Earth-friendly Essay and Activity Report Contest

From the desire to give children the opportunity to consider the future of Earth's environment, the "Earth-friendly Essay/Activity Report Contest" was implemented.
Around the theme of "What each one of us can do for the environment," works such as essays, activity reports, and posters on environmental conservation were encouraged, with the most excellent works receiving awards.

In the awards for 2014, submissions were accepted from May 30th to September 30th, receiving 21,470 works in Japan. After reviewing by the selection committee made up mainly of experts, 139 works received prizes. AEON Environmental Foundation Award (School Award) was awarded to a particularly outstanding school that had made ten or more submissions.

AEON Environmental Foundation Award (School Award)

Osaka
Suita Municipal Minamiyamada Elementary School

2014 Winner (extract)

Essays, Activity Reports

Prime Minister's Award
Aichi
Kazuhiko Yamada (67 years old)
Environment Minister's Award
Tokyo
Yoshihiro Koyama (tenth grader)

Education, Culture, Sports, Science andTechnology Minister's Award
Saitama
Niko Yamashita (first grader)
Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister's Award
Chiba
Aiko Kuribayashi (seventh grader)

Designs, Comics, Posters

Environment Minister's Award
Kagoshima
Shiho Mizoguchi (fourth grader)

Environment Minister's Award
Wakayama
Yui Sakaki (ninth grader)

AEON Environmental Foundation Prize (school division)

Hyogo Prefecture Himeji City Hayashida Elementary School
Hokkaido Sapporo City Aoba Junior High School
Tokyo Tokyo University of Agriculture Daiichi High School

Tokyo Keio Chutobu Junior High School
Saitama Prefecture Saitama Sakae Junior High School