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Ashoka Fellow Ishita Khanna's Oragnization Receives Sierra Club's inaugural Green Energy & Green Livelihoods Achievement Award
June 9, 2009 Ashoka Fellow Ishita Khanna's organization Ecosphere Spiti has won Sierra Club's inaugural Green Energy & Green Livelihoods Achievement Award” in India for 2009. This new award recognizes community initiatives to promote green economic development, adaptation of renewable energy alternatives and organizational leadership in a grassroots environmental campaign.
Ecosphere Spiti shares this with Barefoot College and the two organizations have won 100,000 USD between them.
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Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak Awarded 2009 Stockholm Water Prize
August 1, 2009 Founder of the Sulabh International Social Service Organisation, Dr. Pathak is known as a sanitation innovator. He is applauded for the socio-environmental results of his work.
*Image credit: Sulabh International Social Service Organisation
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Ashoka-Lemelson Fellow David Kuria is named Schwab African Entrepreneur of the Year
June 10, 2009 David Kuria, Kenyan Ashoka-Lemelson Fellow and CEO of Ecotact, is among the winners of The Schwab Foundation’s Africa Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award for 2009. Along with the winners from several African countries, as well as from Europe and Latin America, David was presented with the award at the World Economic Forum on June 10th 2009 in the presence of Jacob Zuma (President of South Africa); Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997-2006); Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director of the World Bank; and the distinguished guests and participants of the World Economic Forum.
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Ashoka Fellow Darin Gunesekera Recognized by UN-HABITAT
June 4, 2009 Sri Lanka Fellow Darin Gunesekera was recognized by an international jury as a good practice by the first HABITAT business awards. His Social Real Estate Investment Trust by Wiros Lokh Institute (Trust) is offering slum dwellers the opportunity to trade in the land they occupy and then choose from new apartments available, making them proud and responsible homeowners.
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Ashoka Fellow Yuyun Ismawati Recieves Goldman Environmental Prize
April 19, 2009 Ashoka Fellow Yuyun Ismawati received the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her innovative work with communities to manage solid waste in a way which benefits the local people, businesses, and the tourist industry. As waste management problems mount throughout the Indonesian archipelago, Yuyun is developing a viable model of community-based solid waste management that both halts environmental degradation caused by improper practices and provides a practical, replicable plan. The world’s largest honor of its kind and now in its 20th year, the Goldman Prize annually awards US$150,000 to environmental heroes from each of the world’s six inhabited continents. For the last three years, the Goldman Prize has chosen Ashoka Fellows for the award, recognizing how forces of entrepreneurship and innovation are creatively and profoundly transforming our relationship with the natural environment: recent Ashoka Fellow prize recipients: Yuyun Ismawati in 2009, Ignace Schops in 2008, and Orri Vigfusson in 2007.
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Ashoka Fellow Named 2009 Technology Pioneer
January 1, 2009 Ashoka Fellow Dr. Joseph Adelegan has been elected as a Technology Pioneer for 2009.
This award, given by the World Economic Forum, is granted to companies for their level of innovation and the impact they will have on the citizen sector. Joseph's Cows to Kilowatts biogas plant has been selected for its environmentally friendly, commercially viable, and easily replicable model.
To learn more about how Joseph's model is turning slaughterhouse waste into cooking fuel read his full profile.
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Ashoka Fellow Hany El Miniawy Wins 2008 Tech Museum Award
November 12, 2008 Egypt Fellow Hany El Miniawy has been recognized by The Tech Museum for his use of architecture and planning technology to benefit humanity. In collaboration with local master builders, Miniawy uses his appropriate technologies, combined with local architectural heritage, to teach young people to build safe, inexpensive homes in their own communities.
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Ashoka Spain wins Emilio Barbón Award
November 1, 2008
Maria Zapata accepted the fifth annual Emilio Barbón prize in Madrid on behalf of Ashoka Spain. Named after a noted Spanish politician and jurist, the Emilio Barbón Foundation honors one person, entity or organization each year that distinguishes itself in the area of social concern.
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Ashoka Fellow Silverius Oscar Unggul wins Conde Nast Traveler Award
September 24, 2008
Indonesia Fellow Silverius Oscal Unggul has been recognized as the the 2008 Conde Nast Traveler World Saver for his work promoting a sustainable, community-run alternative to state-owned forest management. Silverius’ village-administered “eco-label” timber enterprise model gives communities a sense of ownership over these valued resources, leading to environmentally and economically sustainable timber harvesting while reducing commercial logging degradation.
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Bill Drayton Named Top Social Innovator
September 23, 2008
Americans for Informed Democracy named Ashoka Founder and CEO Bill Drayton as their Innovator in Smart Investing for 2008. The Social Innovator Awards celebrates leaders who are taking entrepreneurial approaches toward social change and thereby making our world a better, safer place.