Welcome to the Bay Area’s Cox Conserves Heroes Program

To help honor the Bay Area’s unsung environmental heroes and inspire neighborhood conservation, KTVU Channel 2 is proud to partner with The Trust for Public Land to present Cox Conserves Heroes.

Congrats to Naftali Moed for being named the Bay Area's 2011 Cox Conserves Hero. Naftali's nonprofit of choice, Pie Ranch, will receive $5,000.

2011 Finalists:

• Jeffrey Betcher (Quesada Gardens Initiative)
• Arthur Boone (Northern Alameda County Group of the Sierra Club)
• Susan Schwartz (Berkeley Partners for Parks)
• Christopher Vernon (Phat Beets Produce)

This is the third year for the Bay Area’s Cox Conserves Heroes program. Last year, Bruce Beyaert was selected for his volunteer work on the San Francisco Bay Trail, which received $5,000 as his nonprofit of choice. Lennie Roberts was the Bay Area’s first Cox Conserves Hero in 2009 in recognition of her 50 tireless years of environmental volunteer work. As Roberts’ nonprofit of choice, the Committee for Green Foothills received $5,000.