2026 Bellmon Sustainability Awards

Each year, The Sustainability Alliance recognizes the top five organizations through achievements made in Scor3acrd, the regions first sustainability tracking and improvement tool. This year was the 15th Annual ceremony, highlighting the enduring strength and progress of the triple bottom line strategy's foothold taking shape in Oklahoma and beyond. See the full photo album from the event or check out the winner's videos from this year and the full archive with past winner's here.

In 2009, Tulsa South Side Rotary Club collaborated with The Sustainability Alliance, then known as Sustainable Tulsa, to develop the Henry Bellmon Sustainability Awards with the blessing of the former Governor's Family. Henry Bellmon, a statesman who reached across the aisle, was committed to conservation and his three daughters and grandchildren have carried on his legacy. After eight years, the award was handed off to The Sustainability Alliance, whose team helped grow the affair into an Oscar's themed evening, complete with premiering videos capturing the impressive impact made by each winner.

The 2026 Winners:

• Overall Category - Tulsa Zoo

• Large Category (501+ employees) - Spirit Aerosystems (Boeing)

• Medium Category (101 - 500 employees) - Cox Communications Tulsa

• Small Category (51 - 100 employees) - SLB Kellyville Learning Center

• Micro Category (50 employees or less) - ES2

Much like the landscape of sustainability, the Scor3card program is ever evolving. As a tool it is functional, provides organization to ideas and goals, and supports efficient workflows. As a community, Scor3card responds to its members, creates meaningful connections, and grows the knowledge of how “business as sustainable” is simply just good business.

The 15th Annual Bellmon Sustainability Awards brought together hallmarks of the region's sustainability network.

Guest speakers included:

Reagan Gowens, Executive Director of TYPROS

Graham Branin, Former Director of The M.e.t.

Steve Grantham, Executive Director of Up With Trees

Ann Denny, Daughter of Henry Bellmon

Staff and board members of The Sustainability Alliance:

Lindsey Barbour, Managing Director of CCK Strategies & Board Treasurer

Richard Cox, Facilities Director of Spirit AeroSystems Boeing Tulsa & Board President

Corey Williams, Executive Director

Morgan Fehrle, Programs and Communications Manager

Missy Lukenbaugh, Community Engagement Coordinator

And messages from:

Krystal Reyes, Deputy Mayor of The City of Tulsa

Scott Bort, Sales & Special Projects Manager of the Organic Recyclers (Presenting Sponsors of the event)

The evening was billed as part of a two-night showcase called "Intersection", a new collaborative effort between The Sustainability Alliance, Circle Cinema, Tulsa Artists Fellowship, and RiverParks Authority focused on creating connections of land, human health and wellbeing, and economic sustainability.

The showcase took place at the historic Circle Cinema, a local non-profit theater, featuring the Bellmon Awards on Thursday evening, April 9th and the premiere of Forest in a City, a feature length documentary about the adaptation journey of Turkey Mountain directed and filmed by Missy Lukenbaugh, Community Engagement Coordinator for The Sustainability Alliance and current fellow with the Tulsa Artist Fellowship.

The Bellmon Awards were catered by Cow and Cabbage, one of Lisa Buckland (recently nominated for a Jame's Beard award) and Linda Ford's four farm-to-table focused restaurants in the greater Tulsa area.

Attendees waltzed down the green carpet, shared stories of sustainability-related projects and advancements, and gathered to celebrate the winners as their stories aired on the silver screen.