Sustainable Innovator - 2025 GSN Sustainability Awards

The Tara Grodjesk Award

This award recognizes a product company, equipment supplier, distributor, or Individual who fully incorporates sustainability in their purpose and management processes, operational practices, raw materials sourcing, packaging, and employee and community impact, with special attention to innovation.

The entry form requires all information to be public, and all fields marked with an asterisk must be completed.

Not all questions may apply to every applicant. Please answer only those that are relevant to your work or organization. To ensure fairness, all scores will be normalized based on applicable responses.

Please note: Partial submissions cannot be saved or revisited. We recommend gathering your responses, photos, and any required materials in advance, as the form must be completed in one sitting.

1. Company or Individual Name *This question is required.

2. Website or link to personal profile where your commitment to sustainability is outlined *This question is required.

3. Address *This question is required.

4. Email *This question is required. This question requires a valid email address.

5. Phone *This question is required. This question requires a valid number format.

6. Please provide a list of your sustainable products, services and/or equipment.

Please provide up to 5 photographs of your sustainable products, services and/or equipment, if relevant.

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Corporate Governance/Individual Objectives

Please elaborate on your business’ sustainability strategies and targets, policies and management processes. Indicate if you engage with stakeholders regarding your strategies, if you have a sustainability team, whether there are initiatives to promote sustainability within the organization, whether you measure your sustainability performance and if you report on your sustainability practices internally and/or externally.

If you have entered as an individual, please provide details describing how you have incorporated sustainability in your life purpose and work. (300 to 500 words)

Climate action Please describe the steps you or your organization has taken to reduce your carbon footprint, either through carbon reduction processes, or through investment in recognized carbon offset programs. (200-300 words)

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Office facility and indoor environmental health

Please elaborate on ways in which you ensure a good indoor environment for employees and co-workers, by enhancing the availability of natural light, fresh air, good ventilation; by reducing hazardous substances including VOC paints and other indoor pollutants such as dust and mold and by incorporating biophilic design elements. (300-500 words)

11.

Resource management: Energy

Please describe the steps you or your business has taken to measure and improve energy efficiency, through operational procedures, energy reduction fittings and equipment choices, or renewable energy generation. (200-300 words)

12. Resource Management:

Water

Please describe the steps you or your business has taken to measure and improve water efficiency and stewardship, through operational procedures, water reduction fittings and equipment choices, grey water recycling, or rainwater catchment. (200-300 words)

13. Resource Management:

Waste

Please describe the steps taken to reduce, reuse and recycle waste. Elaborate on practices to demarcate different waste streams, to engage with waste partners and to conduct waste audits. Please reference packaging and plastic reduction practices in particular. (200-300 words)

14. Resource Management:

Biodiversity

Please describe any activities you or your business has adopted to conserve biodiversity, use biological resources sustainably or improve natural habitats. (200-300 words)

15.

Procurement Practices

Please describe any efforts to engage with sustainable and ethical suppliers, or to source local and sustainable products/materials in order to ensure the achievement of your sustainability objectives. (200-300 words)

16.

Social and community impacts

Please elaborate on initiatives to enhance workplace wellbeing and engagement, to provide education on sustainable practices and to make a positive impact on your community, including training and development to enhance employee skills and knowledge; measures to promote diversity and an inclusive culture; community investment projects; support to disadvantaged and underprivileged groups; measures to foster a community caring culture within your business or personal environment. (300-500 words)