- Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva (b. November 5, 1952, Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India), is a physicist, ecofeminist, environmental activist and author. Shiva, currently based in New Delhi, is author of over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals.<br /> Shiva participated in the nonviolent Chipko movement during the 1970s. The movement, whose main participants were women, adopted the tactic of hugging trees to prevent their felling. - Walden Bello
Walden Bello (born 1945) is a left-wing author, academic, and political analyst. He is a professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the Philippines, as well as executive director of Focus on the Global South. Born in Manila, Philippines, he became a political activist following the declaration of Martial Law by Ferdinand Marcos on September 21, 1972. - Maude Barlow
Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians, Canada's largest citizen's advocacy organization as well as the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works to stop commodification of the world's water. She is also a Director with the International Forum on Globalization, a San Francisco based research and education institution opposed to economic globalization. - Tony Clarke
Tony Clarke is a Canadian activist. Born in 1944, he grew up in Chilliwack, British Columbia, graduating from Chilliwack Senior Secondary School in 1962. He was class president. He studied at the University of British Columbia and did graduate work at the University of Chicago, obtaining a PhD in the history of religion. - Helena Norberg-Hodge
Helena Norberg Hodge is the founder and director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture, a non-profit organisation concerned with the protection of both biological and cultural diversity, and education for action: moving beyond single issues to look at the more fundamental influences that shape our lives. ISEC runs programs on four continents aimed at strengthening ecological diversity and community, with a particular emphasis on local food and farming. - Johan Galtung
Johan Galtung (born October 24, 1930, in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian professor, founder and co-director of TRANSCEND - A Peace and Development Network for Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means. He is seen as the pioneer of peace and conflict research and founded the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO) in Oslo. He is also one of the authors of an influential account of news values, the factors which determine coverage given to a given topic in the news media. - Medha Patkar
Medha Patkar is a social activist from India. - Sulak Sivaraksa
Sulak Sivaraksa is founder and director of the Thai NGO "Sathirakoses-Nagapradeepa Foundation“. Besides being the initator of a number of social, humanitarian, ecological and spiritual movements and organizations in Thailand, like the College SEM (Spirit in Education Movement) Sulak Sivaraksa is known in the West as one of the fathers of INEB (International Network of Engaged Buddhists), which, in 1987 was established by leading Buddhists like the 14th Dalai Lama, … - Nicanor Perlas
Nicanor Perlas is President, Center for Alternative Development Initiatives (www.cadi.ph), a think tank and technical assistance group based in Metro Manila, Philippines. He is also Co-Founder and Training Facilitator of PAG-ASA, a national spiritual-cultural movement active in creating a better Philippines. He chairs the Board of Directors of Lifebank, which together with Lifebank Foundation, … - Daniel Ellsberg
In the 1960s, Ellsberg was a strategic analyst at the RAND Corporation, then a consultant to the Defense Department and the White House. He worked on the Top Secret McNamara study of U.S Decision-making in Vietnam. In 1969, he photocopied the 7,000 page study of Vietnam for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and gave a copy to The New York Times. - Anwar Fazal
Anwar Fazal (b. 15 July 1941 in Sungei Bayor, Selama, Malaysia) is a grassroots environmental activist. He was trained at the University of Malaya in Economics and Education. "Fazal is probably the most influential figure in the worldwide consumer movement, a 'whole earth' coalition of citizens dedicated to helping protect the health of our babies and our bodies, and the conditions of our air, water, and land." Source - George Vithoulkas
George Vithoulkas (born 1932 in Athens, Greece) has been an international teacher of classical homeopathy for over 30 years. In 1996, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for his work in the field of classical homeopathy. Vithoulkas began studying homeopathy in South Africa in 1960 and then continued studying at various Indian homeopathic colleges. In 1966, he received a diploma of the Indian Institute of Homeopathy. Upon his return to Greece the following year, … - Petra Kelly
Petra Karin Kelly, a politician, was instrumental in founding the German Green Party, the first Green party to rise to prominence worldwide. Kelly was born in Günzburg, Bavaria, West Germany in 1947 with the name Petra Karin Lehmann. She changed her name to Kelly after her mother married her step-father, an American Army officer. - Ruth Manorama
