St Andrews Prize for the Environment
The St Andrews Prize for the Environment is an international initiative by the University of St Andrews in Scotland and the independent exploration and production company ConocoPhillips.
The award recognises significant contributions to environmental issues and concerns. Applications are invited from individuals, multi-disciplinary teams or community groups. The winning environmental project receives funding of $100,000 USD and each of the two runners-up receive $25,000 USD.
Winners
- 1999 - Daniel Limpitlaw, of the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa for work connected to the environmental degradation caused by early mining developments.
- 2000 - Hikmat Hilal and Amer El-Hamouz of An-Najah National University, West Bank for a proposal to turn the waste from olive oil production into useful by-products.
- 2001 - George Odera Outa of the University of Nairobi, Kenya for a community education project to combat the environmental hazards that are choking Lake Victoria.
- 2002 - Monina Escalada of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines, for an initiative aimed at persuading a rice farmers in North Vietnam to stop spraying insecticides.
- 2003 - Bunker Roy, the founder of the Barefoot College, Rajasthan, India, for bringing solar energy to remote Himalayan villages, using so-called 'barefoot engineers'.
- 2004 - Conrad Feather who worked with the Nahua people of Peru allowing them to map their territory using the latest GPS, photographic, radio and video equipment.
- 2005 - Ian Thorpe founder of Pump Aid, which has developed the Elephant Pump a pump built using simple technology and locally available materials.
- 2006 - Erika Vohman of The Equilibrium Fund for promoting the use of Maya nut in Central America.
- 2007 - David Manalo and his team for the River, Fibre and Power Project providing sustainable lighting services in remote locations in the Philippines
- 2008 - Elephant Toilet, a sustainable sanitation solution for Africa
- 2009 - One Earth Designs for the development of the SolSource high-performance solar cooker to meet the needs of Himalayan villagers at >90% energy efficiency
- 2010 - Arsenic removal project
- 2011 - BioLite project
- 2012 - Lion Guardians project
- 2013 - Lucy King beehive fence to control elephants
- 2014 - Vikas Mohan Blue Ventures
References
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