Ethecon Foundation

Ethecon Foundation is a German environmental organisation, which describes itself as a "foundation for ethics and economy".^[1]

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

1. "What do Hugo Chavez, Vandana Shiva, and Diane Wilson Have In Common?". Chelsea Green Publishing. 2009. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
2. Wolfgang Teuber, Peter Kleinert (Feb 12, 2014). "Für eine Welt ohne Ausbeutung und Unterdrückung: 10 Jahre ethecon-Stiftung". Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Retrieved July 14, 2015.
3. "Nestle wins the Black Planet Award 2007". International Baby Food Action Network. October 16, 2007. Archived from the original on May 23, 2011. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
4. "International ethecon Awards for 2013". Finance GreenWatch. 2013. Retrieved May 13, 2013.
5. "Präsident Hugo Chávez und Meister Abreu erhielten "Blue Planet Award" in Deutschland". Gobierno Bolivariano de Venezuela. March 16, 2009. Archived from the original on October 20, 2013. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
6. "Blue Planet Award 2010: Former minister Wieczorek-Zeul to give laudation for refugee- and human rights activist Elias Bierdel". openPR. October 22, 2010. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
7. "Censure award for TEPCO Award to be handed over in Tokyo to those responsible for Fukushima (Ethecon)". Finance GreenWatch. June 22, 2012. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
8. "Jean Ziegler erhält den "Blue Planet Award 2012"". offene Akademie. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
9. Hans See (Dec 2012). "Jean Ziegler erhält ethecon-Ehrenpreis". Ossietzky - Zweiwochenschrift für Politik/Kultur/Wirtschaft.
10. ""It is a mass murder" International ethecon Blue Planet Award 2012 for Jean Ziegler (ethecon)". Finance GreenWatch. November 19, 2012. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
11. "ethecon Awards 2013: Ceremony & Insult & Concert". Ethecon Foundation. September 21, 2013. Retrieved Sep 25, 2013.
12. Peter Kleinert (September 24, 2014). "Ehrung & Schmähung: Die Internationalen ethecon Awards 2014 werden in Berlin verliehen". Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
13. "Blue Planet Award for Dr. Vandana Shiva". Ethecon Foundation. Retrieved February 21, 2014.
14. "Code Pink Awards Blackwater "Black Planet Award"". Chelsea Green Publishing. May 19, 2009. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
15. Wilson, Diane (2011). Diary of an Eco-Outlaw: An Unreasonable Woman Breaks the Law for Mother Earth. Chelsea Green Publishing. ISBN 978-1603582155. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
16. Juhasz, Antonia (April 17, 2011). ""The Oil Is Not Gone": BP Tries to Block Gulf Residents from Shareholder Meeting". AlterNet. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
17. Clark, Andrew (April 17, 2011). "BP creates another fine mess as it bars Deepwater protesters". Guardian.co.uk. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
18. "Gulf Coast Fisherwoman "Disrupts the Peace" at BP Shareholder Meeting". Democracy Now!. April 14, 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
19. "Black Planet Award to TEPCO". Indiatimes. June 27, 2010. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
20. "Black Planet Award: Presentation of negative award to GLENCORE directors (Ethecon)". Finance GreenWatch. May 18, 2013. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
21. Hannes Koch (May 21, 2014). "Negativpreis für die Deutsche Bank: Klimasünder statt Kulturwandler". taz.de. Retrieved July 13, 2015.

External links

• Official website