St Andrews Prize for the Environment
- St Andrews Prize for the Environment
The St Andrews Prize for the Environment is a prize awarded by Scotland's University of St Andrews and the American integrated energy company, ConocoPhillips for recognises significant contributions to environmental conservation. The prize has been running since 1998. The 2006 prize was worth $50,000.
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.
External links
* [http://www.thestandrewsprize.com St Andrews Prize website]
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