MELA honors Pizzo with Polaris Award
24 Mar, 2010 LM Direct!GLENCOE, IL — Jack Pizzo, President, principal landscape architect, senior ecologist, and founding partner of Pizzo & Associates, Ltd., earned the Polaris Award from the Midwest Ecological Landscape Association (MELA) during its recent annual conference at the Chicago Botanic Garden here.
Pizzo & Associates is a firm dedicated to protection, restoration, creation and management of natural areas and natural landscapes. For 21 years Pizzo has been involved in teams to restore, design, construct and steward ecological restorations, sustainable developments, parks, preserves and natural landscapes throughout the country.
In presenting the award, MELA Board President Garth Conrad (pictured on right presenting the award to Pizzo) said, "Our Polaris award winner was doing green long before it was fashionable. He founded Pizzo & Associates in the late 1980's, and has steadily built it into a strong industry leader, advancing the use of native plants and ecological practices along the way. He serves as the philosophical and knowledge base of his company.
"Pizzo & Associates are environmental stewards focused solely on ecological restoration. They create, restore, and steward natural areas using cutting edge principles and techniques. Working together with public and private landowners, they convert high maintenance, low function, chemically intensive landscapes to low maintenance highly functional natural areas that become home to native birds and butterflies."
The award itself is traditionally made of 100% recycled materials. Each creation is unique, thanks to the creativity of award designer Kathleen Thompson, who uses with found materials to design an award appropriate to the recipient.
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