2007 Awards

The winners of the Interfaith Award in 2007 were:

Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell
Environmental-human rights-interfaith leader.
The Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell is Director of the Department of Religion at the Chautauqua Institution; former General Secretary of the National Council of Churches USA (1990-2000), and Director of the US Office of the World Council of Churches (1985-89), Chair of the National Religious Partnerships for the Environment (1993 -).

The Venerable Kyotaro DeGuchi
Advisor to the Oomoto Foundation
Grandson and spiritual successor of Onisaboro DeGuchi, the legendary co-founder of Oomoto - a Shinto Community dedicated both to interfaith collaboration and to Japan's traditional arts, No drama; poetry, tea ceremony; silk weaving; raku ceramics and calligraphy who publicly opposed and was jailed in Japan's military buildup 1930-45.

Mr. Nicholas D. Kristof
Pulitzer Prize winning Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times and global human rights advocate
Pulitzer prize winning Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times and creator of the second annual win-a-trip writing competition for one college student and one high school teacher to accompany Nick on an all-expenses-paid reporting odyssey to Africa this summer.

Prof. Steven C. Rockefeller
Educator and global environmentalist; creator of The Earth Center
Creator of THE EARTH CHARTER and co-chair of the Steering Committee for the Earth Charter Commission and Earth Council; Professor Emeritus of Religion, former Dean and Chairman of Religion Department at Middlebury College in Vermont.

Prof. Carl Sagan
Posthumous award for pioneering work in astronomy, the environment and interfaith activities
Professor of Astronomy at Cornell. Co-founder: Joint Appeal by Science and Religion for the environment. December, 2006, marking the 10th anniversary of his death, his widow and editor Anne Druyan published "The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God." Required reading!

Paul Winter
The world's premiere environmental musician
Globally famous environmental composer, soprano sax performer and Consort organizer - creator of The Winter Solstice and Summer Solstice concerts and the legendary Missa Gaia honoring St. Francis and the Feast of the Animals each October.