Allying with Nature to Regenerate our Living Planet…
This page is automatically generated from all the Hall of Fame listings based out of Europe.
The Ocean Cleanup – Delft, Netherlands Boyan Slat is a Dutch Inventor and entrepreneur who creates technological solutions to global problems. He is the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup; a foundation which develops advanced systems to rid world’s oceans of plastic. In 2011,
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Rewilding Europe – Nijmegen, Netherlands Wouter Helmer, co-founder and Director of Rewilding Europe, is described as ‘an instigator of modern ecology, a brilliant and connecting thinker and a great communicator.’ His understanding of ecosystems and ‘trust’ in natural processes, the connection with relevant socio-economic factors,
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Former Environmental Officer – Bucharest, Romania Octavian Berceanu, a former commissioner for the Romanian environmental police is now a climate activist who tracks down waste smugglers. “These are organized crime structures!” he says. He partakes in “Reforestation without official permission, as sand is overrunning Oltenia,
Read moreSlow Food – Italy “A Slow Revolution toward respecting food, a deeper appreciation of food that serves as an example for the entire world.” Carlo Petrini has profoundly articulated and re-shaped our contemporary understanding of food, its production, its inter-relationship with the environment and our
Read moreIcelandic Forest Service – Iceland Thröstur Eysteinsson spent his childhood exploring Iceland’s bountiful natural world. His grandfathers were active volunteers in the country’s forestry societies, which he later joined while working as a high school science teacher. As he learned more about the history of
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Hugo Meinhard Schiecht (1922-2002) was an Austrian architect, engineer, botanist, professor, author, vegetative cartographer, and painter. He stood out for describing, painting and inventorying the alpine vegetation and, especially, for his work in the control of erosive processes and the perennialization of water courses and
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Sustainable Land Management – Amsterdam, Netherlands Dr. Reij was honored by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) as “Global Drylands Champion” in 2013. An ardent supporter of the work of the Global Restoration Initiative, he has worked in Africa since 1978. Although Chris
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Syntropic Agriculture – Switzerland Ernst Gotsch is a Swiss farmer and researcher working mostly in Brazil. He has originated a system of climate and biodiversity friendly sustainable farming techniques known as syntropic agriculture or dynamic/successional agroforestry. The practice of Syntropic Agriculture focuses highly on regeneration
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Trees for Life – Scotland, UK Alan Watson Featherstone is an inspirational public speaker, ecologist, nature photographer and writer based in the Findhorn Community in the northeast of Scotland. Featherstone has given lectures and workshops all over the world and spoken at various international conferences
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Boris is perhaps best known for his film, “Battle of the Elms,” which depicts the Elm Conflict, a public protest turned violent dispute, starting May 11, 1971. He is currently producing a series of films about the people who are currently dedicating their lives to
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Daan Bleichrodt is on a mission to re-connect urban kids with nature worldwide. He is Chief Tree Planting Officer at the IVN environmental education and leads the Tiny Forest movement in the Netherlands. He is also a consultant and teacher for Earthwatch in the UK,
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Robert Adrian de Jauralde Hart (1913-2000) was an English pioneer of forest gardening in temperate zones. He created a model forest garden from a 0.12 acre (500 m²) orchard on his farm. Hart began with a smallholding called Highwood Hill farm at Wenlock Edge. His
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Charles and Perrine Hervé-Gruyer are a “power couple” that decided to become low impact farmers in 2006 with their Bec Hellouin Permaculture Farm. The couple was untainted by knowledge of conventional western practices and took on the principles of permaculture as well as varied sources
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Sir Albert Howard (1873-1947) was the founder of the organic farming movement. Starting as a Plant Scientist in England, he worked for 25 years as an agricultural investigator in India, first as Agricultural Adviser to States in Central India and Rajputana, then as Director of
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Sepp Holzer is a farmer, an author, and an international consultant for natural agriculture. After an upbringing in a traditional Catholic rural family in Austria, he took over his parents’ mountain farm business in 1962 and became well-known for his use of ecological farming, or
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