Rachel Carson Award

{{Infobox award |name = Rachel Carson Award |current_awards = |image = Rachel-Carson.jpg |caption = Carson c.1940 |awarded_for = Women in conservation and the environmental movement |presenter = National Audubon Society |country = USA |year = {{start date and age|2004}} |website = {{URL|https://www.audubon.org/about/rachel-carson-award|Official website}} }}

The '''Rachel Carson Award''' is awarded each spring by the National Audubon Society's Women in Conservation to recognize "women whose immense talent, expertise, and energy greatly advance conservation and the environmental movement locally and globally".<ref>{{cite web|title=The Rachel Caron Award|url=http://www.womeninconservation.org/carson.html|access-date=2013-03-10}}</ref> Honorees are drawn from diverse backgrounds, including the worlds of journalism, academics, business, science, entertainment, philanthropy and law.<ref name="Interfaith Power and Light">{{cite web|title=IPL leader gets Carson Award|url=http://interfaithpowerandlight.org/2012/05/audubon-magazine-the-rev-canon-sally-g-bingham-honored-as-a-woman-in-conservation/|access-date=May 29, 2012}}</ref>

==Background== The award is named in honor of Rachel Carson, the undisputed founder of the modern environmental movement.<ref>{{cite news|last=GRISWOLD|first=ELIZA|title=How 'Silent Spring' Ignited the Environmental Movement|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/magazine/how-silent-spring-ignited-the-environmental-movement.html?pagewanted=all|work=The New York Times|access-date=September 21, 2012|date=September 21, 2012}}</ref> Each year the Rachel Carson Award is created by Tiffany & Company. The Rachel Carson Awards Council was founded by Allison Whipple Rockefeller in 2004.

The award is presented to honorees each May at the Rachel Carson Award Luncheon, held annually at New York City's Plaza Hotel. Proceeds from the luncheon support Audubon's ''Long Island Sound Campaign'', the Sound having undergone unprecedented pollution, habitat loss, and ecosystem disruption in recent years.

Audubon's ''Women in Conservation Program'', in conjunction with Audubon's Rachel Carson Awards Council, supports a website which connects women to leaders in the environmental movement and to pressing environmental issues. Audubon's Women in Conservation also supports an internship program and hosts an educational school panel in which past Rachel Carson Award honorees speak at a local all-girls school.<ref>{{cite news|last=BRATBURD|first=REBECCA|title=Honoring Women Conservationists|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324866904578513543403783114|access-date=2013-10-06|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=May 30, 2013}}</ref>

