NOW ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FOR
THE 2008 Blue Sky Awards^TM!
NOTE: The Blue Sky Award^TM nomination deadline is March 31, 2008.
To download a nomination form, please click here (.pdf) or for a MSWord version, click here.

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Nominations are now being accepted for the 2008 Blue Sky Award^TM.  The award, internationally recognized, is presented to companies, organizations or individuals selected for making outstanding contributions to clean air, energy efficiency and to the advanced transportation industry.  One overall Blue Sky Award is presented, and up to three Merit awards.

If you’re aware of someone truly deserving, your nomination could be considered for the Blue Sky Leadership Award^TMwhich recognizes outstanding personal commitment to further the advanced transportation technology industry.    

The Blue Sky Award^TM tradition also includes the Charles R. Imbrecht Blue Sky Innovation Award^TM. Created in 1999 and named in honor of the third -- and longest serving -- chairman of the California Energy Commission (CEC), the award is presented in recognition of innovative actions taken to develop future markets for advanced, sustainable transportation that cleans the air, improves energy efficiency, and helps reduce greenhouse emissions. 

The Blue Sky Award^TM is presented to formally recognize - and reward - outstanding contributions not only to develop clean vehicles and technologies, but also to actively bring them to the marketplace. The Blue Sky Award^TM is specifically designed to recognize not just leadership and innovation in technology for clean, sustainable transportation, but a significant commitment to its use.

The Blue Sky Award^TM criteria focus on marketplace actions. However, those activities may take many forms. Prospective award recipients can be manufacturers, developers or users of advanced transportation technologies or services. They can be selected for bringing new vehicles or vehicle technologies to market; for significant implementation of clean, sustainable transportation options; and for significant technology breakthroughs that affect the marketplace (or for a combination of these things). This is the award for the advanced transportation industry – please get your nominations in now!

As you consider whom to nominate (and self-nominations are fine!) remember that the judges look for a variety of elements in their deliberations.  Among other criteria, the judges want to see increases in energy efficiency; contributions to the reduction of green house gases; technological sustainability; and that the nominee has a real commitment to market launch.  When assembling a nomination, third-party endorsements, technical data and other supporting documents are very valuable during the consideration process and make for a stronger nomination.

To download a nomination form, please click here (.pdf) or for a MSWord version, click here.
The nomination deadline is March 31, 2008.


2007 Blue Sky Award^TM Winners

Blue Sky Award^TM winners gather on the steps of The Athenaeum at Caltech in
Pasadena on September 6, 2007. 
Back row left to right:  Tom Celletti, VP, International; Rick Kaspar, President, Global Electric Motorcars, Damien Michelin, Michelin North America, Douglas Kraus, Port of Los Angeles.
Front row left to right: Guan Saw, President, Cummins Westport; Larry Oswald, CEO, Global Electric Motorcars;
Commissioner James Hankla, Port of Long Beach.

Questions and requests for additional information: Melanie Savage, msavage@calstart.org or call 626/744-5683