Architect and Architecture 2030 founder Edward Mazria was announced today as one of five recipients of The Purpose Prize, a $100,000 prize affectionately known as the “genius award for retirees.” It proudly claims to be the country’s only large-scale investment in social innovators in the second half of life. Funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies and the John Templeton Foundation, The Purpose Prize is a program of Civic Ventures’ Encore Careers campaign, which aims to engage millions of boomers in encore careers combining personal meaning, continued income and social impact in the second half of life.
Long committed to sustainable design, Mazria committed himself full-time to advocating for a more sustainable future through Architecture 2030, a nonprofit organization that he founded. Among other programs, the organization has staged several well-attended “Teach Ins” at design schools around the world, issued its “2030 Challenge” to the profession, and will soon be launching what it calls its “2030 Palette.” The Palette is described as “a set of comprehensive guiding principles, strategies and examples for creating healthy built environments that are tailored to specific environmental, social, economic and cultural conditions.”
Click hereto meet all five honorees of the 2011 Purpose Prize.
