
While there are no winners from the Middle East this year, an important awards organization Katerva scours the globe for people and organizations that can make real immediate change for our planet. Now Katerva has announced its 10 winners for the Katerva Awards 2012.  In 2011 we wrote about Katerva’s 8 finalist projects that will save planet earth (including this eco-toilet) and today we bring you the 10 winners for 2012. Terry Waghorn who established the organization spends his days and nights networking and Skyping with high-ranking authorities across the globes from celebs, princesses, supermodels, entrepreneurs, universities and techies at their hubs. Oh, and once and a while this Green Prophet. Unlike TED events (see the TEDx we helped organized in Jaffa) which bring together important and inspiring people to talk, Katerva is a catalyst that aims to put talk into serious action.
According to Waghorn, “Today’s unprecedented challenges require a new kind of organization, one that optimizes the world’s unprecedented interconnectedness, prioritizes action and systematically taps the most innovative ideas on the planet. Katerva is that organization: designed to convene, catalyze and accelerate breakthrough solutions to global challenges.”
Winners (posted below, which includes the grand prize winner for a micro-implantable vaccine delivery device) will be fostered through development stages by members of Katerva – people, Â businesses and committed experts. Read on for the list that wins support from Katerva. These are organizations that should be on every humanitarian funders’ e-roladex, and obviously they are great starts for interns and volunteers. Simply by sharing this post you can help support them. And the winners are: