Clubs who have achieved Gold Status, and their projects - see left hand column
Gold Award
A Gold Award signifies a significant commitment to the environment. To qualify for a Gold Award, a club will need to demonstrate its involvement in a minimum of TWO major initiatives in the Rotary year.
Steps
- The Club ES Committee or working group meets either formally or informally several times a year and, where possible, includes the whole club in discussions of potential environmental projects.
- Launch TWO new major initiatives OR continue TWO existing major ones and explore ways to increase their effectiveness. The environmental projects that form the basis of the application should be documented with photographs and other details of these projects. This information may be used by the Environment Committee to showcase your project to the wider Rotary community.
- Look for opportunities to build partnerships, for example with:
- other clubs or group of clubs in District 9780
- a multidistrict or global initiative
- the wider community, local schools, businesses or churches
- environmental groups
Examples of initiatives
- Work with a local school to support students to monitor the energy performance of their school or assess its carbon footprint or to measure its water usage
- Encourage schools to work together, for example, students from a secondary school could assist children from a primary school to plant trees in parks or bushland reserves. Such activities are best done in coordination with the relevant local government ES department.
- Organise a major clean-up of a beach or creek
- Organise a clothing swap day
- Partner with a group to collect plastic bottle caps and transport these to a recycling centre
- Collect unwanted hospital equipment and ship these to needy communities in Australia and overseas