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THE RENE DUBOS ENVIRONMENTAL AWARDS
"Learning From Success" Since
there are countless ways to go wrong but only a very few ways to do right, our
best chance to deal successfully with our contemporary problems and those of the
future is to learn from the success
stories of our times.
(Rene
Dubos) BACKGROUND The
Rene Dubos Environmental Awards were established by The Rene Dubos Center in
1984 to recognize individual leadership in keeping with its mission -- to help
decision-makers and the general public formulate policies for the resolution of
environmental problems and for the creation of new environmental values. The goals of the Rene Dubos Environmental
Awards are: 1) to highlight the creative aspects of human interventions into
nature; and 2) to emphasize the interdependence of technical, social and
humanistic considerations in all environmental issues. The following provisions govern the presentation of the Awards:
The
Awards -- in the form of a Tiffany crystal pyramid set on a teak base with
an engraved silver plaque -- are presented at the annual Rene Dubos
Environmental Awards Dinner in May in New York City. The Awards are presented on the
recommendation of The Center's Board of Trustees.
1996 -- IMPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
OF THE TRANSPORTATION/ TELECOMMUNICATIONS REVOLUTIONS Jaime Lerner, Governor, State of Parana, Brazil, for serving
as a model administrator when, as Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, he stressed
innovative citizen participation in place of master planning and turned Curitiba
into a living laboratory for a style of urban development based on a preference for public transportation over the
private automobile. Frederic V. Salerno, Vice Chairman, Finance and Business Development, NYNEX Corporation, for his model leadership in promoting sustainable development as exemplified by NYNEX's Telecom Asia success story in Thailand -- a case study in technology cooperation between developed and developing countries 1995
-- ECONOMIC GROWTH & ENVIRONMENTAL Jacqueline Aloisi de Larderel, Director, UNEP's Industry and Environment
Programme Activity Centre, for serving as a leading voice for the international
business community in helping formulate positions on, and commitment to,
sustainable development, and for her promotion of a preventative rather than a
cure and restore approach. Samuel Curtis Johnson, Chairman, S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., for his
leadership during his company's worldwide expansion which demonstrated ways
environmentalism and good management can work together. 1994
-- WORLD ENERGY TO THE YEAR 2020 Douglas I. Foy, Executive Director, Conservation Law
Foundation, for his direction of an effective model in public/private
cooperation involving electric utilities and customers designed to improve
energy use and efficiency. Eugene R. McGrath, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, for his leadership of the Enlightened Energy Program, designed to reduce long-term energy needs and provide major environmental and economic benefits 1993
-- TRADE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Frank Popoff, Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer, The Dow Chemical Company, for recognizing the need
in the international business community and then taking a leadership role for
sustainable development. Sir Shridath Ramphal, President World Conservation Union, for his remarkable career as a international statesman and for his wise judgments and far-sighted initiatives in helping to resolve significant environmental conflicts worldwide. 1992 -- THE ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY SUMMIT Will D. Carpenter, Vice President and General Manager, Monsanto
Agricultural Company, for his creative role as the principal driving force
behind Monsanto's continuing leadership in agricultural biotechnology research
and development globally. W. Parker Mauldin, Senior Associate, The Population Council, for
his distinguished career with the Council and The Rockefeller Foundation,
devoted to the understanding and alleviation of population problems. David and Pia Maybury-Lewis, Co-Founders, Cultural Survival, for their
vision in creating, and their continuing commitment to an organization devoted
to helping indigenous people and ethnic minorities deal with industrial society. Chauncey Starr, President Emeritus, Electric Power Research
Institute, for his major contributions in industry and education, especially on
the peaceful uses of atomic energy, risk assessment, and energy studies. 1991 -- INTEGRATING WASTE MANAGEMENT Charles W. Powers, Managing Partner, Resources for Responsible
Management, for his continuing leadership in management ethics and in improving
public-private sector collaboration on controversial public issues. Harry E. Teasley, Jr., President and CEO, Coca-Cola Foods, for his
distinguished career with The Coca‑Cola Company, especially as chairman of
their worldwide environmental task force, and his leadership in packaging, solid
waste recycling, and public policy. Lee M. Thomas, CEO and Chairman, Law Companies Environmental
Group, for his outstanding career in government culminating in his leadership at
EPA, first as Assistant Administrator in charge of hazardous waste programs and
later as Administrator. 1990 -- LIVING WITH RISK E. P. Blanchard, Jr., Vice Chairman, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and
Company, for taking the leadership role at the Du Pont Company in calling for an
orderly withdrawal of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) products and the development of
