Tri-County Green Hero

The Tri-County Green Hero is a campaign to recognize community members, neighborhoods, businesses, schools, churches or other organizations making a difference in Woodford, Tazewell and Peoria Counties in promoting sustainable and green practices at home and work.

Award recipients will be recognized on WMBD during their monthly feature of “Tri-County Green Hero of the Month,” receives recognition plaque to display, and highlighted on the Tri-County Green Hero page found on www.healthyhoi.com

Campaign Partners: WMBD, TCHD, WCHD, Peoria County Sustainability Department

how to be a GREEN hero:

Increase recycling efforts
Compost Food Scraps and other materials
Conduct a Food Recovery Project by donating healthy foods to local food pantries or soup kitchens
Conduct litter pick up drives in your neighborhood, parks, river
Implement water and energy savings initiatives
Create a wellness policy for dedicated improvements to health for employees and community
Provide a tobacco free environment for customers and residents
Purchase locally grown and made products to increase spending power and reduce transportation emissions

ARE YOU A GREEN HERO?

Tell us about your efforts and be recognized as a Tri County Green Hero or nominate someone else. Nominations are accepted by the 15th of each month. The nomination form is available online or contact the Tazewell County Health Department for more information: greeninitiatives@tchd.net

Here is a printable version of the nomination form.

GOALS

To promote those entities making a difference in saving energy, improving the environment, providing healthy foods to people in need or diverting food waste for food recovery and composting.
To encourage others to initiate green strategies for their places of work, churches, schools, neighborhoods and homes.
To drive the community to healthyhoi.com in order to increase collaboration, education and awareness of issues impacting our health and communities.