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Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2016

As a member of ICAN, the Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, Susi Snyder organizes the campaign “Don’t Bank on the Bomb”, loosely translated: “Stop financing nuclear weapons manufacturers”. The idea is as simple as it is brilliant: From now on, anyone who is in favour of total nuclear disarmament will no longer do business with banks that make nuclear deals. No accounts, no loans, nothing.

Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2016

Alfred Sepepe became the beacon of hope for all those who have suffered health problems as a result of South Africa’s nuclear industry. Together with the NGO “Earthlife Africa Johannesburg” he persuaded many of the 500 ex-pelindaba workers with suspicious symptoms to have themselves examined. He formulated requests, repeatedly alarmed the public and resisted attempts at bribery. For this he received a “special recognition”.

Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2017

Jochen Stay has been fighting against uranium dangers for over 30 years with his “x-tausendfach quer” campaign. X-tausendfach quer was and is the name of the most long-lasting seat-blockade campaign of the anti-nuclear movement. “.ausgestrahlt” – another Stay foundation that has been in existence since 2008 – is now used by hundreds of thousands who want to find out where, who, how to protest against nuclear energy. The “Special Recognition” received for its commitment.

Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2017

The term ” The Dedicated of Switzerland’s Anti-Nuke Movement” unites all the tireless people who have been fighting against nuclear power for decades: 15 initiatives from three language regions (representative: Marcos Buser, Dani Costantino, Michel Fernex, Mira Frauenfelder, Iris Frei, Stefan Füglister, Eva Geel, Niculin Gianotti, Heini Glauser, Jürg Joss, Roland Meyer, Ursula Nakamura, Stefan Ograbek, Georg Pankow, Heidi Portmann, Anne-Cécile Reimann, Philippe de Rougemont, Leo Scherer, Egon Schneebeli, Peter Scholer, Martin Walter, Walter Wildi; posthumously Jürg Aerni and Chaim Nissim). They received the “Special Recognition” for their decades of commitment.

Category Solution – 1998

The Indian Dr. Harendra Nath Sharan proves with the biogas plant developed by Sharans Engineering Ltd. in Winterthur for Indian conditions that “adapted technology” is also possible for Switzerland and Central Europe. Technology transfer from south to north. It proves how basic energy supply for a rural population can be ensured with few resources.

Category Solution – 1999

For the physician Michael Sladek and his wife Ursula, it was a question of medical ethics after Chernobyl to be committed against nuclear power. After sometimes bitter discussions in the municipal council and after two citizens’ decisions had been won, the electricity network concession was awarded to the Elektrizitätswerk Schönau (Schönau electricity plant), which had been founded for this purpose. And this produces sustainable and diverse electricity from renewable energies.

Category Solution – 2000

The founders of Barefoot College in the remote desert village of Tilonia (Rajasthan) had one of these rare ideas in 1971, which proved to be sustainable – even under extreme stress. The pioneers said to themselves in the style of Mahatma Gandhi: “Simple people can do it! And they set out to assemble and repair over 1000 solar modules themselves in the dusty outskirts of the Thar Desert.

Category Solution – 2001

In addition to playing a decisive role in shaping the German “Law on the Priority of Renewable Energies”, which came into force on 1.4.2000 and caused a worldwide echo, Fell has helped to implement various support programmes for renewable energies, e.g. the market incentive programme for renewable energies and the tractor conversion programme from diesel to natural vegetable oils.

Category Solution – 2002

In 1999 Helen Clark was elected Prime Minister of New Zealand. Since then, her government has been strongly committed to alliances with other nuclear-free states to create a nuclear-weapon-free world. “Together with many people, organisations and countries, we want to create a world where peoples live together on the basis of trust and mutual respect.”

Category Solution – 2003

Corbin Harney, now a medicine man of the Western Shoshone and one of the great Indian teachers and leaders, was still a small boy when he realized something: Your roots are important! In 1994 he founded the Shundahai Network, an organization that wants to make the voice of the indigenous people audible – for example, against the 1000 or so atomic bombs that exploded on their land for testing purposes.