YOU'VE got until midnight on Monday. It doesn't take long once you've put aside time to consider, decide and place fingers on a keyboard. But there are only a few days left to do it.

Carol Goring made her nomination last week, positively glowing about her time on a Bavarian Forest Holidays in Germany. So did Judy Bell, ecstatic in her nomination of Brue Activity Centre, Somerset.

Their entries join more than 120 other nominations received. Next week the tough process of shortlisting the finalists will begin.

We'll revisit those outstanding places that we already know manage to offer memorable travel experiences based on sound green principles. And our judges will have new places to explore, which we have learnt about from you.

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But there are only a few days left - nominations close at midnight on Monday. The overall prize is a five-night, luxury trip for two to Venice by train. So it's time to start thinking.

Be as passionate as Jane Paterson, who this month thumped the tub for the Assynt Foundation in Lochinver - or Anne Burns, who champions the sustainable pleasures of Treshnish Farm on Mull. Both places have great green credentials as well as fabulous settings and hospitality, which pretty well ticks all boxes.

But it's not just magnificently qualified British and continental Green Spaces that we want to hear about - we aim to cover the world.

So thank you, Martine Bailey, who this month endorsed Crocodylus Village Youth Hostel in Australia's Daintree rainforest, and Lucy Bale, who raves about the credentials of Mumbo Island in Malawi.

Passion and persuasion is a common thread - and most back it up with plenty of information about what makes it special. Solar or geothermal power is important, energy efficiency and recycling, too.

Community involvement is often at the heart of what makes your nominations special.

Witness a lovely entry from Bernadette Erskine this month for Village Ways in India, where houses built and owned by locals use solar for hot water and rainwater for showers.

But beyond that, there should be an enjoyment about staying in or visiting these Green Spaces, a remembered exhilaration of when you were able to combine aesthetics and hedonism.

We are not preaching hairshirt responsibility, after all, just clean green fun.

In this, our debut year of Green Spaces awards, we've split the nominations into seven categories:

Britain

1 Best place to stay

2 Best open space

3 Best project

Europe

4 Best place to stay

5 Best open space

Worldwide

6 Best place to stay

7 Best open space

Please put the category number in your email. Add as much information as you can, then double the passion and persuasion when drawing up your nomination - and a photograph is helpful.

Then email your entries to Greenspaces@thetimes.co.uk

Go on, make a difference.

Judges' choices for August

Village Ways, Uttarakhand, India

There's no minibar, infinity pools or butler service, but you will get an insight into Indian village life that is often missed by resort-dwellers. The local community owns and runs the solar-powered lodges where guests stay after guided day treks through the Binsar wildlife sanctuary.

Nominated by Bernadette Erskine, Abergavenny

www.villageways.com

Caerfai Farm, Pembrokshire

Visit the farm shop for organic produce, or make a holiday of it and stay at the campsite, five minutes' walk from the beach at Caerfai Bay. Arrive by foot or bicycle and you'll be rewarded with a discount on a camping pitch. This is one of the only farms in Britain with a biogas digester, which creates methane for energy. Nominated by Sian Moxon, London

www.cawscaerfai.co.uk

Sandford Parks Lido, Cheltenham

I doubt I could live in a city without a lido. This is an oasis in the centre of Cheltenham where people go to swim and enjoy the tranquiltree- lined enclosure. There is a café, a separate heated pool for children, basketball and table tennis.

Nominated by Claire Haines, Cheltenham

www.sandfordparkslido.org.uk; www.lidos.org.uk

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