This year's award winners were announced at a ceremony at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The full list of winners is below
This year's award winners were announced at a ceremony at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The full list of winners is below.
The Observer Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
James Lovelock
World-renowned scientist, James Lovelock, has won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2011 Observer Ethical Awards, in association with Ecover. Lovelock the originator of the Gaia hypothesis was recognised for pioneering a model that now forms the basis of climate science.
James Lovelock began his career at the Medical Research Council but has variously worked for NASA, Harvard, with Lord Rothschild (the former boss of Shell) and for MI5. It was while working at NASA on the programme to establish whether there was life on Mars that Lovelock developed the Gaia Hypothesis, which postulates that the biosphere is a self-regulating entity with the capacity to keep healthy by controlling the chemical and physical environment. Many consider this his most important work that underpins today's view of climate science. Lovelock was also one of the first people to discover a link between CFCs and the depletion in the ozone layer through the invention of the electron capture detector, a device that detects atoms and molecules in gas. By his own admission, Lovelock has spent most of his career outside of the scientific establishment. He is both an inspiration to and detractor of the 'green movement' not least because of his support of nuclear energy. At 92 he continues to work every day and is writing his next book.
Local Retailer
Winner
The People's Supermarket
Recently featured on a Channel 4 documentary, the People's Supermarket in Holborn, London, aims to be a sustainable food cooperative providing healthy food at reasonable prices.
Runners-up
The Better Food Company
Offering fresh, organic produce in the Bristol area, the Better Food Company work to reduce food miles and support local suppliers.
Unicorn Wholefood Co-operative Grocery
Unicorn is a co-operative grocery based in South Manchester. Owned and run by the workforce, the grocery donates 5% of its wage bill to local and international projects.
Online Retailer
Winner
Riverford Organic Vegetables
Riverford deliver around 47,000 boxes of vegetables and other produce in the UK every week. A network of sister farms allows Riverford to supply a wide area while maintaining their ethical standards.
Runners-up
Wiggly Wigglers
Offering an array of natural gardening supplies, Wiggly Wigglers have moved on from wormeries and now sell a huge range of environmentally friendly products.
Offset Warehouse
Offset Warehouse is a social enterprise offering a one-stop online shop for ethical clothing and interiors. Their website provides a wealth of information on the sourcing of products they stock.
Campaigner sponsored by B&Q
Winner
Compassion In World Farming
Speaking up for those who can't speak up for themselves, CIWF campaigns for an end to cruel factory farming practices. Recent successes include a high profile campaign against the Nocton "mega dairy."
Runners-up
38 Degrees
Named after the angle at which an avalanche occurs, 38 Degrees aims to mobilise mass participation to campaign for social and environmental justice and dispel the apathy so often associated with modern politics.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
A familiar face through his campaigns around chicken farming and fish conservation, Hugh won last year's award and has continued to fight for better husbandry.
Global Campaigner
Winner
Greg Valerio
Greg is a pioneer in the international development of fairly traded jewellery and is recognised globally as one of the loudest and most persistent voices in the fight for responsible mining.
Runners-up
Avaaz
Roughly translating as "voice," Avaaz has a simple mission: to organize citizens of all nations to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want.
Greenpeace
Forty years since it was founded, Greenpeace has grown into perhaps the best recognised environmental campaign movement in the world. Their mission of positive change through action is often controversial but never easy to ignore.
Ecover Ethical Kids
Winner
Savy B.O.B. Box
Year 8 pupils from Merseyside, working alongside Duke of Edinburgh Award students, make, sell and distribute unique bat or bird boxes within the local community.
Runners-up
Green Gateways Business Club
As part of this Yorkshire based project pupils run and attend green business breakfasts at school. National companies such as Asda and KMPG have spoken at the networking events.
Turners Hill Primary School
Turners Hill have pioneered a continuing, whole school eco project, spanning over 20 years, embedding environmental issues into the curriculum to promote and encourage awareness from an early age.
Fashion & Accessories sponsored by VOGUE.COM
Winner
Pachacuti
Pachacuti was founded in 1992 and combines British design with sustainable production in the Andes by women who are socially, geographically and economically marginalised. Their trademark Panama hats epitomise slow fashion.
Runners-up
Christopher Raeburn
Christopher Raeburn constructs innovative outerwear from reworked military fabrics. Staunchly British, all garments are proudly "Remade in England".
Veja
Veja is a pioneering brand of footwear established in 2005 which works under fair trade principles with small producers across Brazil and uses ecological materials.
Big Idea sponsored by National Grid
Winner
Pavegen
Pavegen use wasted kinetic energy from footsteps and turn it into electricity- allowing people to take part in energy saving in a fun educational way. The project is set to be the only commercial kinetic renewable energy generating technology in the world.
Runners-up
Biogen Greenfinch
BiogenGreenfinch takes waste food from households, supermarkets, restaurants and food manufacturers and through its natural anaerobic digestion process produces renewable electricity, heat and a ready-to-use fertiliser for crops.
Giveacar
Giveacar raises funds for charities through scrapping or auction of old and end-of-life donated vehicles. They limit the environmental impact of end-of-life vehicle disposal and have raised over �250,000 since January 2010.
Grassroots sponsored by Timberland
Winner
The Bristol Bike Project
A volunteer-run, community bicycle project that repairs, reuses and relocates unwanted bicycles within underprivileged and marginalised groups in our city.
Runners-up
Liftshare
Liftshare is dedicated to reducing the number of cars on our roads by helping people find others going their way, so they can car-share. Over 420,000 individuals have signed up to date, and members are currently taking about 80,000 car journeys off the UK's roads every day.
Putting Down Roots
A gardening project for homeless people run by St Mungo's in hostels, parks and an allotment, developing gardening skills, providing maintenance and improving public safety.
Business sponsored by Jupiter Asset Management
Winner
The Co-operative Group
The Co-operative Group is a member-owned and UK-based family of businesses operating primarily in the food retail, financial services, travel, pharmacy and funeralcare sectors.
Runners-up
Global Ethics
Global Ethics aim to massively, positively and permanently change lives in the world's poorest communities by encouraging people to select their "One" branded products when buying everyday essentials.
Yeo Valley
Yeo Valley is an independent, family-owned dairy and farming business based in Somerset, and is the number one organic dairy brand in the UK. Yeo Valley is committed to sustainable, ethical and environmentally-friendly British farming.
Conservation
Winner
Thameside Nature Park
Essex Wildlife Trust are turning 845 acres of landfill site on the north bank of the Thames into a living landscape for wildlife and people.
Runners-up
Good Catch
Good Catch provides practical information and events, helping the culinary and catering sector navigate seafood sustainability to buy, serve and promote marine-friendly menu options.
Peak District Environmental Quality Mark
The Peak District Environmental Quality Mark (EQM) is an award for businesses that help conserve and enhance the Peak District National Park.
Blog
Winner
Shirahime: http://shirahime.com
This blog hopes to complement the typical, style oriented fashion publication by providing thoroughly researched background insights, and shedding a critical light onto what is going on in the broad area of sustainability/ethics in the fashion and clothing industry.
Runners-up
Well Seasoned: www.wellseasoned.co.uk
Well Seasoned started as a blog in 2009 to champion seasonal eating and British seasonal events. It quickly gained a significant following and evolved into a campaign website with blog, recipes and trip reports.
YouGen: http://www.yougen.co.uk/blog
The YouGen blog brings together reporting, comment and expert advice with the aim of educating and entertaining readers, and creating confident, informed consumers in the market for renewable energy.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/09/winners
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