The Greensboro Public Library is proud to announce that Sarah Dorsey is the winner of the 2014 Thomas Berry Award. The
Thomas Berry Award recognizes an individual or organization that has
demonstrated a sustained effort to implement environmental programs that
advance a mutually enhancing human/earth relationship based on the
philosophies and writings of Greensboro native, Thomas Berry, or has
engaged in re-imagining the human-earth relationship through
scholarship, writing, poetry or the arts.
This
award, presented by the Greensboro Public Library, honors the legacy of
one of Greensboro’s most influential authors whose works have notably
influenced the intellectual/spiritual history of the twentieth and early
twenty-first centuries.
This year’s award is being presented as part of the series of events
commemorating the Centennial Anniversary of the birth of Thomas Berry
(1914-2009).
Sarah
Dorsey, music librarian at UNC Greensboro, initiated a highly
successful environmental film series that has touched thousands of
students and members of the community. She oversees the community
sustainability listserve and was instrumental in revitalizing the local
Green Drinks evenings and much more.
This year, honorable mentions go to the Piedmont Land Conservancy, John P. and Lynda Cock, and Randal Scott Romie.
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