TEMPLATE INSTRUCTIONS

1. Template Use: • For Advocacy and sustainable company use template pages 2 – 6. • For Sustainability Award, Native Plant Design Award, Water Conservation/LID Award and Edible Landscape Awards use pages 7 - 15. • Use PowerPoint command “Reduce File Size” via the File menu. Choose “Best for viewing on screen (150 dpi). • File must be saved as “Powerpoint 97-2004 Presentation (.ppt)” • Upload Requirements • Project images must be submitted in a single Microsoft PowerPoint or PDF file not to exceed 30 MB and 30 pages. • It is your responsibility to make sure the designer’s name and/or firm name is not revealed on any of the images, plans, or narratives. • All submittals should include site plan. Conceptual diagrams, elevations, sections, details are optional. Indicate the scale used on any drawings or plans. • Composite image pages are acceptable. • Text/notes on images/drawings are allowed. • File less than 10MB can be emailed to chris.dacus@gmail.com • Files larger than 10 MB require a www.yousendit.com free account. Use Yousendit.com and send your Powerpoint File to chris.dacus@gmail.com. Every file received will trigger an email confirmation. Resend if you do not receive a confirmation within 4 hours. • Payment should be made online at: www.hawaiiscape.com/awards • LICH Award Contact: • Chris Dacus – Phone (808) 799-3101 – Email: Chris.Dacus@gmail.com TEMPLATE INSTRUCTIONS

2. Entry for Native Plant Advocacy, Invasive Species Advocacy Award and Sustainable Company Award • List one of the following Award Categories: • Native Plant Advocacy Award • Plant Pono Invasive Species Advocacy Award • Sustainable Company Award Name of PERSON/COMPANYAward category:____________________________ Nominator Name & Contact Info. with phone & email: Peggy Smith 123 Lokelani Avenue Honolulu, HI 96815 Daytime Phone: (808) 794-4999 Email: Joe.Smith Nominee Name & Contact Info. with phone & email: Joe Smith 123 Lokelani Avenue Honolulu, HI 96815 Daytime Phone: (808) 794-4999 Email: Joe.Smith

3. Name of PERSON/COMPANYAward category:____________________________ Award Submittal Headshot(person) Logo (organization) Action photo(s)

4. Name of Company/Nonprofit Organization/Institution:____________________________________________ • Sustainable Company Award • Sustainable companies or organizations strive to protect and conserve resources, reduce waste, and prevent pollution, and that promote an ethic of environmental sustainability, community service, stewardship, alternative energy and improvement within their workplace. • Describe activities that conserve our resources at your company including but not limited to: • Promote an ethic of environmental sustainability and improvement within their workplace. • Mission statement prioritizing sustainable operations. Sustainability goals with ongoing measurement systems. • Volunteer for community environmental activities. • Integration and adoption of renewable energy • Implement a construction waste management and recycling plan. • Reduce diesel emissions from construction equipment through using cleaner alternatives to traditional diesel fuel. • Use Environmentally Preferable Materials. Use sustainably harvested/certified woods. Utilize recycled materials (recovered content plastic, aluminum, concrete, glass, steel, rubber, etc.) Use low-emission, non-toxic and/or bio-based products. Examples include water-based coatings, arsenic-free pressure-treated wood, and naturally rot-resistant hardwoods. Use products that are locally manufactured or extracted. Use products that offer lifecycle benefits over conventional products. Minimize levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and overall toxicity. • Utilize integrated pest management techniques to minimize the use of synthetic chemicals for control of disease, invasives and pests. Award Submittal

5. Name of Person:_____________________________________ • Plant Pono • Invasive Species Advocacy Award • Individuals that talks the talk and walks the walk of leading by example in the advocacy of reducing existing invasive pests, promotes the use of noninvasive alternatives, submits plants to the Weed Risk Assessment and strive to actively volunteers in invasive species removal. • Describe the person’s contribution of time, talent, vision, or finances including but not limited to: • Removal of plants on the LICH Invasive Plant list and WRA assessment • Promotion of non-invasive alternatives • Screening plants by WRA • Submittals of new plants to the WRA • LICH Invasive Plant Initiative participation • Outreach beyond the call Award Submittal

6. Name of Person:________________________________________ • Native Plant Advocacy • & Research Award • Individuals that talks the talk and walks the walk of leading by example in the advocacy of promoting native plants, role model for the industry, conducts important research and conducts outreach beyond the call. • Describe the person’s contribution of time, talent, vision, or finances including but not limited to: • Promotion of native species • A leader/role model for the industry • Produce industry standards, guidelines, best management practices and native plant horticulture books & resources • Volunteers and/or leads habitat restoration • Native plant research • Outreach beyond the call Award Submittal

