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Jens Ole von Uexküll (born February 24, 1978) is
Jens Ole von Uexküll (born February 24, 1978) is executive director
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The title is widely used in North American and European not-for-profit organizations, though ...
of the Stockholm
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-based Right Livelihood Award
The Right Livelihood Award is an international award to "honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today." The prize was established in 1980 by German-Swedish philanthropist Jakob v ...
Foundation. Founded in 1980, the Right Livelihood Awards are given annually to people pioneering "exemplary solutions to our most urgent global problems" in the fields of the environment
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* Biophysical environment, the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism or ...
, human rights
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, peace
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or development
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Arts
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*Filmmaking, development phase, including finance and budgeting
*Development (music), the process thematic material is reshaped
*Photographi ...
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Ole has earlier worked on renewable energy
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and green design
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with the German Parliament
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, UNEP 's Division of Technology
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, Industry, and Economics
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Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...
in Paris
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and the Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado
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. He is a great-grandson of the biologist Jakob von Uexküll
Jakob may refer to:
People
* Jakob (given name), including a list of people with the name
* Jakob (surname), including a list of people with the name
Other
* Jakob (band), a New Zealand band, and the title of their 1999 EP
* Max Jakob Memorial Aw ...
and a nephew of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation's founder Jakob von Uexkull
Jakob may refer to:
People
* Jakob (given name), including a list of people with the name
* Jakob (surname), including a list of people with the name
Other
* Jakob (band), a New Zealand band, and the title of their 1999 EP
* Max Jakob Memorial Aw ...
.
External links
* http://www.rightlivelihood.org 1978 births Living people Swedish activists {{sweden-bio-stub