Participants 2014

Debesai Ghebrehiwet

Africa Earth Keepers

I am Debesai Ghebrehiwet renewable energy specialist, Environmental partition-er, laureate and innovator of high efficient improved stoves , Energy Efficient Gas stove and brick designs and this year i am...            

Zenón Pofidio Gomel Apaza

Asociación Savia Andina Pukara (ASAP)

Zenón Pofidio Gomel Apaza, Peru, comes from a family of quechua farmers of the Koriñahui community in the Pukara district. His 17 years of schooling with an agronomy degree from Universidad Nacional del...            

Monika Griefahn

Right Livelihood Award Foundation / European Environment Foundation

Monika Griefahn is a founding member of Greenpeace Germany and was Co-CEO (1980-1983). From 1984-1990 she worked on the board of Greenpeace Internat. From 1990-1998 she was Minister of the Environment in the...            

Rainer Griesshammer

Rainer Grießhammer is a chemist, member of the management board of the Institute of Applied Ecology, Freiburg and director of the future heritage foundation (Stiftung Zukunftserbe). Leader of the research...            

Rafael Guarga

Rafael Guarga is a professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Uruguay and researcher at the Institute of Engineering of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He graduated as...            

Goran Gugić

GIZ/CIM, Institute for Nature Conservation in Albania

Managing Director, Lonjsko Polje Nature Park Public Institution Goran Gugić graduated from the Forestry Faculty of Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. He moved to Croatia despite of the war, and headed...            

Mathilde Halla

SENECA - Seniorennetzwerk contra Atom

Mathilde Halla, was a schoolteacher for mentally challenged children. In 1973 she joined a small activist organization in Austria and started campaigning against the nuclear power plant Zwentendorf. In 1986,...            

Hans Herren

Millennium Institute in Washington DC and Biovision Foundation

Hans Herren’s main interests and experience are in agriculture, food systems, ecologically, socially and economically sustainable development and cover research, capacity development and management of...            

Heike Hoedt

Solare Bruecke / Simply Solar

Since 1996 Heike Hoedt has been associated with Solare Bruecke e.V., a German non-profit organisation, which is developing and promoting technical know-how on Scheffler Reflectors and other solar thermal...            

Winfried Hoffmann

Applied Solar Expertise - ASE

Winfried Hoffmann is working in the PV industry since 1979. He was CEO of the company ASE (Applied Solar Energy GmbH a JV between RWE and DASA) in 1994, and later RWE Solar GmbH, in the late 90s one of the...