Ethecon Foundation


Ethecon Foundation is a German environmental organisation, which describes itself as a "foundation for ethics and economy". 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 significantly to the construction of a self-governing children's hospital in Fukushima, which commenced operation in 2013.

Blue Planet Award recipients