If you are replacing a conventional garden with native vegetation, trying to create a greener environment for your living space or maybe you are protecting the wildlife in your area by building or protecting a wildlife habitat.

Who’s Eligible?

Nominees must be cottagers, cottage-lake residents, or a group of cottagers* in Canada.

Entrants to the 2007 Green Cottager Awards may re-enter their nominations in the 2008 Green Cottager

Awards, with the exception of the 2007 award recipients, who are not eligible for re-nomination.

Nominated achievements must be located at a cottage or cottage-lake residence or in a cottaging community in Canada.

Nominated achievements may be conservation-related (e.g., shoreline restoration) or building-related (e.g., designing a green cottage). Other activities helping to preserve the natural environment at a cottage, lake residence, or cottaging community are also eligible.

Nominees under the age of consent in their province or state must have consent from their parent or legal guardian to enter.

Employees (and immediate family members of employees and those with whom such employees are domiciled) or agents of Cottage Life or Quarto Communications, their respective advertising and promotion agencies, and the awards judges are not eligible.

How to Enter:

All nominations must be received in the Cottage Life offices no later than Monday, July 16, 2007.

Download the nomination form. Complete the form and mail, with supporting essay, as well as photographs, illustrations, and technical drawings (if applicable), to 2008 Green Cottager Awards, Cottage Life, 54 St. Patrick St., Toronto, ON M5T 1V1. Or e-mail to greenawards@cottagelife.com . You may enter as often as you like before the deadline, but each nomination form and nomination must be unique.

Include with each nomination form a description (maximum 1,000 words) of the green-cottaging achievement. See nomination form for full details.

All submitted photographs, illustrations, technical drawings, and written material must be original to the nominee, or the nominee must have written permission from the original photographer, artist, or author to submit them.

All submissions become the property of Cottage Life/Quarto Communications.

2008 Green Awards.