7. Entry for Sustainability Award, Native Plant Design Award, Water Conservation/LID Award and Edible Landscape Award. • List one of the following Award Categories: • Sustainability Award (subcategories for Sustainability Award only) • Residential Category • Government/Institutions Category • Commercial Category • Native Plant Design Award • Water Conservation/LID Award • Edible Landscape Award • (If entering multiple categories then submit one Powerpoint per entry) Name OF PROJECTcategory/Subcategory:____________________________ Firm or Individual(s) Name & Contact Info with phone & email (Only slide with firm or individual’s name)

8. Award Category/Subcategory:___________________________ Project Name, Location_________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS (if necessary): At the discretion of the entrant, one page total of text may be submitted to describe the slides included in the presentation. This is up to the entrant to decide whether to include text on the presentation along with images or to include the description on the presentation itself. If slide descriptions are included, they should be printed and included with the project narrative described below. In this text, do not mention the firm or individual’s name submitting the project. Award Submittal

9. Award Category/Subcategory:___________________________ • Project Name, Location_________________________________ • Project Description: • Provide a project narrative for the submittal. The narrative will be used to present your project to the jury and at the awards ceremony, in the event that it wins an award. The Project Narrative is limited to one (1) Single-Sided Page, Minimum Font Size 12pt. The description should cover the following: • PROJECT NAME AND LOCATION • PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT: Describe the project’s requirements, scope, planning or design philosophy and design intent. • ROLE OF THE ENTRANT: Describe the entrant’s role of leadership and involvement, roles of the client, public, consultants, and/or subcontractors. • SIGNIFICANCE: Explain the relationship of the project to its context or surroundings, particularly in regard to the entrant’s stewardship responsibilities. • SPECIAL FACTORS: Explain why the project is unique or special, plus any unusual problems, new techniques, or budgetary constraints you encountered. Briefly describe the project’s effect on the public’s perception of the profession. • PLANT LIST: Include a simple list of plants (Latin names are not required) featured in the project. Award Submittal Landscaped Area: (sf) ___________________ Date of Completion: ________________ Project Address: ____________________________________________ Category: ______________________ Subcategory: ______________________

10. List the sustainability performance measures and how they are employed from the following three pages and delete the measures not utilized by your project. In addition, list measures illustrated on the various project pages. • Ecological • Encourage ecological connectivity and habitat function. • Maintain and enhance biodiversity and ecological goods and services. • Planting-based carbon sequestration and air quality improvements • Stormwater (Water Conservation/LID award list measures employed) • Design and construct landscapes that are capable of high rates of stormwater absorption, infiltration, and treatment.\ • _______________Percent (%) precipitation managed on site • _______________Percent (%) waste water reused on site • _______________Percent (%) regulated potable water reduction from baseline • Reduce water consumption and protect water quality by designing a water-efficient landscape. • Use pervious pavements and reduce impervious surfaces, where appropriate, to increase on-site infiltration, reduce stormwater runoff and water pollution, and reduce urban heat island effect. • Minimizing stormwater impacts to the extent practicable by employing low impact development strategies that reduce, control and treat stormwater runoff as close to the source as possible. • Techniques include reducing imperviousness, conserving natural resources and ecosystems, maintaining natural drainage courses, reducing use of pipes, and minimizing clearing and grading. • Providing runoff storage measures dispersed uniformly throughout a site's landscape with the use of detention, retention, and runoff practices. • Implement construction plans for pollution prevention, chemical source control, sedimentation and erosion control, and interim stormwater management. • Use of green infrastructure techniques enabling infiltration, evapotranspiration, bioremediation, and permaculture. • Use surface and underground infiltration structures – including trenches, vaults/galleries, injection wells, dry wells, leaching fields, rain barrels, etc. on site to reduce stormwater runoff volumes and peak flows, improve water quality, and promote groundwater recharge. • Design bioretention shallow swales and basins with diverse landscaping in an engineered soil medium to reduce, detain, and treat stormwater runoff. • Use constructed wetlands – permanent pools of water that are populated by wetland plants and aquatic organisms – to reduce, re-/detain and treat stormwater runoff. • Use recycled r1 or r2 water and graywater. • Use of LICH Irrigation Water Conservation BMPs. • Maintain or restore a watershed's hydrologic and ecological functions. • Visually appealing, well designed site drainage that treats stormwater as a public resource rather than a waste product. • Undertake a proactive, integrated planning approach to urban stormwater management to protect aquatic ecosystems.

