Meigs Award

Henry Meigs Award for Environmental Leadership

The Meigs Environmental Leadership Award is given annually to honor individuals who have demonstrated outstanding environmental leadership, leaving a meaningful and lasting impact on their community and our region. The award celebrates environmental leaders who embody a spirit of leadership, integrity, and vision, and honors the memory of one of the Center’s founding visionaries, Henry Meigs.

Past winners come from many backgrounds: scientists, educators, artists, elected officials, advocates, etc.

  • Past Recipients

    2022
    Rich Giordano, President, Upper Roxborough Civic Association

    2021
    Mindy Maslin, Program Manager Tree Tenders, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

    2020
    Jerome Shabazz, Executive Director, Overbrook Environmental Education Center

    2019
    Mary Jane Stretch and Leah Stallings, Aark Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Center

    2018
    Stacy Levy, Environmental Artist

    2017
    Kay Sykora, Founder, Manayunk Development Corporation, West Philadelphia

    2016
    Carole Williams-Green, President and Founder, Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Education Center, West Philadelphia

    2015
    Robert A. Mercer, Silver Lake Nature Center, Bristol, New Jersey

    2014
    Dr. Ann Fowler Rhoads

    2013
    Thomas Dolan IV

    2012
    Joseph Otis Minott, Esq., Executive Director, Clean Air Council

    2011
    Michael DiBerardinis, Deputy Mayor for Environmental and Community Resources, City of Philadelphia

    2010
    William G. Walkup

    2009
    Project TREND Volunteers

    2008
    Cindy and John Affleck

    2007
    Edward Rendell, Pennsylvania Governor

    2006
    Denis O′Brien, President, PECO

Henry Meigs Youth Award for Environmental Leadership honors youth who demonstrate environmental leadership within their communities, showing the potential to be environmental leaders and to leave a meaningful impact. This award typically celebrates a specific project a youth leader or group has worked on, but may also honor their work overall.