BIE-Cosmos Prize Nominees

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BIE-Cosmos Prize Nominees

We are pleased to announce the nominees for the second edition of the BIE-Cosmos Prize, to be awarded at EXPO Shanghai 2010 (full title of the prize: "BIE-Cosmos Prize, EXPO Shanghai 2010 for Better City, Better Life").

The BIE-Cosmos Prize will be awarded to a selected not-for-profit project that contributes to the realization of the Expo theme, "Better City, Better Life."

Name	Organization & Title	Country	Project title
Mr. Cherdsak VIRAPAT	International Ocean Institute Headquarters Executive Director	Thailand	"Tsunami Prevention and Preparedness Practices for Tourism Sector and Private Entrepreneur in Khao Lak, Phang Nga Province of Thailand (TPPP)"
Mr. Riccardo VANNUCCI	FAREstudio (on behalf of AIDOS, Italian NGO) Architect	Italy	"Centre for the Well Being of Women (CBF)"
Miss Keneilwe MOSEKI	Somarelang Tikologo (Environment Watch Botswana) Executive Director	Botswana	"Urban Community Empowerment Project"
Mrs. Irania MARTINEZ	Community sur Isleta, Ciudad Guantanamo, Cuba Local Promoter	Cuba	"Waste management in Cuban local community"
Mr. Ignas BRAZAUSKAS	"Darom 2009" Director	Lithuania	"Waste collection and awareness-raising on a national scale"
Ms./Professor Xiaosong ZHANG	Chain Reaction: Guizhou Rural Tourism Development Center Director	China	"For Our Daughters" Combating poverty, disempowerment, and cultural loss for ethnic minority women in Guizhou, China
Mr. Marc LIBESSART	Fondation Internationale de l'Hôpital Albert Schweitzer Lambaréné Gabon Director General	Gabon	"Le Projet Santé Plus" Education and awareness-raising about HIV/AIDS and support to HIV/AIDS patients
De Pirro, Garcia Lascurain, Gamboa, and Zavala	DGL, De Pirro and Garcia Lascurain Architects S.C. and Instituto Mexicano de Urbanismo, A.C. Architects	Mexico	“The Barefoot Urbanist. Design Guidelines for Progressive Urban Developments”
Mr. Ralph NAUTA and Ms. Lonneke GORDIJN	DRIFT (designstudio) Industrial designers and owners	Netherlands	“Obsidian: A Brilliant Bit of Waste Furniture design: promoting the solution for the worldwide chemical waste problem”
Dr. David Leonides T. YAP	University of the Philippines, School of Urban and Regional Planning Associate Professor and Director of Research	Philippines	"Studies on ways to factor in green urbanism guidelines in planning future human settlements as a strategy to address climate change"