==Award recipients== ===2004 to 2009=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- !Year !Name !Role |- |rowspan="5"|2004 |Jayni Chase |Environmental activist, philanthropist |- |Lynn Chase |Wildlife artist, philanthropist |- |Maria Rodale |Rodale Publishing, chairman<ref>{{cite web|title=Audubon Women in Conservation – 8th Annual Rachel Carson Awards|url=http://thegreensamaritan.com/2011/05/audubon-women-in-conservation-8th-annual-rachel-carson-awards/|work=2/15/2013|publisher=The Green Samaritan}}</ref> |- |Peggy M. Shepard<ref>{{cite news |date=2018-06-03 |work=The Post-Crescent |author= |title=Campus Notes |url= https://www.newspapers.com/image/437385473/?match=1&terms=%22Rachel%20Carson%20Award%22%20Audubon |page=3 |location=Wisconsin, USA }}</ref> |West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. executive director |- |Alice Waters<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.audubon.org/about/rachel-carson-award-honorees |title = The Rachel Carson Award Honorees |website = The Audubon Society |access-date = March 20, 2019 }}</ref> |Chef, author, restaurateur |- |rowspan="4"|2005 |Kay Kelley Arnold |Entergy Corporation, vice president of public affairs |- |Bernadette Castro |New York State Parks, recreation and historic preservation, former commissioner |- |Mae Jemison<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.audubon.org/about/rachel-carson-award-honorees|title=The Rachel Carson Award Honorees|date=February 23, 2016|work=Audubon|access-date=September 11, 2017|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910072136/http://www.audubon.org/about/rachel-carson-award-honorees|archive-date=September 10, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> |BioSentient Corporation, founder |- |Margaret Wittenberg |Whole Foods Market, vice president of global communications and quality standards |- |rowspan="2"|2006 |Kathleen Bader |NatureWorks LLC, former president and CEO |- |Margie Ruddick |Environmental designer, founder of Margie Ruddick Landscape |- |rowspan="4"|2007 |Frances Beinecke<ref>{{cite web|title=In This Section Who We Are Our Priorities Mission Statement Finances Annual Report NRDC Staff Board of Trustees NRDC Action Fund Partnership for the Earth About NRDC Frances Beinecke Frances Beinecke, NRDC President|url=http://www.nrdc.org/about/frances_beinecke.asp|publisher=NRDC}}</ref> |President of the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) |- |Majora Carter<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.audubon.org/news/press_releases/0507-Women_in_Conservation_05_22_07.html |title=The National Audubon Society 2007 Women in Conservation Luncheon |access-date=January 3, 2009 |last=Barton |first=Erica |publisher=The National Audubon Society |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081130103232/http://www.audubon.org/news/press_releases/0507-Women_in_Conservation_05_22_07.html |archive-date=November 30, 2008}}</ref> |Sustainable South Bronx, founder and executive director |- |Laurie David<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.audubon.org/about/rachel-carson-award-honorees |title=The Rachel Carson Award Honorees: Meet the current winners and those from years past |website=Audubon |access-date=April 15, 2024}}</ref> |Global warming activist, producer, author |- |Deirdre Imus<ref>[http://www.audubon.org/news/press_releases/Women_in_Conservation_05_22_07.html#TopOfPage National Audubon Society press release May 22, 2007.]</ref> |Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology, founder and president |- |rowspan="3"|2008 |Jean Clark, Norma Dana, Marguerite Purnell, Phyllis Cerf Wagner, and Elizabeth Barlow Rogers |Central Park Conservancy |- |Teresa Heinz Kerry | Philanthropist |- |Bette Midler |New York Restoration Project, founder |- |rowspan="4"|2009 |Dr. Sylvia Earle |National Geographic 'Explorer in Residence'; Deep Search Foundation, founder |- |Sally Jewell<ref>{{cite news|last=Goldenberg|first=Suzanne|title=Obama nominates Sally Jewell for US interior secretary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/06/sally-jewel-obama-interior-secretary|publisher=The Guaridian|access-date=2013-02-06|location=London|date=February 6, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Karl|first=Jonathan|title=Obama to Tap REI CEO as Interior Secretary|url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/02/obama-to-tap-rei-ceo-as-interior-secretary/|publisher=ABC News|access-date=2013-02-14}}</ref> |Secretary of the Interior |- |Elizabeth Cushman Titus Putnam<ref>{{cite news |date=2013-06-24 |work=Peninsula Daily News |author=Leah Leach |title=SCA: Entrance |url= https://www.newspapers.com/image/1135408079/ |page=5 |location=Washington, USA }}</ref> |Student Conservation Association, founding president |- |Elizabeth Colleton, Jane Evans and Susan Haspel |NBC Universal's Green is Universal Initiative |- |}

===2010 to 2019=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- !Year !Name !Role |- |rowspan="4"|2010 |Suzanne Lewis |Yellowstone National Park, superintendent |- |Isabella Rossellini |Actress, director, writer and environmental activist |- |Dr. Beth Stevens |Disney World Wide Services, Environmental Affairs, senior vice president |- |Fernanda M. Kellogg |Tiffany & Co. Foundation, president |- |rowspan="2"|2011 |Maya Lin<ref>{{cite web|last=Grady|first=Emma|title=Audubon Honors Sigourney Weaver and Women Driving Gulf Coast Relief Efforts|url=http://www.treehugger.com/culture/audubon-honors-sigourney-weaver-and-women-driving-gulf-coast-relief-efforts-photos.html|publisher=Tree Hugger|access-date=2012-05-01}}</ref> |Artist, architect and environmentalist |- |Sigourney Weaver |Actress and environmental activist |- |rowspan="3"|2012 |Sally Bingham<ref>{{cite web|last=Crouse|first=Colette|title=Women in Conservation Changing the World: Hunter Lovins Honored as 2012 Rachel Carson Award Recipient|url=http://www.natcapsolutions.org/blog/2012/07/17/women-in-conservation-changing-the-world-hunter-lovins-honored-as-2012-rachel-carson-award-recipient/|publisher=Natural Capital Solutions}}</ref> |The Regeneration Project/Interfaith Power and Light, president |- |L. Hunter Lovins |Natural Capitalism Solutions, president |- |Janette Sadik-Khan<ref name="First Post">{{cite web|title=Janette Sadik-Khan - Audubon's 2012 Rachel Carson Award Honoree|url=http://www.firstpost.com/topic/person/rachel-carson-janette-sadik-khan-audubons-2012-rachel-carson-award-hono-video-F_76gkA8Rl0-4939-9.html|publisher=First Post}}</ref> |New York City Department of Transportation, commissioner |- |rowspan="2"|2013 |Marian Heiskell<ref>{{cite news|last=Cunningham|first=Bill|title=Evening Hours|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 2, 2013}}</ref> |Conservationist and philanthropist |- |Lady Bird Johnson<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/regina-weinreich/lady-bird-johnson-rachel_b_3371852.html | title=Lady Bird Johnson, Rachel Carson and Women Conservationists Honored at the National Audubon Society Luncheon | work=HuffPost | date=August 1, 2013 | first=Regina | last=Weinreich | access-date=January 26, 2019}}</ref> |First Lady and environmental pioneer |- |rowspan="3"|2014 |Ellen Futter<ref>{{cite web | title=The Rachel Carson Award Honorees | website=Audubon | date=February 23, 2016 | url=https://www.audubon.org/about/rachel-carson-award-honorees | access-date=June 8, 2022}}</ref> |American Museum of Natural History, president |- |Kaiulani Lee<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kaiulani Lee |url=http://www.kaiulanilee.org |access-date=2017-05-15 |website=Kaiulani Lee}}</ref>

