Each year CEI celebrates community leaders and initiatives that have made a positve impact on our natural environment and honors the numerous environmental accomplishments in the Greater Rochester area.
It is a great opportunity to network and celebrate with all those friends and community members you've been wanting to connect with. Businesses can also display their goods and services. You can savor delectable hors d’oeuvres; bid on exciting and fun items from artwork to theatre tickets; and enjoy a delicious dinner and talk on relevant environmental problems or innovative solutions that are of importance.
You can enjoy all this and the good feeling of knowing you are helping Center for Environmental Information continue its 34 years of collaborating with citizens, businesses and government, serving our community and promoting good choices for the environment in Rochester.
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Edward (Ted) Peck Curtis, Jr. Environmental Leadership Award left to right: Ted Peck, Kevin Flynn |
EDWARD “TED” PECK CURTIS, JR., is being recognized with CEI’s 2007 Environmental Leadership Award for his decades of public service which have emphasized the significance of the magnificent water resources that are so much a part of our region’s past, present, and future.
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S. Ram Shrivastava left to right: S. Ram Shrivastava, Georgiana Prince |
S. RAM SHRIVASTAVA, President, Larsen Engineers
Since his election to the CEI Board of Directors in 1993, S. Ram Shrivastava, President of Larsen Engineers, has played an unparalleled leadership role with the organization. He became CEI’s vice-president for finance and treasurer in 1995, continuing in that capacity until 2002 when he became president of CEI’s Board of Directors, remaining in that position for five years through 2006.
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Arthur T. DeGaetano |
Dr. DeGaetano is the Director of Northeast Regional Climate Center and Editor of the American Meteorological Society Journal of Applied Meteorology. His research has been structured around the primary goal of enhancing the use and utility of climate data and information in weather sensitive decisions towards the development and dissemination of climatological information to decision-makers in a variety of fields.
The Hugh E. Cumming Environmental Quality Award is named in memory of the civic leader and president of Curtice-Burns Foods, who served for many years as a CEI Board member, treasurer and vice-president and as the first chair of CEI’s Environmental Quality Award Committee. Click here to view this year's winners.
2007 Community Salute Invitation
See below how we have celebrated our past Community Salutes!!
CEI's 32nd Community Salute to the Environment was held on October 25, 2006 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Rochester. Our 2006 keynote speaker was Peter R. Smith, President and CEO of NYSERDA. This year's Environmental Leadership Award went to Georgia & Thomas Gosnell, the Hugh E. Cumming Award to Edward J. Doherty and the Hartwell Volunteer Award to Wayne & Sally Howard of SOLARA Concepts.
Held on October 12, 2005 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Downtown Rochester, the 2005 Community Salute celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Hugh E. Cumming Environmental Quality Awards. Our keynote speaker for the 2005 Community Salute was Paul W. Bledsoe, Director of Communications and Strategy for the National Commission on Energy Policy.
The 2004 Community Salute was held on October 20, 2004 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Rochester. The keynote speaker for the evening was Dr. Gene Likens, Director, Institute of Ecosystem Studies and National Medal of Science Honoree.
The 2003 Community Salute was held on October 28, 2003 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Rochester. The keynote speaker for the evening was Dr. Richard H. Moss, Director, U.S. Climate Change Science Program Office.
The 2002 Community Salute was held at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Rochester on October 29, 2002. The keynote speaker for the evening was Robert Howarth, David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology, Cornell University.