Right Livelihood Award: The 'Alternative Nobel Prize'

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The Right Livelihood Award honours and supports those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today.

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Unlike the Nobel Prizes (for Physics, Physiology/Medicine, Chemistry, Literature, and Peace), the Right Livelihood Award has no categories. It recognizes that, in striving to meet the human challenges of today's world, the most inspiring and remarkable work often defies any standard classification. For example, people who start out with an environmental goal frequently find themselves drawn into issues of health, human rights and/or social justice. Their work becomes a holistic response to community needs so that sectoral categories lose their meaning.

Learn what "Right Livelihood" means:
http://www.rightlivelihood.org/right_livelihood.html

Find out more about the history of the Award:
http://www.rightlivelihood.org/history.html

Statistics about the Award:
http://www.rightlivelihood.org/statistics.html

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