Ruth Manorama(1964) is widely known in India for her contributions in mainstreaming Dalit issues, especially the precarious situation of Dalit women in India. Ruth, herself from the Dalit community, calls the women "Dalits among the Dalits". This has highlighted the plight of Dalit women in the community and the media. Ruth has also contributed enormously to breaking the upper-class, upper-caste image of the women's movement in India. - Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher
Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher (born 1940) is an Ethiopian who won the Right Livelihood Award in 2000 "for his exemplary work to safeguard biodiversity and the traditional rights of farmers and communities to their genetic resources." Tewolde Berhan graduated in 1963 from Addis Ababa University and received his doctorate from the University of Wales in 1969. He returned to Addis Ababa University where he served as Dean of the Faculty of Science (1974-78). - Edward Goldsmith
Edward ('Teddy') Goldsmith (born 1928 in Paris, France) is an Anglo-French environmentalist and eco-philosopher. The eldest son of Major Frank Goldsmith, and elder brother of billionaire Sir James Goldsmith, Edward Goldsmith was the editor of The Ecologist magazine from its foundation in 1969 until 1990, and then again from 1997 until 1998. He has now been succeeded by his nephew Zac Goldsmith. Goldsmith is particularly well known for his anti-industrial, rural beliefs, … - Asghar Ali Engineer
Asghar Ali Engineer is a Muslim scholar and engineer. Internationally he is known for his work on liberation theology in Islam, the leader of the Progressive Dawoodi Bohra movement, and his work on (and action against) communalism and communal and ethnic violence in India and South East Asia. He is an advocate of a culture of peace and non-violence. Asghar Ali Engineer was born 10 March 1939 in Salumbar, Rajasthan, India as the son of a Bohra priest. - Amory Lovins
Amory Bloch Lovins is a "consultant experimental physicist" with an MA in physics from Oxford. He is Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient (1994), and author and co-author of books which make arguments for and popularize energy-efficiency principles to public and corporate audiences. Lovins' works include "Winning the Oil Endgame", "Factor Four" with Hunter Lovins and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, … - Wangari Maathai
Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai born April 1, 1940 in Ihithe village, Tetu division, Nyeri District of Kenya is an environmental and political activist. In 2004 she became the first African woman to receive Nobel Peace Prize for "her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace". Dr. - Leopold Kohr
Leopold Kohr (born October 5, 1909 in Austria/Oberndorf near Salzburg, died February 26, 1994 in Gloucester, England) was an economist, jurist, political scientist and a practicing philosopher. Kohr was a mastermind of the Green and Ecology movement. In 1983 he was given the Right Livelihood Award. - John Gofman
John W. Gofman (born September 21 1918) was the Group Co-Leader of the Plutonium Project, an offshoot of the Manhattan Project. From 1971 onward, he was the Chairman of the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility. He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for his work in exposing the effects of the Chernobyl disaster and low-level radiation on populations. - Frances Moore Lappé
Frances Moore Lappé is a noted social change and democracy activist, and the author of 15 books, including the three-million-copy bestseller, "Diet for a Small Planet" (originally published in 1971). - Irene Fernandez
Irene Fernandez (*1946) is the director and co-founder of the non-governmental organization Tenaganita, which promotes the rights of migrant workers and other oppressed and poor people in Malaysia. They had been given the promise of getting support for their families at home by the rich, but instead, they got cheated and had to suffer malnutrition, torture and sexual abuse. In 1995, Irene Fernandez published a report on the living conditions of the migrant workers. - Wes Jackson
Wes Jackson is president of The Land Institute, an innovative research and educational organization dedicated to the search for principles of ecological agriculture. By studying and mimicking the functions of natural systems, The Land Institute seeks to develop agricultural practices that are productive over the long term, economical, and ecologically responsible. - Munir Said Thalib
Munir Said Thalib (December 8, 1965 - September 7, 2004), affectionately known simply as 'Munir', was Indonesia's most famous Human Rights and anti-corruption activist. The founder of the Kontras human rights organisation and laureate of the Right Livelihood Award, Munir was assassinated in 2004 while travelling to Utrecht University to pursue a Master's degree in international law and human rights - Alice Stewart
Dr Alice Mary Stewart ( 4 October 1906, Sheffield, England to 23 June 2002, Oxford, England) was a physician and epidemiologist specialising in social medicine and the effects of radiation on health. Her pioneering study of x-rays as a cause of childhood cancer, which she worked on from 1953 until 1956 as a member of the department of social and preventive medicine at Oxford University Medical School, was initially regarded as unsound, … - Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren was a Swedish children's book author and screenwriter, whose many titles were translated into 85 languages and published in more than 100 countries. She wrote the Pippi Longstocking books. - Bill Mollison
