Entries for 2019 are now closed. The shortlist will be announced in February 2019.
The Judges
The LUSH Spring Prize judges are from a wide spectrum of movements representing regenerative design, permaculture, food sovereignty, transition, biomimicry and eco-village networks.
Warren Brush
Warren Brush is a global resilience design consultant, educator, lecturer and storyteller.
Elizabeth Couse
LUSH customer judge (Lush selects one customer to act as an additional independent member of the judging panel).
Dorothy Guerrero
Dorothy Guerrero is an internationalist with almost 30 years of experience in social movements.
Precious Phiri
Precious Phiri is a training and development specialist from Regeneration International in Zimbabwe.
Filipa Pimentel
Filipa works for Transition Network and is a Portuguese forest scientist by training.
Gamelihle Sibanda
Gamelihle Sibanda is a certified Biomimicry professional who co-developed the Biominga Innovation Model.
Pandora Thomas
Pandora Thomas is a passionate global citizen who works as a caregiver, teacher, writer, designer and speaker from the USA.
Daniel Christian Wahl
Dr. Wahl works internationally as a consultant and educator in regenerative development, whole systems design, and transformative innovation.
Julia Wright
Julia Wright is Senior Research Fellow in Agroecological Futures, with a background in international development.
About the Lush Spring Prize
People all over the world are developing ways to live in harmony with nature and each other. They are generating renewable resources, restoring ecosystems, nurturing solidarity and building health, wholeness and resilience.
The Lush Spring Prize is here to support this regeneration movement through:
- An annual £200,000 prize fund. This is open to communities, organisations and businesses from the Intentional stage, through to Young and Established organisations, and Influencers. We are currently closed for entries but plan to reopen in September 2019.
- Events that bring people together to share their skills and experience.
- Publicity to raise awareness of regeneration and its potential to heal damaged systems.
Find out more about the Prize, its purpose, and who is behind it.
Past Winner Case Study
The Timbaktu Collective
The Timbaktu Collective was a winner of the Established Projects award in 2017.
It works for sustainable development in the drought prone Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh (A.P.) in India. ‘Timbaktu’ means ‘where the earth meets the sky’.
Learn more about them, and how winning the Prize has made a difference to their work.
