The Earth Awards
The Earth Awards are taking place this September and is designed to be a platform to showcase the latest in all things innovative and ecological from across the globe. They pride themselves on being ‘committed to the idea of popularising the most viable of [each years] most viable innovations and transforming them into market ready solutions’.
They have six innovation categories:
- The Built Environment
- Products
- The Future
- Systems
- Fashion
- Social Justice
With innovations fitting into one of six criteria:
- Ecological
- Original
- Measurable
- Achievable
- Useful
- Scalable
With winners in each category winning $10,000 and the grand prizewinner receiving $50,000.
Overall they encourage some pretty smart ecological solutions to 21st Century problems. Check out what last year’s winning innovation was here.
