Governor’s Environmental Stewardship Award Winners 25th Anniversary 1986 to 2011 Intentionally left blank 2 History of the Governor’s Environmental Stewardship Award The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation’s Annual Stewardship Awards program began in 1995, although a major component of it, the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Hazardous Waste Management actually began in 1986 through a legislative mandate. Working through the commissioner’s office, the program’s leader, Ernie Blankenship, along with many program partners, believed there was a need to publicly recognize the fine efforts of the many unsung volunteers, both individuals and organizations, who had participated in efforts to protect our state’s environmental quality, promote environmental education, and enhance the state’s natural beauty and quality of life. The purpose of these awards is to recognize outstanding achievements by individuals, businesses, organizations, educational institutions, and agencies resulting in successful environmental projects and conservation measures. Also to promote leadership by example and in turn increase conservation of the natural resources of the State of Tennessee – its wildlife, forests, soils, water, natural heritage, parks and recreation, and air. In an effort to encompass the entire spectrum of environmental and conservation efforts, 14 award categories were eventually established and over the years the categories have changed names many times to better fit the type of nominations that were being received. These awards are the most prestigious environmental and conservation awards in the state. For over 20 years, the awards have been presented to individuals and organizations that make great contributions to the conservation of our wildlife and related natural resources, the natural elements upon which all life depends. The Governor’s Environmental Stewardship Awards is an evolving awards program that will continue to change as our environmental and conservation efforts and needs change. 3 1986 – 1994 Stewardship Award Winners 1986 Stewardship Award Winners 1987 Stewardship Award Winners Hazardous Waste Management Hazardous Waste Management Small Diversified Printing Corporation and Small Rhone‐Poulenc Eaton Corporation Axle Brake Division and Large Nissan Motor Manufacturing Corporation Carrier Air Conditioning Company Large C leo, Inc. 1988 Stewardship Award Winners 1989 Stewardship Award Winners Hazardous Waste Management Hazardo us Waste Management Small Cleveland Pneumatic Company and Small Thomas Industries Bendix‐Allied Signal Large TRW Ross Gear Large Texas Instruments 1990 Stewardship Award Winners 1991 Stewardship Award Winners Hazardous Waste Management Hazardous Waste Management Small Emerson Electric Large Ball Zinc Products Division and Great Dane Trailers Tennessee, Inc. Large Snap‐On Tools 1992 Stewardship Award Winners 1993 Stewardship Award Winners Hazardous Waste Management Hazardous Waste Management Small Whirlpool Corporation and Large UNARCO Materials Handling Company and Phillips Consumer Electronics Company Schering‐Plough HealthCare Products Large Sunbeam‐Oster Specialty Products 1994 Stewardship Award Winners Hazardous Waste Management Small Siemens Energy and Automation Large Lodge Manufacturing Company and Amana Refrigeration, Inc. 4 1995 Stewardship Award Winners Agriculture & Forestry Local Civic Volunteer Timberlands Division Central Region – Westvaco Mr. Jim Robinson Corporation Hazardous Waste Management Local Government Small Advance Transformer Company and Town of Jonesborough Bridgestone/Firestone Morrison Facility Humphreys County 4‐H Large Robertshaw Industrial Products Industrial Pollution Prevention Higher Education Cooper Automotive of Wagner Lighting and Internal Vanderbilt University Johnson Controls, Inc. and Plus Mark, Inc. K­12 Environmental Awareness Small Bon DeCroft Elementary and Nature’s Way Montessori Medium Alpha Elementary Large Cameron Middle and Boone’s Creek Middle Secondary Tennessee High School 5 1996 – 1997 Stewardship Award Winners Agriculture & Forestry K­12 Environmental Awareness East McMinn‐Loudon Farmers Co‐op High Schools Middle Tenneco Packaging East Maryville High West Bob Whitworth, UTAES West Germantown High Wolf River/ W.E.T. Project Aquatic Resource Preservation Local Civic Volunteer Scientific & Citizen Not Awarded East Clean Kingsport West Germantown Env ironmental Community Project Hazardous Waste Management Higher Education Large E.I. Dupont de Nemours & Co. Internal University of Memphis – Ground Water Institute Industrial Pollution Prevention Local Government M&M / Mars East Water Quality Forum/ 2nd Creek Task Force Philips Consumers Electronics Middle Metro