Awards and Honors
Joseph Bharat Cornell
Awards and Honors Include:
- Countess Sonja-Bernadotte Prize: Way of Nature, German Horticulture Society
- Honorary Doctorate of Environmental Stewardship, Unity College, Maine
- 100 Guardian Angles of the Planet: Les Anges Gardiens de la Planete, France
- Named: global “Opinion Maker for the Environment”
- Honorary Member Award, Hungarian Society of Environmental Education - Environment Award, Thorne Ecological Institute
- Founders List for Environmental Education, Utah Society for EE
- How Bell Award, Association for Environmental & Outdoor Education
- Nominated, Right Livelihood Award (1982)
- Certificate of Professional Appreciation, Western Interpreters Association
- Honorary President of Sharing Nature Japan and Sharing Nature China
- Board of Advisors, Children & Nature Network
Media Appearances Include:
BBC Television with Sir Peter Scott
BBC Natural History Radio, Bristol, England
City Extra, with Carolyn Jones, Sydney, Australia
Good Morning LA
National Taiwan Radio
KGO Radio, San Francisco
BBC Television with Sir Peter Scott
BBC Natural History Radio, Bristol, England
City Extra, with Carolyn Jones, Sydney, Australia
Good Morning LA
National Taiwan Radio
KGO Radio, San Francisco
Keynote Addresses Include:
John Denver’s Windstar Symposium China Nature Education Forum National Council of Churches, USA World Scouts, Geneva, Switzerland Scottish Natural Heritage Japan Environmental Education Forum New South Wales Department of Education, Australia Grand Canyon, Denali, Yellowstone, Yosemite National Parks University of Tokyo International Camping Congress, Toronto, Canada Alberta Department of Education, Canada Nature Conservation Academy, Central Europe Conference, Germany New Zealand Association for Environmental Education Conference Greece Department of Education, Northern Region Ecotourism Guides of Brazil Summer Arts Institute, Indiana Hungarian Society for Environmental Education |
Book Awards:
Cornell has written twelve nature awareness books, which have been translated in twenty-five foreign languages; sixty-seven editions of his books have been published in other countries, with over one million copies sold.
Cornell has written twelve nature awareness books, which have been translated in twenty-five foreign languages; sixty-seven editions of his books have been published in other countries, with over one million copies sold.
Sharing Nature
Winner, Silver Nautilus Award in the Animals & Nature category Winner, Grand Prize: Indie Book Awards in the Non-Fiction category Winner, Indie Book Award in the Science/Nature/Environment category Winner, Indie Book Award in the Parenting/Family category Winner, Silver Evergreen Medal in the Nature Conservation category Winner, Green Book Festival Award in the How-To category Listening to Nature
Winner, Book of the Year Izaak Walton League: Pewter Gold Ink Award John Muir: My Life with Nature
Winner, ASPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Award: Non-Fiction Humane Heroes Excellent Book: South Korea Environmental Department |
Sharing Nature with Children
Selected by U.S. Wildlife Service as one of the fifteen most influential books published since 1890 for connecting children and families to nature. Best Book Award: Ministry of Environment, South Korea Earthworm Award: Friends of the Earth Children’s Book Award, UK The Sky and Earth Touched Me
Winner, Grand Prize for Non-Fiction, Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner, for Science/Nature/Environment category, Indie Book Awards Gold Medal Winner for Best Environment/Ecology/Nature Book, IPPY Book Awards Winner, for Spiritual category, Green Book Festival |
Sharing the Joy of Nature
Best Book Award: Ministry of Environment, South Korea
Third Place Book Award: National Association for Interpreters
First Place Video Award: National Association for Interpreters
Best Book Award: Ministry of Environment, South Korea
Third Place Book Award: National Association for Interpreters
First Place Video Award: National Association for Interpreters