less ozone depleting replacements. Hugh Downs, Host 20/20, for his distinguished career in
radio and television as a reporter, newscaster, interviewer, narrator and host
committed to the task of bringing the critical issues of our total environment
into the homes and lives of the general public. Irving J. Selikoff, Professor Emeritus, Mount Sinai School of
Medicine, for his creativity throughout his remarkable career in medical science
and education that continues unabated, especially for his world leadership role
in determining the biological effects of asbestos. 1989 -- THE CITY AS A HUMAN ENVIRONMENT Sandra S. Gardebring, Commissioner of Human Services, State of
Minnesota, for exemplary work in directing the Minnesota Pollution Control
Authority; proclaimed the nation's most effective clean-up program with modest
federal support. Henry B. Schacht, Chairman and CEO, Cummins Engine Company, for
his significant strategies in finding processes for setting standards under the
Clean Air Act Amendments and creating the Health Effects Institute. Basil Snider, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, Garden
State Paper Company, for helping to solve the mounting municipal waste
management problem in North America through Garden State Paper Company's success
in recycling old newspapers and waste paper to new newsprint. Arthur C. Upton, Professor and Director, Institute of
Environmental Medicine, NYU Medical Center, for his signal leadership in
environmental medicine at NYU Medical Center; National Cancer Institute; Oak
Ridge National Laboratory; Brookhaven National Laboratory and contributions to
the quality of life worldwide. 1988 -- MANAGING HAZARDOUS MATERIALS E. Hamilton Hurst, Senior Vice President, Environmental Health and
Safety, NALCO (retired) for his distinguished leadership in the development of
the CMA's Community Awareness and Emergency Response program (CAER). Sheldon W. Samuels, Director, Health, Safety & Environment,
Industrial Union Department, AFL‑CIO, for increasing the awareness and
ability of unions to deal objectively with environmental problems. Russell E. Train, Chairman of the Board, Conservation Foundation/
World Wildlife Fund‑U.S., for his wise judgment and farsighted initiatives
in helping to resolve significant environmental conflicts worldwide. 1987 -- ONLY ONE EARTH FORUM Gro Harlem Bruntdland, Prime Minister of Norway, in recognition of her
contributions to the global community, especially as Chairman of the World
Commission on Environment and Development (also known as the Bruntdland
Commission) Robert O. Anderson, petroleum executive, rancher and civic leader,
for his exceptional leadership in the cause of sustainable development, in
recognition of his extensive civic, educational and cultural contributions,
especially as Founder and Chairman of the International Institute for
Environment and Development. 1986
-- MANAGING LAND USE Marion Clawson, Senior Fellow Emeritus at Resources for the
Future, for his dedicated work within that organization, in government, and for
his prodigious and indelible contributions to the scholarly literature on land
management. William S. Lee, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the
Duke Power Company, for successfully demonstrating the compatibility of private-sector
economic contributions and sound resource stewardship. Ian McHarg, for his achievements and worldwide influence as
author of Design with Nature and founder and Chairman of the Department of
Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. Robert T. Stafford, United States Senator and Chairman of the
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, for consistently converting his
principles into concrete legislation which will benefit the environment for
years to come. 1985 -- MANAGING WATER RESOURCES J. Floyd Byrd, Manager of Environmental Affairs at The Buckeye
Cellulose Corporation, a subsidiary of The Procter and Gamble Company, for
distinguished leadership in environmental control and conservation of natural
and cultural resources. Ruth Patrick, founder of the Patrick Center for Environmental
Research at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, for her remarkable
scientific career and realization of the importance of integrating air, land and
water in considering the effects of pollution. William D. Ruckelshaus, first and fifth Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency, for his imaginative organizing of the original
Environmental Protection Agency and for the high standards he has set for and
within industry. Abel Wolman, Professor Emeritus of Sanitary Engineering at
the Johns Hopkins University, for his significant and on-going contributions to
national and international programs to manage water resources. 1984
-- ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH: TOXIC CHEMICALS Sam Gusman, former director of the Conservation
Foundation's dispute resolution program, for making policy dialogue an
acceptable and realistic method of dealing with potentially contentious issues. Norton Nelson, who was instrumental in organizing the
Institute of Environmental Medicine at New York University, and for a lifetime
of active involvement in the development of both toxicology and environmental
health. M. C. Pruitt, former Vice President for Research for The Dow
Chemical Company, who conceptualized and established the Chemical Industry
Institute of Toxicology, a leading contributor of toxicological information and
of trained scientists in the field of toxicology.
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