Application fees for this award fund social impact campaigns and research grants.
[1] Twelve journalists each year receive recognition for environmental reporting, particularly investigative journalism.
[1] Past award winners include writers for traditional news media such as The Guardian[3][4] and more recent, web-based platforms like Grist[5][6][7] and Mongabay.
[8][9][10] SEAL Awards have advocated for the creation of a credit card whose interchange fees would pay into climate change programs rather than a traditional credit rewards program,[12] targeted cup waste in the Starbucks café chain[13] and Yelp reviews of restaurants using plastic straws,[14] and endorsed Jay Inslee for the 2020 United States presidential campaign.
[15] The environmental rewards credit card was presented as an open-source concept in a detailed business case launch memo.