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05/06/2024 – Thursday 6 June 2024 the city of Pesaro welcomes a true icon of global environmental activism: the Indian Vandana Shiva, champion of good practices in agriculture, against GMOs, insecticides and water abuse.
Time magazine defined her as a “Hero of the environment”. Vandana Shiva, author of fundamental texts and protagonist of docufilms defending ecology and biodiversity, was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1993, the “Nobel Prize for Sustainability”. Dr. Shiva is also a world-renowned quantum physicist. After an in meeting with the students of the A. Cecchi Higher Education Institute and a visit to the organic agricultural cooperative of the Girolimoni Family, at the Montebello Monastery, Vandana Shiva will be the protagonist of the public meeting “Words that change the world” at the Town Hall of Pesaro (Piazza del Popolo, 5).
The event is organized by the Councilor to Sustainability and Cohesion Maria Rosa Conti; she and the environmentalist Grazia Francescato will talk with the famous activist about the need to free the planet from a destructive colonization of nature. On this occasion, Vandana Shiva will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award assigned by the International Poetry and Civilization Prize “Beauty remains”, which is part of the National Bioethics Festival, organized by the Italian Institute of Bioethics, based in Genoa. The Award is sponsored, among other institutions, by UNICEF and the European Union.
“The Italian Institute of Bioethics has been inspired by Vandana Shiva’s ideas for many years – explains Roberto Malini from Pesaro, President of the Award – and was enthusiastic at the idea of awarding her the prestigious recognition on the occasion of the meeting in Pesaro. The great Indian activist loves poetry and it is not uncommon for her to read Tagore and Rilke in her public speeches. The motivation for the award begins like this: ‘For its mission to give voice and poetry to lands, forests and oceans; for his ability to transform words into instruments of justice, peace and sustainability’. I am proud to be able to give you the certificate, strictly in recycled paper, with a reclaimed wood frame.”