Bill Mollison (born 1928 in Tasmania, Australia) is a researcher, author, scientist, teacher, naturalist and has been called the 'father of permaculture', an integrated system of design co-developed with David Holmgren that encompasses not only agriculture, horticulture, architecture and ecology but also economic systems, land access strategies and legal systems for businesses and communities. He received the Right Livelihood Award in 1981 with Patrick van Rensburg. - Leonardo Boff
Leonardo Boff was born 14 December 1938 in Concórdia, Santa Catarina state, Brazil. He is a theologian, philosopher and writer, known for his active support for the rights of the poor and excluded. He currently serves as Professor Emeritus of Ethics, Philosophy of Religion and Ecology at the University of Rio de Janeiro. - Katarina Kruhonja
Katarina Kruhonja (born 1949) is a peace activist from Osijek, eastern Croatia. She is a director of the Centre for Peace, Non-violence and Human Rights, an NGO based in Osijek, set up with the support of Adam Curle. In 1998, she was joint recipient of the Right Livelihood Award along with Vesna Terselic of the Anti-War Campaign of Croatia. - Hans-Peter Dürr
Hans-Peter Dürr, German physicist, is a quintessential transdisciplinarian. In addition to nuclear and quantum physics, elementary particles and gravitation, epistemology, and philosophy, he has advocated for responsible scientific and energy policies. - Ken Saro-Wiwa
Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro-Wiwa (October 10, 1941 - November 10, 1995) was a Nigerian author, television producer, and environmentalist. He was the son of Chief Jim Wiwa. Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority whose homelands in the Niger Delta have been targeted for oil extraction since the 1950s. Initially as spokesperson, and then as President, of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), … - Manfred Max-Neef
Manfred Max-Neef (b. October 26, 1932 in Valparaiso, Chile) is a Chilean economist and ecologist. Max-Neef started his career as a teacher of economics at the University of California, Berkeley in the early 1960s. He then travelled through Latin America and the United States, as a visiting Professor in various universities, as well as living with and researching the poor. In 1981, he wrote the book "From the Outside Looking In: Experiences in Barefoot Economics". - Mary Dann
Mary Dann (d. 22 April 2005) was a Native American activist. A member of the Western Shoshone tribe, Mary Dann and her sister Carrie Dann had been active in the movement to recover millions of acres of land that originally belonged to the Shoshone tribe. Much of this land, consisting of a large portion of Nevada and four other states, was seized as part of the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley. They were recipients of the Right Livelihood Award. - Mordechai Vanunu
The traitor "' (born Marrakech, Morocco, October 13 1954), also known by his baptismal name John Crossman"', is an Israeli former nuclear technician who revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently abducted in Rome by Israeli Mossad agents and smuggled to Israel, where he was tried in secret and convicted of treason. - Hassan Fathy
Hassan Fathy was a noted Egyptian architect who pioneered appropriate technology for building in Egypt, especially by working to re-establish the use of mud brick (or adobe). Fathy trained as an architect in Egypt, graduating in 1926 from the University of King Fuad I (now the University of Cairo). He designed his first mud brick buildings in the late 1930s. He held several government positions and was appointed head of the Architectural Section of the Faculty of Fine Arts, … - Felicia Langer
Felicia Langer (born 1930) is an Israeli human rights attorney known for her defense of Palestinians charged with political violations in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. She has also authored numerous books alleging human rights violations on the part of Israeli occupation authorities. Her books detail widespread torture of detainees, as well as routine violation of international law prohibiting deportation and collective punishment. - Joseph Ki-Zerbo
Joseph Ki-Zerbo was a Burkinabè historian and politician. Born in Toma, he studied at the Sorbonne and "Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)" and then became professor for history in Orléans and Paris. In 1957, Ki-Zerbo returned to Burkina Faso and became politically active. From 1972 to 1978 he was professor for African history at the University of Ouagadougou. In 1983, he was forced into exile - only being able to return in 1992. - Samuel Epstein
Doctor Samuel S. Epstein is a medical doctor and professor emeritus of environmental medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago who is perhaps best known for his contributions to environmental medicine, and his contributions towards cancer prevention. - David Lange
David Russell Lange CH, ONZ (4 August 1942 — 13 August, 2005), served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989. He headed New Zealand's fourth Labour Government, one of the most reforming administrations in his country's history, but one which did not always conform to traditional expectations of a social-democrat party. He had a reputation for cutting wit and eloquence.
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