title: Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace
author:  Vandana Shiva 
description: <div>A world-renowned environmental leader and recipient of the 1993 Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award), Shiva has authored several bestselling books, most recently Earth Democracy. Activist and scientist, Shiva leads, with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin, the International Forum on Globalization. Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India's leading physicists.</div>
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  VANDANA SHIVA is a world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, a leader
  in the International Forum on Globalisation, and of the Slow Food Movement.
  Director of Navdanya and of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology
  and Ecology, and a tireless crusader for farmers', peasants' and women's
  rights, she is the author and editor of a score of influential books, among
  them _Making Peace with the Earth_ ; _Soil Not Oil_ ; _Globalization 's New
  Wars; Seed Sovereignty, Food Security: Women in the Vanguard_; and _Who Really
  Feeds the World?_
  
  
  Shiva is the recipient of over twenty international awards, including the
  Right Livelihood Award (1993); Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic
  (1998); the Horizon 3000 Award (Austria, 2001); the John Lennon-Yoko Ono Grant
  for Peace (2008); the Save the World Award (2009); the Sydney Peace Prize
  (2010); the Calgary Peace Prize (2011); and the Thomas Me