eco.ch

eco.ch is a nationwide association, which was founded in 2006 by 15 sponsors to promote projects that serve the conservation and sustainable use of nature. The main project of the association is to support the Forum eco.ch, an annual dialogue and communication platform consisting of three events: eco.naturkongress , eco.festival and the awarding of the Swiss sustainability prices prix eco.ch .

history

The association was established in 2006 under the name "Association Advisory Board NATURE". The founding members were mainly active in the field of nature and environmental protection . Later, new members such as Max Havelaar or Swisscleantech joined, whose areas of activity are increasingly focused on social and economic sustainability. The expansion of the thematic range of members resulted in a renaming of the association from “Association Advisory Board NATUR” to “eco.ch”. The eco.ch office is managed by the Basel company ecos AG.

In the spring of 2017, the eco.ch association adopted its guiding principles. The guiding principles are intended to create additional identity and make the eco.ch network and goals more clearly recognizable.

Sponsorship

The association's sponsorship is broad. The most important and well-known Swiss environmental organizations, associations and authorities in the field of sustainability are members of the eco.ch association.

The members (founding members marked with *) of the association are:

• WWF *
• Greenpeace *
• Pro Natura *
• Bio Suisse
• Max Havelaar
• PUSCH
• SCNAT *
• Swisscleantech
• University of Basel *
• Pro Specie Rara *
• WSL *
• Öbu
• Natural History Museum Basel
• Foundation for Landscape Protection Switzerland *
• Swiss Family Gardeners Association
• World Resources Forum
• eawag
• Birdlife *
• Swiss Ornithological Institute Sempach *
• Zoo Switzerland *
• Canton of Basel-Stadt *
• Canton of Basel-Land *
• Federal Office for the Environment *
• Federal Office for Spatial Development
• Federal Office for Agriculture *

activities

The central element of eco.ch are the annual public events on various sustainability topics. The eco.naturkongress has taken place annually since the association was founded ten years ago . The eco.festival and the award ceremony for the Swiss sustainability prizes (formerly prix eco.swisscanto awarded at the eco.gala ) also take place every year.

In 2015, the campaign “What would I be more with less?” Was launched on the occasion of the annual theme of sufficiency .

eco.naturkongress

The eco.naturkongress, the Swiss sustainability congress, has been held annually since 2006. The topics of the past 11 years were:

• 2017: Switzerland's moated castle in danger
• 2016: World food and Switzerland
• 2015: Good life with sufficiency versus waste
• 2014: More mobility thanks to less traffic
• 2013: Nature and culture - the future we want!
• 2012: Landscape in the field of tension between protection and use
• 2011: Nature and Consumption
• 2010: Biodiversity - Our Future
• 2009: The nature of energy - the energy of nature
• 2008: research, learn, act
• 2007: Growth in nature and economy
• 2006: The value of nature

eco.festival

The eco.festival (formerly NATUR fair ) is a public festival of sustainability. The NATUR trade fair took place during muba until 2014 , and the eco.festival has been taking place in downtown Basel since 2015 .

Swiss sustainability award - prix eco.ch

The Swiss sustainability award , prix eco.ch (formerly prix eco.swisscanto or prix NATURE swisscanto ), has been awarded in two categories since 2010 and in three categories since 2011. The categories are Grand Prize, Hope and Generation Future.

Laureate main prize

• 1st place: Eawag project "Gravit'eau", 2nd place: "AquAero", 3rd place: " Viva con Agua "
• Myclimate climate protection foundation
• Anton Gunzinger, professor at ETH Zurich and founder of Supercomputing Systems AG
• Patrick Hohmann , founder and CEO of Remei
• Mathis Wackernagel , Global Footprint Network
• Urs Niggli , Director of the Research Institute for Organic Agriculture FiBL
• Tobias Meier, Helvetas

Winners of hope

• Ernst Bromeis , water ambassador and extreme swimmer
• Rebecca Clopath, Natural Cook (2016)
• Sina , singer (2015)
• Steff La Cheffe , Swiss rapper (2014)
• Endo Anaconda , Stiller Haas (2013)
• Simone Niggli-Luder , orienteering world champion (2012)
• Stress , singer / rapper (2011)
• Bertrand Piccard , solar pioneer (2010)

Generation Future Award Winners:

• Audric de Campeau, CitizenBees (2015)
• Stephan Sigg , children's book author (2014)
• weAct (2013)
• Nicolas Ecabert, EcaVert (2012)
• Roman Gaus, Urban Farmers (2011)
• Andreas Wirz, Solafrica (2010)

