The best project will be crowned with
the ENERGY GLOBE World Award.

Worldwide winners for 2010 will be crowned in the European Parliament in Brussels

Until the deadline of June 15, extraordinary environmental achievements made in Austria are being recruited for the ENERGY GLOBE Award 2009. The best projects focusing on energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy will be highlighted and distinguished on 27 November 2009 in Wels, Austria, on the huge ENERGY GLOBE Austria stage. Details and online submission are available here.

Since the global ENERGY GLOBE invitation went out a few weeks ago, the phones at the Traunkirchen headquarters have been running hot: A caller from India wants to know whether he can submit multiple projects. Bangladesh wants to participate with a technology park to combat climate change, although the park has not yet opened. The Wildlife Foundation in USA collects broken fishing nets from the oceans and generates power from them; “Is this worth a submission?” Papua New Guinea announces its reforestation program and asks whether it is adequate for the ENERGY GLOBE. In his best English, a caller from Mongolia describes an environmentally friendly training program for wild Ninja gold prospectors. The final call on a long ENERGY GLOBE day comes from Vietnam: biogas from rice chaff? (Perfect: a new project submission.) Again the ENERGY GLOBE has circumnavigated the globe and collected impressive ideas from impressive people in order to show the way in energy efficiency and sustainability.

Austria’s innovative projects are among the front runners. “Our second call for submissions aims to attract the most innovative minds in environmental and climate protection. Here Austria is a harbinger, and we want to promote these achievements on a large scale,” says ENERGY GLOBE founder Wolfgang Neumann.

This year the ENERGY GLOBE, the world’s most renowned environmental award, celebrates its tenth anniversary. The road to worldwide recognition and a renowned world award for sustainability was not always easy; however, this commitment to the environment has paid off. “Nowadays even a project submission for an ENERGY GLOBE is already donned in the letterheads of many participants,” chuckles Neumann.

Every ENERGY GLOBE winner also enjoys broad media presence, and he sees his project become an example admired by millions of people and often replicated by other projects.

In the coming year, each submitted project has a chance of being honored with the highest distinction, the ENERGY GLOBE World Award for Sustainability 2009, a 17 kg bronze statue, in the realm of a TV gala broadcast worldwide from the European Parliament in Brussels before a high-ranking audience.