The New England Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) presented Don Hudson with an Environmental Merit Lifetime Achievement Award on at historic Faneuil Hall in Boston April 22.
Several hundred dignitaries from New England were present for the event, which also marked the 40th anniversary of the EPA and of Earth Day. The award, which is the oldest EPA awards program in the nation, recognizes outstanding environmental advocates who have dedicated their lives to preserving and protecting New England’s natural resources.
Ten individuals were recognized in addition to Mr. Hudson, for making the environment and public heath their life’s work.
Hudson has been president of Chewonki Foundation since 1991 and has worked at Chewonki since 1962. Hudson, who will retire this summer, has served as Chewonki’s president since 1991 and is one of only three people who have led the organization since its founding as a boys camp in 1915.
The Chewonki Foundation is a nonprofit educational institution established in 1962 and located on a 400-acre peninsula in Wiscasset, Maine. Chewonki is dedicated to helping people grow individually and in community with others by providing educational experiences that foster an understanding, appreciation and stewardship of the natural world.
Chewonki’s leaders challenge participants both physically and intellectually with activities that build self-confidence, a sense of community, and a greater awareness of the inter relatedness of the world around us.
The Chewonki Foundation offers summer camp programs; wilderness trips for teenagers and adults; residential, school-year environmental education programs; traveling lessons in natural science to schools; and a residential semester program of academic study for 11th grade students.
