Shortlist for LUSH Spring Prize 2023
73 projects from around the world have been shortlisted for the £236,000 Lush Spring Prize for environmental and social regeneration.
The 2023 Lush Spring Prize received over 350 applications. These were whittled down to a shortlist of 73 during midwinter 2022. Over 40 countries are represented in the final shortlist with applications from every continent except Antarctica.
The shortlist is diverse, covering multiple bioregions and demonstrating many different approaches to regenerative design and work. These can all be explored on the Spring Prize website.
2023 Prize categories
The 2023 Lush Spring Prize will award prizes across 4 different Spring Prize categories, plus two additional collaborative prizes:
- Intentional award
- Young award
- Established award
- Influence award
- Ancient and Indigenous Wisdom Award (collaborative) (Run in partnership with Be The Earth Foundation)
- Permaculture Magazine Award (collaborative) (Run in partnership with Permaculture Magazine)
The Ancient and Indigenous Wisdom Award and the Permaculture Magazine Award are separately funded and have their own judging panels. For each of these two awards, prize recipients share a prize fund of at least £10,000.