11. Soils • Use structural soils – an engineered mix of load-bearing rock and organic soil – in trafficked planted areas or under pavements where planting will occur. • Use of existing on-site soil for planting rather than importing topsoil and exporting waste soil. • Prevent erosion, soil/bank stabilization • Vegetation • Projects that incorporate a minimum 30% of the total project area with native species. • Native species designs that result in increased ecological productivity including nutrient cycle, native habitat for insects, aquatic & fauna, hydrological cycle, water quality, air quality, reduced use of irrigation water. • Projects incorporating regional native plants and/or collected nearby and propagated specifically for the project. • Native plantings incorporating diverse genetics of locally collected plants. (i.e., no monocultures) • Restablishing native plants in their original range of distribution. • Native plantings designed as native seedbanks. • Increase density of tree canopy using multiple species of native or non-invasive naturalized trees. • Plant trees to maximize shading of pavement and buildings to reduce cooling and energy costs. • Reduced use of turfgrass • Select low-maintenance native plants that are tolerant of urban conditions, require less fertilizer, pest and disease control measures, and require less supplemental water. • Develop a plan for protecting existing plant material to preserve habitat, minimize site disturbance, and reduce capital costs for reinstallation of new plants. • Develop, implement, and enforce a site construction protection plan to protect existing and future planted areas from soil compaction and disturbance, chemical pollution, damage from construction equipment, and invasive species. • Determine opportunities for transplanting existing planting material. Eliminate invasive species to minimize long-term maintenance costs and protect preferred planting material. • Stakeholder Involvement • Education of owners and/or stakeholders that encourages active participation and ownership of landscape improvements and maximization of sustainable systems. • Implementing effective public education programs to encourage property owners to use pollution prevention measures and maintain the on-site hydrologically functional landscape management practices. Creating an sustainability ethic. • Social • Spaces that encourage social interaction, walkability, and a stronger sense of place and community. • Design approach that is planned, designed, operated and maintained to enable safe, convenient and comfortable travel and access for users of all ages and abilities regardless of their mode of transportation • Provide WalkScore rating. (http://www.walkscore.com) • Public spaces that encourage local based economic activities such as green markets that support local businesses and enable consumers to purchase fresh local produce and healthy goods.

12. Cultural • The host culture playing an active role in sustainable development planning and an integral part of the development. • Incorporation of indigenous knowledge systems and environmental management practices. • Sustainability of cultural diversity, practices and methods. • Promoting cultural tourism. • Enhance the intrinsic values of culture and the ecological connections • Wise use of resources (all award categories should include these measures) • Integration and adoption of renewable energy and/or biomass production. • Implement a construction waste management and recycling plan. • Reduce diesel emissions from construction equipment through using cleaner alternatives to traditional diesel fuel. • Use Environmentally Preferable Materials. Use sustainably harvested / certified woods. Utilize recycled materials (recovered content plastic, aluminum, concrete, glass, steel, rubber, etc.) Use low-emission, non-toxic and/or bio-based products. Examples include water-based coatings, arsenic-free pressure-treated wood, and naturally rot-resistant hardwoods. Use products that are locally manufactured or extracted. Use products that offer lifecycle benefits over conventional products. Minimize levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and overall toxicity. • Utilize integrated pest management techniques to minimize the use of synthetic chemicals for control of disease, invasives and pests. • Food Security (Edible Landscaping award should address these measures) • Incorporate urban agricultural concepts and edible landscapes - vegetable gardens, fruit trees, productive landscapes, green roofs, green walls, aquaponic systems, native edible landscapes, composting, etc. • Owner’s post project continuation of edible landscaping • Organic or minimal chemicals (fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides) • Seasonality of edible landscapes – seasonal or annual • Annual food yield

13. Award Category/Subcategory:___________________________ Project Name, Location_________________________________ Site Plan: NEW ANNEX EXISTING FACULTY BUILDING

14. Pervious Surfaces • Used surface and underground infiltration structures including trenches, vaults/galleries, injection wells, dry wells, leaching fields, rain barrels, etc. on site to reduce stormwater runoff volumes and peak flows, improve water quality, and promote groundwater recharge. • Designed bioretention shallow swales and basins with diverse native plant landscaping in an engineered soil medium to reduce, detain, and treat stormwater runoff. • Used constructed wetlands for bathrooms. Majority of slides should be image pages with sustainability measures described.

15. DIY – Do It Yourself (This is required for all project submittals) • DIY should include instructions for the signature sustainability element of the project. Submittal should include hand drawn or CAD drawings showing cross section with dimensions and material information and Step by step process (specifications).