Ethecon Foundation
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| Founded | 2004 |
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| Type | Non-profit NGO |
| Focus | ecology and society |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
| Method | Advocacy |
| Website | Stiftung Ethik & Ökonomie |
Ethecon Foundation is a German environmental organisation, which describes itself as a "foundation for ethics and economy".[1]
Contents
History
Founded in 2004, Ethecon started presenting annual awards, the Blue Planet Award which is given for actions deemed to be protecting the environment, and conversely the Black Planet Award given to those deemed to be destroying it, in 2006. This first - and until now only - foundation critical of globalization and corporations initiated campaigns against Monsanto, Nestlé, Blackwater and TEPCO and has contributed considerably to the construction of a self-governing children's hospital in Fukushima, which commenced operation in 2013.[2]
Blue Planet Award recipients
- 2006 - Diane Wilson, environmental activist[1]
- 2007 - Vandana Shiva, environmental activist[1][3][4]
- 2008 - Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela[5][1]
- 2009 - Uri Avnery, Israeli peace activist[1]
- 2010 - Elias Bierdel, human-rights activist[6]
- 2011 - Angela Davis, political activist[7]
- 2012 - Jean Ziegler, human-rights activist[8][9][10]
- 2013 - Esther Béjarano, Holocaust survivor[11]
- 2014/15 - Tomo Križnar, Slovenian peace activist[12]
Black Planet Award recipients
- 2006 - Monsanto[1]
- 2007 - Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman of Nestle, and Nestle shareholder Liliane Bettencourt were chosen by the Ethecon Foundation because in their opinion Nestle had engaged in "irresponsible marketing of baby-food, genetic engineering and the monopolizing of water."[13]
- 2008 - Xe Services. The award was delivered in person to Erik Prince, CEO of Xe Services at the time.[14]
- 2009 - Formosa Plastics Group and its CEO, Lee Chih-tsuen.[1] Former Blue Planet winner Diane Wilson travelled to Taiwan to deliver the award in person.[15]
- 2010 - BP for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill[16][17][18]
- 2011 - Tokyo Electric Power Company for the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster[19]
- 2012 - Glencore Xstrata along with Ivan Glasenberg (CEO), Simon Murray (Chairman) and Tony Hayward (committee for environment, health and safety)[9][20]
- 2013 - (the CEO and major shareholders of) Deutsche Bank[21][11]
- 2014/15 - CEOs Andrew Liveris and James Ringler and major shareholders of Dow Chemical (USA)[12]
References
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