Nashville Greenways Commission West Ground Water Quality Control Board for Shelby County Service Industry/ Business Trail Development Excel of Tennessee Not Awarded Columbia Centennial Medical Center K­12 Environmental Awareness Natural Heritage Conservation Elementary Schools East Foothills Land Conservancy and Friends of North Chickamauga Creek East Lonsdale Elementary and Love Chapel Elementary Middle Arnold Engineering Development Center and Scott’s Gulf Committee Middle Oak Hill School West Wolf River Conservancy West Chimneyrock and Berclair Elementary and Dyersburg Primary Middle Schools Ea st John Sevier Middle Middle William James Junior High 6 1998 Stewardship Award Winners Agriculture & Forestry K­12 Environmental Awareness Elementary Schools East Clinch/Powell Watershed Protection Project West Tenneco Packagin g – Woodlands Division Small Alpha and Hickerson Medium Avoca a nd Sam Houston Large Granberry and Sango Aquatic Resource Preservation K­12 Environmental Awareness Middle Schools Scientific Five Rivers R&D Council Partnership Citizen Boone Watershed Partnership Small Pi Beta Phi Medium Coffman Large Inman Greenways & Trails K­12 Environmental Awareness Greenways/Conservation High Schools East City of Maryville and Kingsport Small Elizabethton and Johnson City Medium Hillwood Middle Rails to Trails in Ashland City Large Centennial West Recreation/Parks Department of Jackson Greenways & Trails Local Civic Volunteer Trail Development East Ijams Nature Center Individual Robert Brown Middle Kathy Dewein Regional Cumberland Trail Conference West Haywood High School Industrial Pollution Prevention Local Government East DuPont & General Shale Products Corporation East Sevier Solid Waste Inc. Middle Bridgestone/Firestone Middle Central TN Solid Waste Planning Board West Tenneco Packaging West City of Germantown Environmental Committee Higher Education Natural Heritage Conservation Internal Belmont University East Flenniken Square Apartments Partnership External University of Tennessee Agriculture and Middle Glenn Springs Holdings, Inc. Extension Service Hazardous Waste Management Service Industry/Business Large Olin Corporation Nashville Electric Service Renaissance Nashville Hotel 7 1999 Stewardship Award Winners Agriculture & Forestry Aquatic Resource Preservation East Gail & Jim Harris Farm Scientific Center for Field Biology – APSU Middle Lincoln Farmers Co‐Op Citizen Boone Watershed Partnership West Hayden Miles – UT Agricultural Extension Service Greenways & Trails Greenways & Trails Greenways/Conservation Tr ail Development Bowater Pocket Wilderness Areas Individual Ron Weber and Sam Powell Regional City of Brentwood Hazardous Waste Management Higher Education Small Bridgestone/Firestone Morrison Facility External Center for Field Biology – APSU Large Fort Campbell – Pollution Prevention Center Industrial Pollution Prevention Local Civic Volunteer Bridgestone/Firestone Morrison Facility Janet Clark – Bristol and Tenneco Packaging Frank Sanders – Winchester Local Government Natural Heritage Conservation Scenic Cities Beautiful Commission of Chattanooga East Steele Creek Parks Nature Center City of Cleveland Statewide Bridgestone/Firestone Nashville Facility Williamson County Land Donations J&M Huber Corporation City of Memphis – Division of Public Works K­12 Environmental Awareness K­12 Environmental Awareness Elementary Schools Middle Schools Small Love Chapel and Tennessee Ridge Small Camp Creek and MacDonald/Mohawk Medium Highland Park and Westwood and E.E. Jeter Large Granberry and Stuart‐Burns/Burns Medium Sequatchie County and A.L. Lotts Large Cameron and Prescott Central K­12 Environmental Awareness Service Industry/Business High Schools Waste Reduction & Recycling, Inc. Small Sequatchie and Sweetwater Black & Decker, Inc. Large Centennial Sheraton Mus ic City Hotel 8 2000 Stewardship Award Winners Agriculture & Forestry Hazardous Waste Management East View Farm Belvedere Small Tennsco Corporation of Dickson Greenways & Trails Greenways & Trails Greenways/Conservation Trail Development Linda Hixson Green Gold Conservancy Lyndhurst Foundation Friends of Big Cypres s Tree Natural Area Aquatic Resource Preservation Higher Education Scientific Upper Holston Watershed Team – TVA Internal UT Chattanooga Citizen North Chickamauga Creek Conservancy; External UT – CIS and UT – Chattanooga Creek Girls Scouts of Reelfoot Council; Tennessee River Watershed Rescue and Dorris & Sherri Sutton Industrial Pollution Prevention Local Civic Volunteer East Bowater Newsprint Martha Sundquist; Fred Sandefer; Paris Council Middle Tennsco Corporation Garden Club; Dr. Harry Houk – University of Memphis; West Buckeye Technologies of Memphis Jamie Marston; Waller Trust Acquisition