Energy Globe Award Environmental prize for insecticide manufacturer
The global environmental "Energy Globe Award" will be presented in Switzerland on September 12, 2019 to the insecticide manufacturer Reckhaus for its Insect Respect project. Triggered by the confrontation and collaboration with Swiss conceptual artists Frank and Patrik Riklin and their supposedly absurd art action "Saving flies in Deppendorf", Reckhaus has been transforming its business model with Insect Respect since 2012.
The Energy Globe Award Environmental Prize goes to the biocide manufacturer Reckhaus! However, this company has recognized the urgency of insect mortality and the value of the six-legged creatures and is therefore striving for a new way of dealing with insects. Trigger for the company change and the worldwide unique compensation model was the dialogue and the cooperation of several months with the Swiss concept artists Frank and Patrik Riklin.
In 2011, they confronted Dr. Hans-Dietrich Reckhaus with the question: How much value does a fly have for you as an insect killer? Their demand: Save instead of kill. The resulting counter-strategy led to a transformation process and the development of "Insect Respect".
The highlight was the joint art action "Saving flies in Deppendorf" (2012), which mobilized an entire village and took a housefly on a wellness vacation to Schloss Elmau with the world's first flight ticket for an insect.
What began in 2011 in St. Gallen in the studio for special tasks of the concept artists Frank and Patrik Riklin and caused a sensation in 2012 with the supposedly absurd art action "Saving flies in Deppendorf" now leads years later to the Energy Globe Award:
Energy Globe Award
Every year, more than 187 countries and over 2,000 projects compete for the world-renowned Energy Globe Award. It honors regional, national and global projects that conserve resources and energy. The goal is to create worldwide awareness for sustainable, universally applicable ecological solutions and to activate people to do something themselves.
About Insect Respect
Insect Respect is the world's first quality mark for a new understanding of insect management. According to the principle "Reduce - Ecologize - Compensate insect control", society and the economy are sensitized to the value of insects and insect-friendly habitats are created. With Insect Respect, family entrepreneur Dr. Hans-Dietrich Reckhaus strives for a sustainable transformation of the biocide industry and inspires entrepreneurs in other industries to promote insects and biodiversity. In 2014, he received the German Mastermind Award for this, in 2015 the Swiss Ethics Award, in 2017 the Bertelsmann Foundation's "My Good Example" award, and in 2019 the WirtschaftsWoche "Entrepreneurial Heart" award. www.insect-respect.org
