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Oracle Sustainability Awards

The Oracle Sustainability Awards celebrate customers who use Oracle solutions to weave sustainability into their operations, progress towards their own sustainability targets, and build a more sustainable future.

Review the rules for the Earthfirst Change Agents Awards here (PDF).

Review the rules for the Gaia Excellence Awards here (PDF).

Congratulations to our 2023 winners!

Oracle Sustainability Awards

The Oracle Sustainability Awards are presented to select customers who use Oracle technology to drive environmental initiatives as part of their business strategy. The awards have been an integral part of sustainability efforts at Oracle since 2008.

Whether your goal is to save energy, reduce emissions, minimize waste, or achieve another environment-focused objective, if you’re using an Oracle product to support your sustainability mission while reducing costs, we want to hear about it. For example, you might use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to reduce power consumption and space requirements by increasing utilization rates. Or you might use Oracle Cloud Applications to minimize environmental impacts, such as energy consumption and waste, during design, sourcing, planning, production, and distribution. If this sounds like you, your organization may be eligible to win an Oracle Sustainability Award.

The Earthfirst Award for Operational Excellence in Sustainability

This award is given to an organization using Oracle Cloud Applications—including industry-specific applications and analytics—to help drive their efforts toward a sustainable future.

Product	Example Oracle solutions	Example sustainability benefits
Oracle Cloud	Oracle Cloud Applications	Reducing power consumption (emissions) and space requirements by increasing utilization rates. Classifying and capturing emissions, energy factors, and greenhouse gases.
Oracle Enterprise Performance Management	Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud Service Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service	Providing metrics for fact-based environmental management. Integrating financial and sustainability reporting.
Oracle Supply Chain Management	Oracle Logistics Oracle Fusion Cloud Maintenance Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement Oracle Fusion Cloud Product Lifecycle Management	Minimizing environmental impacts, such as energy consumption and waste, during design, sourcing, planning, production, and distribution. Reducing risk by managing product environmental compliance. Supporting the circular economy. Tracking and reporting on environmental metrics.

The Gaia Award for Innovation in Sustainability

This award is given to an organization that uses Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and emerging technologies—including AI, big data, and the Internet of Things—to create a more sustainable future.

Product	Example Oracle solutions	Example sustainability benefits
Oracle Cloud	Oracle Cloud Applications	Driving down power consumption (emissions) and space requirements by increasing utilization rates.
Oracle Adaptive Intelligence	Oracle Adaptive Intelligence Apps for ERP	Optimizing business functions while minimizing waste and energy consumption.
Industry Solutions	Oracle Retail Oracle Utilities Opower Energy Efficiency Cloud Service	Reducing utility usage using customer programs and usage analytics.
Oracle Internet of Things	Oracle Internet of Things Asset Monitoring Cloud Service Oracle Internet of Things Fleet Monitoring Cloud Service	Optimizing asset utilization while minimizing energy use and emissions.
Platform	Oracle Big Data Oracle Blockchain Oracle Business Intelligence Oracle Data Visualization	Providing analytics to report on greenhouse gas emissions and other natural resources. Researching and optimizing natural systems. Tracking the provenance of goods to ensure they are responsibly sourced.

2023 Sustainability Award Winners

The Gaia Award and Earthfirst Award for Excellence in Sustainability Winners

Gaia Award for Excellence in Sustainability

Winner: Daloop

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Gaia Award for Excellence in Sustainability

Tackling the world’s most pressing challenges requires innovation.

Winner | Daloop

Finalists

NIBIO
SNCF
Martin Brower
Punch Torino

The Earthfirst Award for Excellence in Sustainability

Winner: Richard Oberg | Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)

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The Earthfirst Award for Excellence in Sustainability

The time is now to leverage information technology to act against climate change and its impacts. Organizations that weave sustainability into their operational business strategy are ensuring that they’re keeping both the planet and their bottom line in mind. This award goes to the organization using Oracle Cloud Applications—including industry-specific applications and analytics—to help drive its efforts towards a sustainable future.

Michael Burger | Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E)
Josh Perkes | Loup Logistics
Marcel Gnoth | Aida Cruises
Cindy Sutrisna | Link

Winner | Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)

Finalists

Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E)
Loup Logistics
Aida Cruises
Link

2021 Change Agents Sustainability Customer Awards

The Earthfirst Award for Excellence in Sustainability Winners

The Gaia Award for Excellence in Sustainability Winners

Congratulations to the 2021 Sustainability Winners

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2019 Sustainability Innovation Award Winners

During Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco there was much discussion of endless possibilities enabled by Oracle products. A wonderful exemplification of this is the Sustainability Innovation Awards where Oracle recognizes select customers for their use of Oracle technology to drive innovative sustainability initiatives. The awards recognize organizations for outstanding work to ensure that sustainability remains a fundamental tenet of enterprise social responsibility. Oracle is honored to congratulate each winner on their leadership and proud they have chosen Oracle technology to help power their cloud transformations.

These award-winning organizations are using many different Oracle products to take an environmental lead as well as to reduce costs and improve business efficiencies using green business practices. The top award winner, Southern California Gas Company, was awarded the 2019 Chief Sustainability Officer of the Year Award.

