Banksia Foundation

The Banksia Category Awards reflect the sustainability issues most relevant to Australia coming into the 21st Century.

It is the seal of environmental excellence.

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Category Award

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Land and Biodiversity - Preserving Our Ecosystems

Recognises demonstrated leadership and innovation in protecting and enhancing land systems, soils forests and biodiversity.

Water - Our Most Precious Resource

Recognises leadership and innovation in assuring continued environment and community access, both today and by future generations, to quality freshwater resources and vibrant marine environments.

Education - Raising the Bar

Recognises leadership and innovation in lifting awareness, improving understanding, advancing social and community consciousness of sustainability issues to achieve real, tangible outcomes.

Built Environment - Harmonious Manmade Landscapes

Recognises leadership and innovation by integrating sustainable principles and practices in designing, building and retrofitting today, the homes, suburbs, businesses and infrastructure of the future.

Indigenous Award - Caring for Country

Recognises those delivering excellence in stewardship of the land, waterways, wildlife habitats, native flora and fauna through demonstrated indigenous leadership, community involvement and benefit.

Leading in Sustainability - Setting the Standard for Large Organisations

Recognises businesses and organisations with 200+ employees demonstrating leadership through fully integrating sustainable principles and practices into operational activities, reducing the orgaisations' footprint and influencing and educating suppliers and customers.

Leading in Sustainability - Setting the Standard for Small to Medium Businesses

Recognises businesses with less than 200 employees demonstrating leadership through fully integrating sustainable principles and practices into operational activities, reducing the orgaisations footprint.

Agriculture and Food - From Paddock to Plate Sustainably

Recognises leadership and innovation in moving to more sustainable and productive agricultural and food manufacturing practices, also in the management of the preparation and distribution of commodities and food.

Business and Not-for-Profits - In Collaboration

Recognises leadership in implementing projects, strategies and initiatives that demonstrate capacity building, measurably enhancing the long-term social, economic and environmental state of the community and implementation of relevant solutions. This is seen through the full application of shared sustainability principles and practices throughout joint activities, demonstrating societal value add.

Innovation Award

Recognises individual leadership and innovation in forging Australia's environmental sustainable development.

Local Government Sustainability Award New in 2013

Recognises leadership by fully integrating sustainability principles and practices into operational activities at all levels and reducing the organisation's footprint.

Local Government Sustainable Procurement Award New in 2013

Recognises leadership in achieving environmental, social and economic outcomes through the purchase of goods and services

Banksia Gold Award

From all the Banksia Award Winners - this award is presented to one of the individuals or organisations which, in the judges' opinion, has made an overall outstanding contribution to Australia's sustainability - worthy of extra recognition and acknowledgement.

[No application necessary - this is judged separately]

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Banksia Auxiliary Awards

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GPT Group Community Grant

Presented to a community group that has demonstrated strong local capacity building, measurably enhancing the long-term social, economic and environmental state of their community identification and implementation of locally relevant solutions.

NEW IN 2013: Submissions for the grant are essential.

CEOs Award - Australias leading change agent New in 2013

Recognises an individual executive's contribution towards the economic, social or environmental sustainability achievements of the organisation or company they work for and which has collateral benefits for the globe.

[This award is presented at Banksia's CEO Forum].

Banksia International Award

Identifies and celebrate extraordinary individuals or organisations that have made, or are making, a significant contribution to improve our environment or promote sustainability on a global level.

[No application necessary - this is judged separately]

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Technical Awards

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Climate Adaptation Award

Recognises innovative systems to adapt more effectively to the impacts of climate change and variability through developments in energy technologies, investment decisions and/or applied mitigation processes.

Energy Efficiency and Carbon Management Award

Recognises innovative developments of new applications, systems and/or technologies that reduce, manage or reuse energy to reduce carbon emissions.

Soil Remediation and Improvement Award

Recognises innovative processes, designs and treatments for the development of soil management, remediation or retention improvements.

Transportation Award

Recognises industry leading approaches to reducing the impacts of goods and services movement through innovative transport technologies, distribution designs and advanced spatial planning.

Waste Minimisation Award

Recognises leadership and innovation in reusing, reducing, recycling or recovering waste through the application of new and innovative developments, technologies or processes.