Vancouver Foundation Wants Your Vote
October 12, 2011—Starting today, Vancouver residents can take part in the Generation Green Vote,
by voting on which green ideas they’d like more of in their neighbourhood.
Nineteen environmental projects — created by young people aged 6 to 24 — were awarded up to $12,500 by Vancouver Foundation earlier this year. These projects are now complete, and this is your chance to vote for your favourite theme. Go to Vancouver Foundation’s Generation Green website (www.vancouverfoundation.ca/awards) for more information. There, you can choose from six project themes:
- ecosystem restoration
- sustainable food
- green energy
- gardening
- composting and
- recycling.
Want more community gardens? Or clean energy? Or recycling in your neighbourhood?A composter in every kitchen? Vegetables growing on the boulevard?
Vote for some great green ideas. Vote for your single favourite theme, or vote for all of them. You don’t need to register. You don’t need a ballot. You don’t need ID. Just a keyboard, and two fingers. Go to www.vancouverfoundation.ca/awards and vote. Voting closes October 23 at midnight.
Results of the Generation Green Vote will be announced at the end of October.
The winning theme will receive funding from Vancouver Foundation to kick off next year’s Generation Green program.
Vancouver Foundation launched the Generation Green Awards last January, as part of its commitment to environmental initiatives, and to help celebrate the City of Vancouver’s 125th anniversary. Cash awards of up to $12,500 were offered for environmental projects created by young people aged six to 24. Nineteen projects were chosen by an independent panel of youth and environmental experts. The Generation Green Program also included an on-line green quiz and photo contest.
For more information:
Christine Faron Chan
Communications Manager
Vancouver Foundation
604-688-2204
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Vancouver Foundation helps build more vibrant and resilient communities in BC. We do this by harnessing the gifts of energy, ideas, time, and money of caring citizens to make meaningful and lasting impacts. We are Canada’s largest community foundation and we’ve been investing in communities since 1943.
