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Alan
Watson Featherstone founded Trees for Life in 1985 to work
to restore the Caledonian Forest to a large area of the Highlands
of Scotland. This demonstrably successful project continues
today. It has involved thousands of volunteers in the planting
of over 410,000 native trees and inspired similar endeavours
in the UK and South America. A member of the Findhorn Community
since 1978, Alan is now spearheading another major project,
Restoring the Earth, aiming to use his tried and tested
practical and inspirational methods to promote the restoration
of
the world's degraded ecosystems. He sees this as "the
essential and central task for humanity in the 21st Century".
Trees
For Life
The Park, Findhorn Bay, Forres IV36 3TZ
Tel: 01309 691292
Fax: 01309 691155.
Email: trees@findhorn.org
Websites: www.treesforlife.org.uk
and www.restore-earth.org
SHORT-LISTED
NOMINEES
REV.
CANON PETER CHALLEN
Peter Challen has worked tirelessly for many years, both in
his personal capacity and as an industrial chaplain, to foster
social and economic justice in the London Borough of Southwark
and elsewhere. After thirty years as Director of the ecumenical
South London Industrial Mission, he now chairs the Christian
Council of Monetary Justice and plays a prominent part in
several related organisations and activities which he sees
as challenging the increasingly dysfunctional monetary system
which draws many into "debt-servitude". These include
the Forum for Stable Currencies, the Campaign for Interest
Free Money, the Southwark Heritage Association and the Southwark
Social Investment Forum.
Christian
Council for Monetary Justice
21 Bousfield Road, London SE14 5TP
Tel: 020 7207 0509
Email: Peter@southwark.org.uk
Website: www.go.to/ccmj
MIKE
FLOOD
POWERFUL INFORMATION
Mike Flood founded Powerful Information (PI) in 1990 and has
remained its Director ever since. PI works with locally-based
NGOs and key institutions involved in community development,
public education and environmental regulation, in low-income
countries primarily in East and Central Europe and West Africa.
By building local capacity to access and communicate relevant
information, PI empowers people to use this know-how effectively
for the health and wellbeing of their communities and the
protection of the environment. Mike's work, carried out with
energy, enthusiasm and unflinching commitment often in the
most difficult of circumstances, is focussed on finding practical
solutions to real problems while celebrating culture, place
and local distinctiveness.
Powerful
Information
Discovery Centre, Bradwell Abbey, Milton Keynes MK13 9AP
Tel/Fax: 01908 320033
Email: mike@powerfulinformation.org
Website: www.powerfulinformation.org
CLARE GERBRANDS
MADE IN STROUD
Clare Gerbrands started Made in Stroud craft markets in 1989
and launched the Made in Stroud Farmers Market in 1999 - the
first in Gloucestershire and one of the first in the UK. The
market now takes place twice a month and supports over fifty
local farmers, food producers and craft makers. Almost everything
is from within twenty-five miles of Stroud and a high proportion
of the produce is organic. Eighty stallholders are on the
books, and musicians and storytellers make the markets festive
occasions. It has its own premises housing the co-operative
Made in Stroud Shop and a Farmers Market Information Point.
Clare's initiative has made an invaluable contribution towards
the revitalisation of the heart of Stroud and the re-localisation
of the Stroud economy, and her example gives inspiration to
other similar projects around the country.
Made
in Stroud
16 Kendrick Street, Stroud, Glos GL5 1AA
Tel: 01453 758060,
Email: info@madeinstroud.org
Website: www.madeinstroud.org
JAMES SKINNER
BRISTOL ELECTRIC RAILBUS
James Skinner set up Bristol Electric Railbus Ltd in 1998
to demonstrate that small, affordable trams or Ultra Light
Rail (ULR) can be operated commercially. He commissioned two
trams from Parry People Movers and in May 1998 inaugurated
the first demonstration service in the world along the Harbourside
in Bristol, sponsored by Bristol City Council. At its conclusion
in October 2000 it had proved highly successful and has resulted
in a full-scale ULR service being included in the Local Transport
Plan as a future project. Through single-minded dedication
and hard work, James has shown beyond question that ULR is
clean, long-lasting and energy-efficient and can replace buses,
thus reducing pollution and increasing the use of public transport.
The challenge is now to secure the funding to establish the
ULR scheme so that it can be introduced in Bristol and elsewhere
in the world, and for the Research and Development to adapt
light trams to run on solar power and other forms of renewable
energy.
Bristol
Electric Railbus LTD
CREATE Centre, Smeaton Road, Bristol BS1 6XN
Tel: 0117 930 0901
Email: jimmy@jskinner.demon.co.uk
FURTHER
INFORMATION
For
further information on the Awards please contact:
Alison Pritchard
Schumacher UK Council Member
Tel: 01491 652346
Fax: 01491 651804
Email: pritchard@tp2000.demon.co.uk
NOMINATIONS
FOR 2002
Forms
for nominations for the 2002 award will be sent out with the
next newsletter. So please will members start thinking about
whom they might put forward. And do encourage others to join
Schumacher UK, so they become eligible to nominate.
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