Web links

• Eco.ch website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Guiding principles of the eco.ch association. Retrieved June 20, 2017 . 
2. ↑ sponsorship - eco.ch . In: eco.ch . ( eco.ch [accessed on October 14, 2016]).
3. ↑ eco.ch at a glance | Biodiversity Forum. (No longer available online.) In: www.naturwissenschaften.ch. Archived from the original on October 18, 2016 ; accessed on October 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Refraining from consumption, slowing down, or throwing off ballast? Sufficiency is behavioral change as a means of protecting the environment. In: oralab development through each other. Retrieved October 14, 2016 . 
5. ^ Daniela Gschweng: Sustainability? It's very easy, the Ecofestival shows . In: day week . ( tageswoche.ch [accessed on October 14, 2016]).
6. ↑ eco.gala: Singer Sina wins Swiss sustainability award. fricktal.info, March 8, 2015, accessed on January 14, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Several startups nominated for the Swiss sustainability award prix eco.swisscanto Startupticker.ch | The Swiss Startup News channel. In: www.startupticker.ch. Retrieved October 14, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Marc Zimmermann (eco.ch): What would I be more with less? In: bionetz.ch . ( bionetz.ch [accessed on October 14, 2016]).
9. ↑ 12th eco.naturkongress. (PDF) Retrieved June 20, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Landesschau aktuell BW: broadcast 7.30 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg | News. In: swr.online. Accessed October 14, 2016 (German). 
11. ↑ Biovision: eco.naturkongress 2015. In: www.biovision.ch. Retrieved October 14, 2016 . 
12. ↑ eco.naturkongress 2014 in Basel. maxhavelaar.ch, January 20, 2014, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 4, 2016 . 
13. ↑ 8th NATUR Congress in Basel with sustainability as the central theme - wettstein21 - for an innovative quarter. Sustainability, energy efficiency, solar energy, quality of life in Basel. In: wettstein21.ch. Retrieved October 14, 2016 . 
14. ↑ - 7th NATUR Congress on April 13, 2012 in Basel. In: metron.ch. Retrieved October 14, 2016 . 
15. ↑ myclimate foundation: myclimate at the 2011 NATUR Congress . In: myclimate foundation . ( myclimate.org [accessed October 14, 2016]).
16. ↑ Conclusion of the NATUR Congress ›naturschutz.ch . In: naturschutz.ch . ( naturschutz.ch [accessed on October 14, 2016]).
17. ↑ Nature Congress 2009 | Lake Constance Foundation. (No longer available online.) In: www.bodensee-stiftung.org. Archived from the original on October 18, 2016 ; accessed on October 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
18. ^ Federal Office for the Environment FOEN: NATUR Congress 3/08 with Pascal Couchepin, Wangari Muta Maathai and Jane Goodall - Federal Office for the Environment FOEN. In: www.bafu.admin.ch. Retrieved October 14, 2016 . 
19. ↑ The value of nature - summit meeting for NATURE adopts manifesto: "Before a renaissance of nature and environmental policy" . In: presseportal.ch . ( presseportal.ch [accessed on October 14, 2016]).
20. ↑ WHAT'S ON - 03/28/2015, 5:00 p.m. In: www.telebasel.ch. Retrieved October 14, 2016 . 
21. ↑ Gravit'eau receives prix eco.ch for sustainable water treatment. (PDF) March 31, 2017, accessed June 20, 2017 . 
22. ↑ Many ideas about sustainable behavior: When Basel shows its green side . In: bz Basellandschaftliche Zeitung . ( basellandschaftlichezeitung.ch [accessed on October 14, 2016]).
23. ↑ Awarding of the prix eco.swisscanto - the Swiss sustainability award. Retrieved October 14, 2016 . 
24. ↑ Excellent sustainability - Coop newspaper - the largest weekly newspaper in Switzerland. In: www.coopzeitung.ch. Retrieved October 14, 2016 . 
25. ↑ ^{a b c} Blick: Sustainability Award: Prix NATURE to Mathis Wackernagel for “ecological footprint” - Blick . ( blick.ch [accessed on October 14, 2016]).
26. ↑ ^{a b c} Winners of the “Prix NATURE Swisscanto” have been determined - the main prize goes to FiBL. fricktal.info, April 14, 2012, accessed on October 14, 2016 . 
27. ↑ Helvetas wins Prix NATURE 2011 - Swiss Fair Trade. (No longer available online.) In: www.swissfairtrade.ch. Archived from the original on October 18, 2016 ; accessed on October 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
28. ↑ Ernst Bromeis wins Swiss sustainability award. March 14, 2017. Retrieved June 20, 2017 . 
29. ↑ Video: Sustainability to bite into. In: Play SRF. Retrieved October 14, 2016 . 
30. ↑ Awarding of the prix eco.swisscanto - the Swiss sustainability award. Retrieved October 14, 2016 . 
31. ↑ Rapper Steff la Cheffe receives sustainability award . In: az Aargauer Zeitung . ( aargauerzeitung.ch [accessed on October 14, 2016]).
32. ^ Solar pioneer Bertrand Piccard first winner of the "Prix Nature" . In: az Aargauer Zeitung . ( aargauerzeitung.ch [accessed on October 14, 2016]).
33. ↑ Awarding of the prix eco.swisscanto - the Swiss sustainability award. Retrieved October 14, 2016 . 
34. ↑ kipa lorm: St. Gallen author Stephan Sigg excellent. In: Swiss Radio and Television (SRF). February 23, 2014, accessed October 14, 2016 . 
35. ↑ Blick: Sustainability Award: Prix NATURE to Mathis Wackernagel for “ecological footprint” - Blick . ( blick.ch [accessed on October 14, 2016]).
36. ↑ The first prize for sustainability in the "Prix Nature" goes to Andres Wirz from solafrica.ch from Bern . In: presseportal.ch . ( presseportal.ch [accessed on October 14, 2016]).