Rachel Carson Prize (environmentalist award)
International environmental award for women
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The prize was established spontaneously during a 1989 meeting in Stavanger, on the initiative of speaker Berit Ås. The prize consists of money and the sculpture The Cormorant by artist Irma Bruun Hodne.
Awardees
- 1991: Sidsel Mørck, Norwegian author and activist
- 1993: Bergljot Børresen, Norwegian veterinarian
- 1995: Anne Grieg, Norwegian psychiatrist
- 1997: Berit Ås, Norwegian feminist and professor in social psychology
- 1999: Theo Colborn, American zoologist
- 2001: Renate Künast, German Federal Minister of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture
- 2003: Åshild Dale, Norwegian farmer
- 2005: Malin Falkenmark, Swedish professor in hydrology
- 2007: Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Canadian Inuit climate activist
- 2009: Marie-Monique Robin, French journalist
- 2011: Marilyn Mehlmann, Swedish environmentalist and writer
- 2013: Sam Fanshawe, British marine conservationist
- 2015: Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, Iranian environmental toxicologist
- 2016: Gabrielle Hecht
- 2017: Sylvia Earle
- 2019: Greta Thunberg, Swedish climate activist
- 2021: Maja Lunde, Norwegian author
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