2008 Award Winners

Announcing the winners and award-winning works of the following categories:

The award-winning works will be shown at the Eco Products 2008 exhibition in the Tokyo International Exhibition Center (Tokyo Big Sight) from December 11th (Thursday) to 13th (Saturday).

Business Category

Environmental Business Awards

Product Category
“Water Treatment Membranes”
Toyobo Co., Ltd.
Service Category
“CO2 Offset Products”
Lawson, Inc.

Environmental Business Venture Awards

Grand Prize (3,000,000 yen)
No winner
Best Effort Prizes (1,000,000 yen each)
“MAPKAR, a Plastic-substitute Material Made Mainly of Waste Paper”
Kankyo Keiei Sougou Kenkyusyo Co., Ltd
“Manufacture and Sales of Water-saving, Energy-efficient Kitchen Equipment for Commercial Use” (Product names: ECO Smile Joybit, ECO Producer Joynex)
PICO ADA Co., Ltd.
SMBC Prize (500,000 yen)
“Bio-ethanol Production Business Model for Locally Produced and Locally Consumed Energy”
JEPLAN Co., Ltd.
JP Community Coexistence Business Award (500,000 yen)
“Biomass That Shapes the Future of Resources-Recycling Based Zero-Emission Agriculture and Communities”
Peace Wave Inc.
Environmental Business Women Prize (100,000 yen)
My Earth Project, LLC
Global Environment Card Game “My Earth”
GE Judge's Special Award
“Reduction of VOC Gases Using Microwave Pulse Plasma Technology”
Imagineering, Inc.
*GE Judge's Special Award:
The Award was established this year to seek out superior environmental technologies from Japan. The award winner(s) will be invited to visit the GE Global Research Center, established by Thomas Edison, in Niskayuna, New York, USA.

Culture Category

Eco Design

Grand Prize (1,000,000 yen)
“Sensory Wall Socket” Yuichiro Minato / Satoshi Amemiya
Runner-Up Prize (500,000 yen)
No winner
Jury’s Encouragement Awards (100,000 yen each)
“Blossoming Garden“ Yuko Kobayashi
Mai Shibatani
“HAAV (Handy and Active Vehicle)” Yukihiro Kuroda

Eco Communication

Grand Prize (1,000,000 yen)
“Solomon’s Ring -- Remind Me” Tetsu Hattori
Mikio Wakafuji
Runner-Up Prize (500,000 yen)
No winner
Jury’s Encouragement Awards (100,000 yen each)
"‘Ecopoly’ Board Game for Environmental Education” Tatsuya Komuro
Toshiyuki Matsumoto
“Taro’s Poo-poo” Atsuko Igarashi
“The Earth is Angry” Katsuhiko Suzuki

Eco Art

Grand Prize (1,000,000 yen)
No winner
Runner-Up Prizes (500,000 yen each)
“Questionnaire Art -- Environmental Issues” Yuichi Matsumoto
“As if to nothing” Andreas Templin
Jury’s Encouragement Awards (100,000 yen each)
“Eco Map” Yukie Katagiri
“Scrap Pattern” Akira Tanaka
“Humankind Greening Declaration” Jun Nakadan
“When the Oceans Meet” Aiko Miyanaga

Eco Music

Grand Prize (1,000,000 yen)
“Tokyo’s Stars” Monday Tuesday
Runner-Up Prize (500,000 yen)
No winner
team HAKUHODO RECORDS Prize (300,000 yen)
“The Earth’s Voices - Bonding” Akio Hayashi
Jury’s Encouragement Awards (100,000 yen each)
“Heisei Environmental Dance Song” Taeru Minemi
“Nature’s Common Sense” Keita Tate
“A New Tomorrow” Lars Knudson

Lifestyle Category

Eco Challenge!

Eco Challenge! Grand Prize(300,000 yen)
“Eco Driver Marks Made from Magnetic Sheets”　　　Tetsuo Takai
Eco Idea Grand Prize (300,000 yen)
No winner
Eco Idea Prize (150,000 yen)
“Arresting Global Warming by Fast-running Solar-powered Scooter”　　　
Chikara Murayama
Eco Challenge! Dentsu Prize (50,000 yen)
“Carbon Off Passport”　　　Kaoru Kunita
Special Award: Expanding Eco-life Award (200,000 yen)
“Enjoying an Eco-life of Growing and Cooking Plants and Connecting with People! -- Self-publishing the Book ‘Gourds: Enjoying the Blessings of a Green Curtain’”
Atsuko Takayama
Special Award: Everyday is a Fun Day Award (100,000 yen)
“Reviving the Practice of Dusting with a Trumpet-Shape Vacuum Cleaner”　
Narimichi Ishikawa

Eco-Conscious Community "Genki Grand Awards 2008"

Genki Grand Prize (300,000 yen)
“Community-Based Project for the Promotion of Sustainable ‘Eating and Environment’”
Hokkaido Nakashibetsu High School, Agriculture Club
Encouragement Prize (100,000 yen)
“Revitalizing the Island by Saving It” - Working towards Sustainable Tourism without Relying on Development
NPO “Island Wind”
Special Prizes (50,000 yen each)
“Water Purification Project for Kakogawa River’s 129 Tributaries through Upstream-Downstream Cooperation”
River Clean Eco-Charcoal (Ecotan) Bank
“Bicycle-Sharing in the Vicinity of Kyoto’s Demachi Yanagi Station”
Kyoto Demachi Yanagi Bicycle Rental “Karion”
Genki Grand Prize-Dentsu Prize (50,000 yen)
“Dispatching a Message from Ginza to the World -- Human Beings Coexisting with Nature with the Help of Honeybees”
NPO “Ginza Honeybee Project”