2027 California Green Medal Application

Organization's Name

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Email

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Have you won a California Green Medal Award?

Previous winners of the Environment, Community or Business award (2015-2026) must wait five years to reapply, and previous winners of the Leader award must wait 15 years to reapply.

If you selected yes: Which year and category were you awarded?

About the Award

The 2027 Green Medal Sustainable Winegrowing Leadership Award will be given to three vineyards and/or wineries that best exhibit qualities of integrity, responsibility, transparency, dedication, innovation, and generosity, while balancing the 3 Es of sustainability (environmentally sound, socially equitable, and economically feasible).

The judges will evaluate your application based on each of the 3 Es below. Please ensure your responses to each question sufficiently address each component of sustainability.

Environmentally Sound: Demonstrates maximized environmental benefits from implementing specific practices, projects, or initiatives.
Socially Equitable: Innovative practices or program that enhance relations with employees, neighbors and/or communities.
Economically Feasible: Demonstrates efficiencies and cost savings from implementing specific practices, projects, or initiatives.

What best describes your operation(s)?

Please indicate the size of your operation.

Which sustainability program(s) do you participate in? Check all that apply and include one proof of participation in your support materials per program selected.

If other or ISO Certification, please specify.

Operational Information

Briefly describe in 750 characters or less how you excel in each area and list examples of practices where appropriate. (Please note it is a character count limit, not a word count limit. Spaces are counted as characters.) You may use well known abbreviations to stretch your character count.

Please ensure your answers:

Include measurable results that demonstrate efficiencies and cost savings from implementing specific practices, projects, or initiatives within the last five years.

Make a clear connection between the information included in each section and the three Es of sustainability (e.g., how does water or energy efficiency link to good business practices? How does prioritizing biodiversity and soil health benefit the community?)

Water Use Efficiency

0/750

Soil Health

0/750

Pest Management

0/750

Biodiversity and Wildlife Conservation

0/750

Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

0/750

Human Resources

0/750

Solid Waste Management

0/750

Neighbors and Community

0/750

Other

This can include sustainable purchasing, etc.0/750

How do you communicate your sustainability message to stakeholders?

In 750 characters or less, please provide information about how you communicate your sustainability message (e.g., website, online materials, tasting room)0/750

About Supporting Documentation

Please include a maximum of three relevant support documents, in addition to the required proof of participation for each sustainable winegrowing program you participate in. (Note: proof of participation in a sustainable winegrowing program is required and does not count as one of your three allowed documents.)

Examples of Supporting Documentation:

Proof of Participation in a Sustainable Winegrowing Program (Required for each program selected)
Company literature, publications, and/or marketing material
Media cuttings/coverage/testimonials
Sustainability reports
Mission or values statement
Previous awards/acknowledgements
Staff CVs or biographies
Letters of recommendation or endorsement
Company website (include links or screenshots to online sustainability initiatives)
Social media campaigns promoting sustainability (include links or screenshots)
Other

Uploading Supporting Documentation

Please combine your three support materials and proof of participation in a sustainable winegrowing program into either one PDF document, or share a link to a Dropbox, Google Drive (or similar) folder.

PDF Upload for supporting documentation.

Dropbox, Google Drive (or other) folder for supporting documentation.

Signature

By writing your name below, you certify that the information on this application and supporting documents is true and correct to the best of your knowledge. Note: Your application information will not be made public, but please do not include any confidential information.

2027 California Green Medal Sustainable Winegrowing Leadership Awards Application

About Supporting Documentation

Uploading Supporting Documentation