"One World Award" - Design Globalization Positive - The Finalists
05/06/2008 09:32
PR Newswire
LEGAU, Germany, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --
- Germany/ Ethiopia /India /Sri Lanka/ Taiwan/ Turkey. The Finalists of
the First, International "One World Award" Have Been Announced. The Visit of
the Five Selected Projects has Confirmed That the Activities of the Prize
Winners Agree to the Aims of the "One World Award"
The five finalists of the "One World Award" 2008 carry their parts with
extraordinary engagement and have all shown commitment to showing that the
future of globalization is positive. The finalists are:
Harald Schützeichel, he started the foundation for solar energy in
Ethiopia in 2004 with the aim of supplying the rural population of Africa
with energy. He is consistently trying "to help people help themselves" by
creating jobs to promote economic development and education.
Anil Rana, he started the Janhit foundation in India in 1988,
with the aim of providing cleaner drinking water and fighting water
pollution. He also started an ecological cultivation program in 2002 to make
a contribution to bio diversity.
Lal Emmanuel, he started the Nagenahiru foundation in Sri
Lanka in 1991, to campaign for the protection and the reforestation of
Mangrove woods. To this day, about 15 hectares have been forested. He has
also set up a teaching and training center, to educate teenagers about
ecological issues.
Master Sheng Lyun, he started the Fo Fa Shan foundation in Taiwan in
1995. Using ecological methods tea, vegetables and other agricultural
products are cultivated on about 45 hactares of land. The aims of the
foundation are the promotion of ecological farming, ecology and conservation,
as well as cultural education.
Victor Ananias, he opened his first bio store in Turkey about ten years
ago and founded the organization Bugday to support the development of
ecological farming and environmental protection.
The winner of this exciting competition will receive the first, hand
manufactured "One World Award"-statue and prize money of 25,000 euros. The
jury members are: Joseph Wilhelm, two previous Nobel Prize winners Vandana
Shiva from India and Tewolde Egzeabher from Ethiopia, and the IFOAM
vice-president Alberto Pipo Lernoud from Argentina. The winner will be
announced on June 19th, 2008 at the world convention of the International
Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) in Modena (Italy).
More information: http://www.one-world-award.com
"One World Award"
c/o RAPUNZEL NATURKOST AG
Heike Kirsten
phone +49(0)8330-529-1134
e-mail heike.kirsten@rapunzel.de
"One World Award" c/o RAPUNZEL NATURKOST AG, Heike Kirsten, phone +49(0)8330-529-1134, e-mail heike.kirsten@rapunzel.de
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