World Technology Award for Design and Fellow, The World Technology Network, October 8th, 2004

Environmental Trailblazer, Interior & Sources magazine, 2004

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, U.S. EPA, 2003

Design Sense Award for Climatex©Lifecycle™, Design Museum, London, 2000

German Environmental Management Association (BAUM e.V.), Environmental Award for Sustainability in Germany, 1999

Heinz Endowment recipient, 1995 – 1999

Utne Visionary Award, 1995

Tox Center, Munich, Environmental Award, 1994

Océ-van der Grinten Award, 1993

W. Alton Jones Foundation Fellow, 1993

Schweisfurth Foundation, Research Award for Ecological Economics, 1992

John J. McCloy Fellowship, 1988

German Marshall Fund Scholarship, 1987

Unilever Research Fellowship, 1980