Alastair Sawday's 
Earthscan's 
Lonely Planet's 
Nominations open for The Times "Green Spaces" Awards
The Times has launched a new awards for green travel. Readers are invited to nominate a favourite 'Green Space' that they have encountered on holiday in the UK or abroad. This could be any place that has impressed with its environmental and social credentials, such as a hotel or villa, a park, a beach, a city, an area of natural beauty, a restaurant, a bar, a method of transport, a tour or holiday.
Green Space nominations "should practise sound environmental policies, help to care for and preserve local wildlife or give something back to the local community".
Nominations can be for anywhere in the world, but the judges are especially interested to hear about UK destinations.
You may nominate each place only once, but you are allowed to nominate more than one place.
Nominations are open until September 1. The first 20 nominations received each month will each receive a copy of Sawdays' Green Places to Stay.
The award's judges (who have written about their favourite green spaces in today's Times) are:
Toby Sawday (co-founder of the Publishers' Green Network, and business development and sustainability manager for Sawday's Publishing)
Richard Hammond (editor of greentraveller.co.uk)
Anna Shepherd (The Times green guru who writes the Eco Worrier column for the Body&Soul section and writes a green blog)
Steve Keenan (The Times Online Travel Editor)
Kate Quill (The Times Assistant Travel Editor)
and Kathleen Wyatt (The Times Travel Editor).
For more information and to nominate your favourite Green Space, go to: www.timesonline.co.uk/greenspaces.
Great idea
This is a great idea a way of getting beyond the terminology and into the heart of place. I will talk up the idea with others.