Tag: Goldman Environmental Prize

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  Ma Jun Takes on Technology, Apparel Industries and Chinese Government to Fight Factory Pollution

  Though they have no regulatory authority, Jun and IPE have managed to get more than 500 companies to publicly disclose plans to reduce pollution, including some of the world's biggest brands—Wal-Mart, Nike, GE, Coca Cola, H&M, Sony, and Unilever.

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  Turkana Woman Fights Ethiopia, Kenya Dam Project in the Already Arid, Conflict-Prone Region

  "The Ministry of Energy has insisted that they need this energy. What we are questioning is—how was the agreement reached, what is the cost of purchasing this power?"

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  TreeHugger Interviews the Philippine Mine-Stopping, Goldman Prize-Winning "Father Edu"

  "The mining companies were telling us that it's safe... We did our research and discovered they were lying through their teeth."

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  Russian Mother Takes On Government, Powerful Interests to Save Moscow's Lungs, the Khimki Forest

  "The proposed road is not so much just the road, as a larger land grab."

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  Woman Rallies German Community to Take Over Power Grid, Fight Nuclear and Coal Energy

  When the Chernobyl disaster struck 25 years ago, Ursula Sladek, a woman from the small community of Schönau in Germany's Black Forest, was sparked to action. She started what would become a decades-long, nationwide

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  Zimbabwean Man Awarded for Saving Rhinos in Southern Africa (Interview)

  Today is day three in our series of interviews with 2011 Goldman Prize recipients. Raoul du Toit began working on rhino conservation as a Program Officer for the International Union for Conservation of Nature's African Elephant and

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  Goldman Prize Winner Francisco Pineda Risks His Life to Battle Gold Mining Operation

  The Goldman Environmental Prize for South America this year went to a man who has so far been able to stop a Canadian company from coming in to mine gold (a toxic, ecologically destructive process) in El Salvador.

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  Goldman Environmental Prize Awards $150K to Clean Air Activism on the Gulf Coast

  This year's North American recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize has been spending more than a decade working in his Texas Gulf Coast community to fight for stronger environmental regulations, better

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  Water Woes Unsolved 11 Years After People's 'Triumph' Over Privatization in Cochabamba, Bolivia

  When poor Bolivians rose up against the privatization of their water system, taking to the streets to demand -- successfully -- that it be returned to local control, their fight

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  Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Open Up in Exclusive Interviews

  Seven winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize will be honored tonight in Washington, D.C., for their grassroots activism across five continents. TreeHugger writer Jaymi Heimbuch sat down with some of the winners

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  2009 Goldman Environmental Prize Honors Grassroots Leaders

  The Goldman Environmental Prize may not get the same coverage as some more famous awards, but its recipients are no less influential—in fact, many of them go on to elected office (or to

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  12 Warriors, Adventurers With Really Loud Green Messages

  There are some powerful voices that have paved the way for us here at TreeHugger. Voices that rose above the chatter and made huge waves, felt around the world. Many of these voices come from people are close

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  2008 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Ignace Schops on Creating Belgium's First National Park

  If it wasn't for Ignace Schops, one of the seven winners of the 2008 Goldman Environmental Prize, Belgium may have lost much of its natural habitat. A herpetologist, Schops studies amphibians and reptiles and has worked in the field since 1990. With

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  Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Marina Rikhanova

  Marina Rikhvanova, Co-chairwoman of the NGO Baikal Environmental Wave, was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for Asia for her on-going achievements in the protection of Lake Baikal, the "pearl of Siberia," in Russia. Founded in 1990, the prize is

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  Not your Typical Grandma -- An Interview with Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Rosa Hilda Ramos

  Rosa Hilda Ramos is a 63-year-old grandmother, environmental activist, and one of the recipients of the 2008 Goldman Prize, recognizing grassroots environmental heroes. Ramos mobilized her community to legally

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  2008 Goldman Prize Winner Jesus Leon Santos on Bringing Desert Lands Back to Life

  Photo credit: Will Parrinello and Jim Iacona. In a time when "modern" agriculture is depleting many areas of Latin America as farmers seek higher yields, Jesus Leon Santos is taking the opposite route. He is using ancient agriculture systems and

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  2008 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Pablo Fajardo Mendoza and Luis Yanza on their Fight Against Oil Giants

  It’s difficult to imagine the courage it takes to go against a huge corporation. Worse, an oil giant like Chevron. But Pablo Fajardo Mendoza and Luis Yanza are not afraid: They are convinced Ecuador and its people deserve a clean Amazon, and their

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  2008 Goldman Prize Lauds International Grassroots Environmentalists

  Feliciano dos Santos accepts the Ouroboros trophy from Richard Goldman at the 2008 Goldman Prize ceremony held earlier this month in San Francisco. A second ceremony was held in Washington, D.C. The following post was written by Claire Alexander, vice