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Past Recipients of Rainforest Alliance Sustainable Standard-Setter and Green Globe Awards

More about the Rainforest Alliance's 20 years.

For more than a decade the Rainforest Alliance has honored and celebrated the accomplishments of exemplary individuals and businesses that have demonstrated dedication, innovation and a commitment to the global environment.

Past Honorees


2006
The Grupo Roda
Pictorial Offset Corporation
Roberto Llach and Diego Llach of Wild Forest Coffee
ECOM / Atlantic (USA)
Horizontes Nature Tours
National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia
UCC Ueshima Coffee Company, LTD
Art Wolfe

2005
Candlewood Timber Group LLC
Favorita Fruit Company
The Forestland Group LLC
Kraft Foods Inc.
Santiago Dunn, Ecoventura
Grupo Kachalu
Luis Pascoal, DaTerra
Tom Quadracci, Quad/Graphics
Alan Knight

2004
Frank A. Dottori, President & CEO, Tembec
Anderson-Tully
Domtar
Klabin SA
Precious Woods Group
Tembec
IKEA
FedEx Kinko's
Jameson French, Northland Forest Products
Sergio Madrid, Consejo Civil Mexicano para Silvicultura Sostenible
Jonathan E. Martin, Roy O. Martin Lumber Management
Michael E. Conroy, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (formerly with the Ford Foundation)
David Refkin, Time Inc.

2003
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Balzac Brothers & Co.
D.R. Wakefield & Co.
Thanksgiving Coffee Company
VOLCAFE GROUP
Hans Jöhr, Nestlé
Mary Williams, Starbucks Coffee Company
Everardo & Astrid Bernstorff, coffee farmers
Martin and Alex Keller, coffee farmers
Alicia Morales, President, La Union Cooperative
Holly and Dieter Nottebohm, coffee farmers
Francisco and Carlos Ralda, coffee farmers

2002
Gibson Guitar Corporation/Henry E. Juszkiewicz
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
Victor Lichtinger
Judith P. Sulzberger, M.D.

2001
Chiquita Brands International, Robert Kistinger
John Michael Forgach, President and CEO, A2R Fund Management
Sarah Yamina Ifrah, Young Environmentalist

2000
Nickelodeon, Herb Scannel
Ben & Jerry's, Ben Cohen
Chevy and Jayni Chase

1999
AT & T
Kafus Environmental Industries, Ken Swaisland
Alec Baldwin
Ellen Futter, President of the American Museum of Natural History

1998
Ermenegildo Zegna
Dr. Alison F. Richard
Olivia Newton-John

1997
Amway, David L. Van Andel, Senior VP
John Hendricks, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Discovery Communications, Inc.
Island Press, Chuck Savitt, President
J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc., Michael E. Patterson, Vice Chairman
Henry Muller, Editorial Director, Time Inc.
Thomas Eisner, Professor, Cornell University
Rodrigo Gámez, Director INBio
Bianca Jagger, Human Rights and Environmental Advocate
George Page, Host, Narrator and Executive Editor, WNET's "Nature"
Luke Sanchez, Young environmentalist

1996
Gerry Ellis
Walter Cronkite

1995
Ted Turner
Claudette Mo, Universidad Nacional in Costa Rica

1994
Peter Matthiessen
Maria Jose Gonzalez, Fundacion Interamericana de Investigacion Tropical

1993
Ziff Brothers Investments, William Ziff
Dr. Jane Goodall

1992
Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy

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