|"A Sense of Wonder" playwright and performer |- |Nell Newman<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.womeninconservation.org|title=Audubon's Women In Conservation|website=womeninconservation.org|access-date=July 1, 2014}}</ref> |Newman’s Own Organics, co-founder and president |- |rowspan="2"|2015 |Warrie Price |Battery Park Conservancy, president and founder |- |Flo Stone |Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital, president and founder |- |rowspan="3"|2016 |Dominique Browning<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Rachel Carson Award Honorees {{!}} Audubon |url=https://www.audubon.org/about/rachel-carson-award-honorees |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=www.audubon.org |language=en}}</ref> |Moms Clean Air Force, co-founder and director |- |Rebecca Moore<ref>{{cite news |date=2018-05-20 |work=Albany Democrat-Herald |author= |title=Earth's vital signs |url= https://www.newspapers.com/image/436289253/?match=1&terms=%22Rachel%20Carson%20Award%22%20Audubon |page=9 |location=Oregon, USA }}</ref> |Google Earth Outreach, founder and director |- |Dr. Kathryn Sullivan |Oceans and Atmosphere, under secretary of commerce; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, administrator |- |rowspan="3"|2017 |Jamie Rappaport Clark<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.audubon.org/about/rachel-carson-award-honorees|title=The Rachel Carson Award Honorees|publisher= Audubon Society|access-date= 17 November 2018}}</ref> |Defenders of Wildlife, president and CEO |- |Dr Heidi Cullen<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.audubon.org/about/rachel-carson-award-honorees|title=The Rachel Carson Award Honorees|publisher= Audubon Society|access-date= 17 November 2018|date=2016-02-23}}</ref> |Climate Central, chief scientist |- |Anne Thompson<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.audubon.org/about/rachel-carson-award-honorees|title=The Rachel Carson Award Honorees|newspaper=Audubon |publisher= Audubon Society|access-date= 17 November 2018}}</ref> |NBC News, chief environmental affairs correspondent |- |rowspan="3"|2018 |Gina McCarthy<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wisconsingazette.com/views/women-in-conservation---gina-mccarthy/youtube_4054421e-2d9c-58ae-a0e6-c2be30b4c6b4.html|title=Women in Conservation 2018 - Gina McCarthy|last=Society|first=National Audubon|website=Wisconsin Gazette|language=en|access-date=2019-04-24}}</ref> |Public Health Practice, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, former EPA administrator and professor |- |Mary Powell<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vermontbiz.com/news/2018/may/15/gmp%E2%80%99s-mary-powell-wins-2018-rachel-carson-award-medal|title=GMP's Mary Powell wins 2018 Rachel Carson Award Medal|date=2018-05-15|website=Vermont Business Magazine|language=en|access-date=2019-04-24}}</ref> |Vermont Green Mountain Power, president and CEO |- |Dorceta Taylor<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://seas.umich.edu/news/02_02_2018/dr_dorceta_taylor_awarded_2018_rachel_carson_award_national_audubon|title=Dr. Dorceta Taylor awarded the 2018 Rachel Carson Award by National Audubon {{!}} University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability|website=seas.umich.edu|access-date=2019-04-24|archive-date=2019-06-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616054001/https://seas.umich.edu/news/02_02_2018/dr_dorceta_taylor_awarded_2018_rachel_carson_award_national_audubon|url-status=dead}}</ref> |University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, director of diversity, equity and inclusion and James E. Crowfoot collegiate professor |- |rowspan="2"|2019 |Rose H. Harvey | |- |Garden Club of America | |}

===2020 onwards=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- !Year !Name !Role |- |rowspan="3"|2021 |Lisa P. Jackson |Apple, Environment, policy, and social initiatives, vice president |- |Fern Shepard, |Rachel's Network, president |- |Kristine McDivitt Tompkins |Tompkins Conservation, co-founder and president |- |2022 |Abigail Dillen |Earthjustice, president |- |rowspan="3"|2023 |Susanne Durst |McEnroe Organic Farm |- |Kathleen Finlay |Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming, president; Pleiades, founder |- |Laura O'Donohue |Snow Hill Farm, founder and CEO |}

==See also==

* List of environmental awards

== References == {{reflist}}

Category:Awards established in 2004 Category:Environmental awards Category:National Audubon Society Award