I don’t know how many of you knew this, but I’m a Canuck. And proud of it! The short list of nominees for the Canadian Environment Awards was announced today. These awards are sponsored by Shell Canada and are awarded at four levels, each celebrating a different type of contribution to environmental activism: Community Awards, Ideas for Life Award, Citation of Lifetime Achievement and the Green Team Challenge.

The Community Awards are the focal of this project. Currently there are 18 nominees in six different categories: Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental Health, Environmental Learning, Restoration & Rehabilitation and Sustainable
Living.

All the nominees profiles can be found at the Canadian Geographic website.

The winners will be announced by Shell Canada during Canadian Environment Week, which runs from June 3-9.

To read the list of finalists — without profiles — go beyond the cut.

FINALISTS FOR THE CANADIAN ENVIRONMENT AWARDS 2007

CITATION OF LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
Jean Lemire; biologist, adventurer and film director and producer;
Montréal, Quebec

IDEAS FOR LIFE AWARD
TOHU, la Cité des arts du cirque; sustainable centre for circus arts and
environmental learning centre; Montréal, Quebec

COMMUNITY AWARDS FINALISTS

CLIMATE CHANGE
Clean Air Foundation, Car Heaven; Toronto, Ontario
Conseil régional de l’environnement de l’Estrie, sustainable
transportation program; Sherbrooke, Quebec
Stuart Hickox, Project Porchlight; Ottawa, Ontario

CONSERVATION
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society/Yukon Chapter, Three Rivers
Journey; Whitehorse, Yukon
Mike James and Kathleen Martin, Nova Scotia Leatherback Turtle Working
Group; Halifax, Nova Scotia
Native Orchid Conservation Inc., protectors of mini-ecosystems and their
plant communities; Winnipeg, Manitoba

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Lac La Biche Watershed Steering Committee, community-based water-quality
champions; Lakeland County, Alberta
Lake Winnipeg Research Consortium Inc., multi-stakeholder research and
education group; Gimli, Manitoba
Nunavik Research Centre, Inuit-managed environmental-health facility;
Kuujjuaq, Quebec

ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING
Humber Arm Environmental Association, Trading Books for Boats; Corner
Brook, Newfoundland
Lucie Sauvé, Canada Research Chair in Environmental Education; Montréal,
Quebec
Jim Taylor, founder of the E-Team; Mission, British Columbia

RESTORATION & REHABILITATION
Junction Creek Stewardship Committee, community creek restoration group;
Sudbury, Ontario
Nile Creek Enhancement Society, salmon-habitat restoration project;
Bowser, British Columbia
Tree Canada, foundation dedicated to planting trees throughout Canada;
Ottawa, Ontario

SUSTAINABLE LIVING
Community Environment Alliance of Peel, Share-IT: Computers for
Community; Brampton, Ontario
Eco-quartier Jeanne-Mance/Mile End, Tourne-Sol Community Composting
Centre; Montréal, Quebec
George McCubbin, advocate for eco-efficiencies in multi-unit residences;
Lindsay, Ontario

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