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.^[1]

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 US$25,000.^[2]

Winners[]

List of winners has been taken from the St Andrews Prize website^[3]

1999 - , of the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa for work connected to the environmental degradation caused by early mining developments.
2000 - and of An-Najah National University, West Bank for a proposal to turn the waste from olive oil production into useful by-products.
2001 - of the University of Nairobi, Kenya for a community education project to combat the environmental hazards that are choking Lake Victoria.
2002 - 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 - 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 - of 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