In partnership with Take 5 Magazine, we – the Yellow Point Ecological Society (YES) – are launching a quest to find our Green Champions, and give them the recognition they deserve in the April issue of Take 5.
If you know someone who deserves recognition, please nominate them. Send a 250 words description of their work to yellowpoint2020@gmail.com, along with their name, address, phone, email, and their willingness to be nominated, by Monday March 10th, 2025 (midnight)
Our boundaries are the Take 5 readership area, from Crofton in the south to Cable Bay and Jack Point in the north, from the ocean in the east to the mountains in the west. As for Duncan, Nanaimo, and Gabriola – we encourage you to organize your own Green Champions awards!
If there are published stories that reference their work, so much the better – please include the links. If you want to nominate your husband, son, or step-niece twice removed by your second marriage, best find someone else to nominate them. If two or three of you want to nominate someone together, so much the better.
Do you know a teacher, professor, or school board trustee who goes out of their way to share their love of nature with their students?
Do you know perhaps a local business owner who makes a special effort to minimize waste, avoid harmful emissions, and make a difference on the Earth?
Is there a planner, engineer, city councillor, or Regional Director who you know to be a champion for nature? Perhaps even a Mayor?
Maybe you know an Indigenous person or elder who understands the importance of our connection with nature, and goes out of their way to share their knowledge.
Maybe there’s a volunteer who loves a particular place that is threatened with harm, perhaps due to real estate development or logging, and is working to save it.
Or is there someone who works with children, getting them out into the woods, getting them familiar with the mosses, lichens, and caterpillars, the worms and bugs who live in the soil, the trees and plants, and the birds with whom we share our home?
Maybe you know a farmer who cares about nature on the farm, who goes out of their way to protect nesting birds, to set aside special areas, and grow food without spreading toxic chemicals on the land.
Maybe you know someone who protects nature silently as an investor, avoiding companies that harm nature and investing instead in ventures that restore and protect nature and the climate.
Maybe there’s an author, a children’s book writer, a singer, artist, or a magician who uses their skill to weave inspirational magic and make people fall in love with nature.
Or maybe you know a scientist who is working to help us better understand the climate crisis, the biodiversity crisis, or the mysteries of plant consciousness.
And maybe there’s a fisher or a marine biologist who treasures the ocean, who goes out of their way to keep the plastic trash and fishing gear out of the sea.
The judging panel will be the Board of YES, so none of us or our immediate family can be nominated. Sorry, Uncle Jim! The award will be a feature in April issue of Take 5, and a mystery recognition yet to be revealed. Instead of April Fool’s Day, it will be Nature’s Jewels Day. If there’s a business that would like to sponsor this yet-to-be-revealed ceremony, please let us know.
The deadline for nominations is Monday March 10th.
Send them to yellowpoint2020@gmail.com. Thankyou!
The small print:
The Directors of YES are not eligible to be nominated.
Yellow Point Ecological Society 