Growing Green Nominations Open

Fidele Bauccio, founder and CEO of Bon Appétit Management Company, posted a blog about the Natural Resource Defense Council’s 2010 Growing Green Awards, which honor leaders in the sustainable food movement. Bauccio was the 2009 winner in the Business Leader category for his work addressing the connection between food and climate change as part of Bon Appétit’s Low Carbon Diet Initiative.

As Bauccio explains, “The Growing Green Awards recognize the extraordinary contributions that advance ecologically integrated farming practices, climate stewardship, water stewardship, farmland preservation and social responsibility from farm to fork.”

The nomination process is now open for the following four categories: Food Producer (farmers or other food producers, including aquaculture, who employ innovative techniques to sustain agriculture, the natural environment, workers and community), Business Leader (entrepreneurs who effectively use the marketplace to promote sustainable food systems, develop infrastructure that enables producers to be more sustainable, or advance sustainable innovations anywhere along the supply chain from farm to fork),Thought Leader (visionaries who advance sustainability as it relates to food through creative research, public education, and outreach) or Water Steward (farmers or other food producers who have made extraordinary contributions in demonstrating water efficiency, sustainable water use and the protection of water quality).