title: Rachel Carson Prize (environmentalist award)
text: # Rachel Carson Prize (environmentalist award)
  
  The Rachel Carson Prize (Rachel Carson-prisen) is an international environmental award, established in Stavanger, Norway in 1991 to commemorate the achievements of environmentalist Rachel Carson and to award efforts in her spirit. The prize is awarded to a woman who has distinguished herself in outstanding work for the environment in Norway or internationally.
  
  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
  