Do you think your city or community is one of the most sustainable in the world? If so, consider applying for the 2011 Sustainable City Globe Award.

(If your community isn't among the global sustainability leaders yet--but would like to be--perhaps you should check out The Natural Step Canada's Sustainable Communities Program. Through our unique suite of advisory, coaching, and process facilitation services, we can help your community make transformational changes toward sustainability. The communities we work with consistently win sustainability awards and honours in Canada and around the world. Yours can, too!)

But, for now, back to the Sustainable City Globe Award...

This award focuses on a holistic approach to sustainability in cities and integrates different types of resources or capital for a better future in cities around the world. The conceptual approach is to use the different types of capital below:

• Environmental Capital - Natural Resources Preservation
• Social Capital - Well being and Social Relations
• Human and Intellectual Capital - Innovation and Social Intelligence
• Technical and Infrastructure Capital - Transportation and ICT
• Culture and Leisure Capital - Experience
• Political Capital - Confidence and Public Trust
• Financial Capital - Assets and Financial Management

To apply, your city needs to demonstrate one or more special initiatives that it has undertaken in the last two years in one or more of the various types of capital above in order to reach a more sustainable future.

Applications are due February 4, 2011. Apply today!

About Globe Award

Globe Award is a world covering sustainability award which is given out in four categories to recognise and encourage societies, the corporate sector, individuals and academia that have excelled in the area of sustainability. Globe Award is a non-for-profit organisation with the aim of fostering sustainable development in society. Our role is to inspire actors to do more and to take responsibility through awarding great cases within research, innovations, large corporations and cities.

Globe Award sees the need to support research and innovation as well as motivate large corporations and cities in order to get the needed changes that will take us towards a sustainable future. Therefore the award is given in the following categories: Sustainability Research, Sustainability Innovation, Sustainable City and Sustainability Reporting.

Learn more about Globe Award.