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PEA awards to celebrate individuals with green agenda

The People and Environment Achievement (PEA) Awards 2012 will celebrate businesses that have contributed most the green agenda.

Sponsored by The Co-op, the awards will recognise everything from raising awareness, responsible travelling and proving ethical best practice, through to creating technologies, designing products and services and developing specific campaigns.

12 categories will be spread across industry sectors, to allow industry-specific standards and current practices to be taken into account during judging.

A panel of judges, will be chaired by sustainability adviser and one of the UK’s best known environmentalists, Tony Juniper, and will include head of sustainability at PwC Leo Johnson, Jo Wood, co-founder of Green & Blacks’s Josephine Fairley, founder of green traveller, Richmond Hammond, director of National Geographic and founder of the PEA Awards, Jarvis Smith.

Nominations can be made across multiple categories, and the awards are free to enter, with the deadline for submissions falling on midnight February 24.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Tom Keighley .