Winners hail from a wide range of industries and regions. Four of the winning customers chose to include a partner that helped support their sustainability initiatives. The winning nominations were selected by a panel of five judges. Three judges are from Oracle. The other two judges include Heli Helskyaho, CEO Miracle Finland Oy and Oracle ACE Director, and Joe Imbimbo, Oracle Applications DBA at PPG Industries and member of the Board Of Directors for the Oracle Applications Users Group.

The sustainability innovation award winning companies are:

The winner partners were:

2018 Sustainability Innovation Award Winners

The Oracle Excellence Awards is an annual program that recognizes an extraordinary set of customers and partners for exceptional use of Oracle solutions to accelerate innovation and drive business transformation and value by increasing agility, lowering costs, and reducing IT complexity. Each year, the winners are chosen from hundreds of nominations that come in from across the globe. Oracle is honored to congratulate each winner on their leadership and proud they have chosen Oracle technology to help power their cloud transformations.

One of the Oracle Excellence Awards is the Oracle Sustainability Innovation Award. This is presented to select customers and their partners that are embracing environmental initiatives as a central part of their businesses and leveraging technology to support those efforts. These award-winning organizations are using many different Oracle products to take an environmental lead as well as to reduce costs and improve business efficiencies using green business practices. The top award winner, City of San Jose, was awarded the 2018 Chief Sustainability Officer of the Year Award.

“Our customers and partners continue to display unprecedented creativity in building successful, sustainable organizations,” said Jon Chorley, Chief Sustainability Officer and Vice President of SCM Product Strategy, Oracle. “At this year’s Oracle Sustainability Innovation Awards, we honored these customers for showcasing unique ways to increase eco-innovation while also reducing costs and improving organizational performance using Oracle technologies.”

Winners hail from a wide range of industries and regions. Two of the winning customers chose to include a partner who helped support their sustainability initiatives. The winning nominations were selected by a panel of 5 judges. 3 judges are from Oracle. The other 2 judges include Heli Helskyaho, CEO Miracle Finland Oy and Oracle ACE Director, and Joe Imbimbo, Oracle Applications DBA at PPG Industries and member of the Board Of Directors for the Oracle Applications Users Group.

The sustainability innovation award winning companies are:

The winning partners were:

2017 Sustainability Innovation Award Winners

Jeff Henley, Oracle Executive Vice Chairman of the Board, and Jon Chorley, Oracle Chief Sustainability Officer, presented the 2017 Oracle Sustainability Innovation Awards to select customers at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. This award recognizes the innovative use of Oracle technology to address global sustainability business challenges. This year’s award winners demonstrated unique ways to reduce costs and improve business efficiencies through innovative green practices using Oracle technology.

“The Oracle Sustainability Innovation Awards are about honoring customers who are committed to making environmental issues a priority across the enterprise,” said Jon Chorley, Chief Sustainability Officer and Vice President of Product Strategy, Oracle. “This year’s award winners showcased unique ways to reduce costs and improve business efficiencies through innovative green practices. We are thrilled to support their eco-transformation and sustainability success.”

The top nominee, Michelle Ackmann, Manager of the Residential Energy Efficiency Program at ComEd, was the recipient of Oracle’s 2017 Chief Sustainability Officer of the Year award. Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) is a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation, a publicly traded energy utility. ComEd delivers electric service to 3.8 million customers across 11,400 square miles of northern Illinois. ComEd is committed to protecting the environment, and it continually assesses everything it does to discover new ways to be more efficient and environmentally responsible.

Winners hail from a wide range of industries and regions. Several of the winning customers chose to include a partner who helped support their sustainability initiatives. The winning nominations were selected by a panel of 5 judges. 3 judges are from Oracle. The other 2 judges include Heli Helskyaho, CEO Miracle Finland Oy and Oracle ACE Director, and Susan Kolodziejczyk, Senior Manager of Sustainability at National Geographic.

See more details about each of the award winners.

The sustainability innovation award winning companies are:

The winning partners were:

About the awards

The Earthfirst Award for Excellence in Sustainability Winners

Now is the time to use information technology to act against climate change. Organizations that weave sustainability into their operational business strategy ensure that they make decisions with both the planet and profitability in mind. This award is given to an organization that uses Oracle Cloud Applications—including industry-specific applications and analytics—to help drive its efforts toward a sustainable future.

The Gaia Award for Excellence in Sustainability Winners

Tackling the world’s most pressing challenges requires innovation. This award is given to an organization that not only keeps the planet in mind when making business decisions but also uses Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and emerging technologies—including AI, big data, and the Internet of Things—to effect positive change and create a more sustainable future for generations to come.

About the winners

Winners will be selected based on the extent of their environmental impact as well as the business efficiencies they have achieved using Oracle products.

Eligibility criteria

Your company must use at least one Oracle product or solution to support sustainability initiatives while reducing costs and improving efficiency. Take a look at this partial list for a few examples of how you might use Oracle products to be eligible for these awards.

Your sustainability initiative should be in progress or in active development.

Recognition for award winners

Prizes and recognition for the 2023 Sustainability Awards are in line with the prizes and recognition from the Oracle Change Agents and Excellence awards.

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