Past Winners

2016 Land Awards

Land Champion:

Private Sector Finalists:

  • The Beer Farm – Persephone Brewing Company (winner | video)
  • City of Coquitlam District Energy – Thermenex (video)
  • RED Talks – Wesgroup Properties (video)

Public Sector Finalists:

  • Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Electoral Area B, District of Lillooet and St’át’imc Agricultural Plan (winner | video)
  • Indigenous Community Planning Program – UBC School of Community and Regional Planning (video)
  • User Network for Insect Biology in the Urban Garden (UNIBUG) – Douglas College (video)

Non-Profit Sector Finalists:

  • Moving Towards Reconciliation – Fair Mining Collaborative (winner | video)
  • Kwayatsut – Vancouver Native Housing Society (video)
  • The Post at 750 and CBC Vancouver Community Spaces – 110 Arts Co-operative and CBC Vancouver (video)
  • Rental Housing Index – BC Non-Profit Housing Association (video)

2013 Land Awards

Land Champion:

  • Carol Newell

Private Sector Finalists:

  • Net Positive Housing Project – Lanefab Design/Build (winner)
  • Tinhorn Creek Compost Program – Tinhorn Creek Vineyards

Public Sector Finalists:

  • Solar Colwood – City of Colwood (winner)
  • Columbia Valley Local Conservation Fund – Regional District of East Kootenay
  • Frequent Transit Development Areas Initiative – Metro Vancouver

Non-Profit Sector Finalists:

  • Recycled Shipping Container Housing Project – Atira Women’s Resource Society (winner)
  • Kin Park Youth Urban Farm – Cowichan Green Community Society
  • Shifting Growth – Shifting Growth Garden Society

2011 Land Awards

Land Champion:

  • Mark Angelo

Private Sector Finalists:

  • River District – ParkLane Homes (winner)
  • Abbotsford Harmony Flex Housing Project – Van Maren Construction Group

Public Sector Finalists:

  • Metro Vancouver 2040: Shaping Our Future – Metro Vancouver (winner)
  • 2011-2015 Islands Trust Fund Regional Conservation Plan – Islands Trust Fund
  • Surrey Ecosystem Management Study – City of Surrey

Non-Profit Sector Finalists:

  • Darkwoods Forest Carbon Project – Nature Conservancy of Canada (winner)
  • Apple Valley Seniors’ Housing – Society of HOPE
  • Creating an Edible Neighbourhood – Cowichan Green Community Society
  • The Station Street Community – PHS Community Services Society

2014 Land Awards

Land Champion:

  • Gary Runka

Private Sector Finalists:

  • Organic Land Care Education Programs – Gaia College (winner)
  • Sustainability Strategy in the Kootenays – Teck Resources Limited

Public Sector Finalists:

  • Agricultural Land Use Inventory Program – BC Ministry of Agriculture (winner)
  • Baikie Island Restoration – City of Campbell River
  • Duteau Creek Watershed Assessment Response Plan – Greater Vernon Water Utility
  • Farmland Access for Food Security – Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, UBC

Non-Profit Sector Finalists:

  • The Station – Cowichan Green Community Society (winner)
  • Kettle on Burrard – The Kettle Friendship Society
  • Landscape Training and Accreditation for Local Governments – Society for Organic Urban Land Care

2012 Land Awards

Land Champion:

  • Richard Hankin

Private Sector Finalists:

  • River Market – Take Root Properties (winner)
  • New Monaco Sustainable Neighbourhood Project – New Monaco Enterprise Corporation
  • Westminster Pier Park – PWL Partnership Landscape Architects Inc.

Public Sector Finalists:

  • Ty–histanis Neigbourhood Development – Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations (winner)
  • Natural Areas and Climate Change Mapping and Information Tool – City of Prince George

Non-Profit Sector Finalists:

  • SOLEfood Farm – SOLEfood Farm, an initiative of Cultivate Canada (winner)
  • Pembroke Mews Affordable Workforce Housing – Greater Victoria Housing Society
  • The Community Greenhouse – Groundswell Network Society
  • Skwachàys Healing Lodge – Vancouver Native Housing Society

2010 Land Awards

Land Champion:

  • Tim Pringle

Private Sector Finalists:

  • Living Forest Communities for the Elkington Forest Project (winner)
  • Dockside Green for the Dockside Green initiative

Public Sector Finalists:

  • Coastal First Nations-Great Bear Initiative and Nanwakolas Council for the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements 2000-2010 (winner)
  • BC Ministry of Agriculture and Lands for the BC Brownfield Renewal Strategy
  • Columbia Shuswap Regional District for the Salmon Arm Landfill Phase I Closure, Phase II Expansion and Landfill Gas Upgrade

Non-Profit Sector Finalists:

  • Wildsight for the Lake Windermere Project (winner)
  • Atira Women’s Resource Centre for the Maxxine Wright Centre Project
  • SFU Community Trust for the UniverCity initiative
  • Stewardship Centre for BC Society for Green Shores program