"One World Award" - Design Globalization Positive - The Finalists
LEGAU, June 10 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
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 agreed with 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 Schutzeichel, 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 causing by RAPUNZEL NATURKOST AG. The jury members
are: Joseph Wilhelm, founder of RAPUNZEL NATURKOST AG, 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.
"One World Award"
c/o RAPUNZEL NATURKOST AG
Heike Kirsten
phone +49(0)8330-529-1134
e-mail heike.kirsten@rapunzel.de
Source: One World Award c/o RAPUNZEL NATURKOST AG
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