Conservation Community Joins with Resource Development Council to Promote Creative Partnerships

The Alaska Conservation Alliance and the Resource Development Council (RDC) have both stated that economic development and environmental stewardship are not mutually exclusive goals. Now they intend to show this to be true by jointly establishing an award to honor organizations, individuals and/or businesses that create solutions and innovations advancing both goals. They are calling this award the “Tileston Award” in honor of two long-time Alaskans, Peg and Jules Tileston, who worked on seemingly different sides of conservation and development issues but who always agreed “that if it is in Alaska, IT MUST BE DONE RIGHT!”

The Award was officially launched at RDC’s bi-monthly breakfast meeting January 17, 2008 at the Petroleum Club. On hand to launch this cooperative effort, were RDC’s President John Shively and Alaska Conservation Voters President Pat Pourchot, both former Commissioners of the Department of Natural Resources.

View a pdf of the Anchorage Daily News article published on March 13, 2008

The Tileston award will not be viewed as a ‘green’ award for the resource development industry or as ‘economic’ recognition for a conservation organization. It will be a uniquely Alaskan award whose recipients are determined by Board members from each organization.

The deadline for nomination was March 31, 2008, and has closed. Please check back for further updates.