Rainer Nõlvak (born September 28, 1966) is an

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

n entrepreneur and nature protector who is the chairman of the board of the

Estonian Nature Fund Estonian Fund for Nature (Eestimaa Looduse Fond) or ELF is an Estonian environmental non-profit organisation. Mission Mission of ELF is to preserve the rich natural diversity in Estonia and the world through active cooperation with individual ...

. Rainer Nõlvak has advocated for the Estonian energy industry to move away from

oil shale Oil shale is an organic-rich fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen (a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds) from which liquid hydrocarbons can be produced. In addition to kerogen, general composition of oil shales constitute ...

and move towards renewable energy systems. He has published the "Green Energy" program. He was among the organizers of

Let's Do It 2008 Let's do it 2008 ( et, Teeme ära 2008) was a large campaign on 3 May 2008, to activate civic society in Estonia in an effort to cleanup the country from litter. It was organized by Let's Do It! World. Preparation The litter pickup spots were m ...

, a civic action with 50,000 volunteers participating in cleaning up the countryside of

in one day. Because of this he received the 2008

Estonian Volunteer of the Year The Volunteer of the Year ( et, Aasta vabatahtlik) is a national award in Estonia for volunteer work, established in 2005.Let's Do It! World Let's Do It World is a global civic organization that started from Estonia, mobilizing people worldwide in joining local, national and regional clean-up events. Among other projects, it is the founder of World Cleanup Day, on which a network of ...

action. He founded the following companies: Microlink Baltics, Curonia Research, Celecure. He was awarded the title of Citizen of the Year in 2008 and the Order of the White Star 3rd Class of Estonia in 2014.

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* Estonian businesspeople Living people Estonian environmentalists Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 3rd Class 1966 births {{environmentalist-stub