts.”

At the organization’s inaugural Green Gala held in April, the city of Lyerly, the Rome law firm of McRae, Stegall, Peek, Harman, Smith and Manning, Calhoun-based Mohawk Industries, Cartersville’s Anheuser Busch Brewery and Rome’s Green Carbon, Inc. were recognized.

The upper Coosa River basin includes the Georgia counties of Lumpkin, Dawson, Fannin, Pickens, Gilmer, Cherokee, Forsyth, Fulton, Cobb, Paulding, Polk, Bartow, Floyd, Chattooga, Walker, Whitfield and Murray as well as Cherokee County in Alabama.

Entities or individuals living or doing business in these areas are eligible for the awards. For more information, contact Tucker at 706-232-2724 or dtucker@coosa.org.

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Image via Coosa River Basin Initiative