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Right Livelihood Award

“Right Livelihood Awards” for the genuine fighters of this world

10. December 2019
Stockholm, Berlin, Zurich and Geneva – this year, a busy itinerary was in store for the latest laureates of the Right Livelihood Awards, also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”. Not all of them could take part, however − our Chinese laureate Guo Jianmei was missing, as was Greta Thunberg…
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Dancing performance at Sekem's Spring Festival

The Sekem project – sustainability in unstable times

16. April 2019
A few years ago, Helmy Abouleish, the manager of Sekem, visited the Cradle to Cradle Congress in Germany. He was convinced that the path his father had chosen for the project was the right one, and that the development it had undergone since 1977 was ample proof for that.
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Gruppenbild des Vorstands der Right Livelihood Award Stiftung mit Daniel Ellsberg und Paul Walker.

The whistle-blower from 1969

21. February 2019
At this year’s first board meeting of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation (“Alternative Nobel Prize”), we “young people” were able to benefit from the extensive experiences of Daniel Ellsberg, a person who had already acted as a whistle-blower by the late 1960s −
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“Alternative Nobel Prize” winners on tour

8. February 2018
The Right Livelihood Award (also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”) is intended to allow its laureates to make new investments in their projects as well as to provide them with personal support, protection and increased publicity for their causes.
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Right Livelihood Awards 2017

Right Livelihood Awards Honour Inspiring Changemakers and Champions of Justice

2. October 2017
Press release The Laureates of this year’s Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’, have been announced lately in Stockholm, Sweden.
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And the award (quite literally) goes to…

3. May 2017
The winner of the most recent Right Livelihood Award (“Alternative Nobel Prize”) was announced back in November 2016. However, as the laureate, Mozn Hassan, was not allowed to travel outside of her native Egypt she wasn’t able to participate in the awards ceremony in Stockholm.
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Environmental activists from around the world debate Cradle to Cradle

7. April 2017
At this year’s meeting of environmental award winners from all over the world in the southern German city of Freiburg, participants from Brazil, China, India and other countries showed a lot of interest in the Cradle to Cradle design concept.
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War without rules: Syria’s White Helmets between recognition and bitter reality

3. January 2017
As a way of sending out a message against the war in Syria the Right Livelihood Award Foundation this year gave one of its four Right Livelihood Awards – also often referred to as the Alternative Nobel Prizes – to the Syrian White Helmets.
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Raúl Montenegro leads eighth RLC Campus

29. June 2016
  It’s a forum of exchange for scientists and activists campaigning for human rights, the environment and social justice: the Right Livelihood Award Foundation (“Alternative Nobel Prize”) has recently inaugurated the eighth instalment of the Right Livelihood College (RLC)
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Make Nepal Green

27. February 2016
Because people are always stronger when they are united, several laureates of the Right Livelihood Award (RLA, “Alternative Nobel Prize”) recently gathered in Kathmandu (Nepal) for a two day seminar to support Shrikrishna Upadhyay of Sappros-Nepal and its partners.
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This year’s ‘Alternative Nobels’ announced

12. October 2015
Press Release Right Livelihood Award Foundation A Pacific island state foreign minister who has challenged the world’s nuclear powers through unprecedented legal action; an indigenous leader who fights to protect the Arctic in the face of climate change; an Ugandan human rights activist working against discrimination
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Strong women and solar energy for daily life

25. March 2015
The commitment and assertiveness of our Laureates – the recipients of the Right Livelihood Award – surprises me again and again. It is overwhelming to experience their confidence and power.
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Bangladesh on its way to a „solar nation“

4. July 2014
Listening to Dipal Chandra Barua might cause astonishment every time one hears him talk about his work and his vision: He wants Bangladesh to be the world’s first “solar nation”!
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Conference of those who „make the world better“

23. June 2014
„Regional Conference“ – this sounds small and manageable. Manageable it was indeed, but the regional conference of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation covered geographically the entire continent of Africa and the Middle East.
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„Working tirelessly to rid the world of chemical weapons“ – Paul Walker

9. April 2014
Yesterday evening, one of the world’s most respected experts on disarmament of chemical weapons – Paul Walker – was in Hamburg to give a lecture.
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November 4, 2020: Monika Griefahn moderates the online event “Environmental Management Summit” Hamburg


Germany’s Federal Environment Minister, Svenja Schulze. Photo: Max Arens

Germany’s Federal Environment Minister, Svenja Schulze. Photo: Max Arens

Pictures, videos and more from the Cradle to Cradle Congress January 31 – February 1, 2020 Berlin, Urania. Please read more here.


Laureates and guests. Photo: Wolfgang Schmidt

Laureates and guests. Photo: Wolfgang Schmidt

In 2019 the Right Livelihood Award was bestowed for the 40th time! Two laureates could come to Europe: Aminatou Haidar from Western Sahara and Davi Kopenawa from Brasil. Watch the entire video taken at the award ceremony, or read about this year’s laureates in our Blog.


 

After the award ceremony, Olaf Lies, Monika Griefahn and Rainer Rempe stand together. Photo: Frank Ossenbrink

After the award ceremony, Olaf Lies, Monika Griefahn and Rainer Rempe stand together. Photo: Frank Ossenbrink

Our CEO Dr. Monika Griefahn received the Federal Order of Merit. Please read more about her biography and about the award ceremony in our blog.


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