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Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Orri Vigfússon on Saving Global Salmon...
This is the first in a series of interviews with previous winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize. Founded in 1990, the prize is given annually to six grassroots environmentalists working for...
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Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Julio Cusurichi Palacios on Saving People...
All photos by Tom Dusenbery. This is one in a series of interviews with previous winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize. Founded in 1990, the prize is given annually to six grassroots...
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Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Silas Kpanan'Ayoung Siakor on Exposing...
This is the third in a series of interviews with previous winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize. Founded in 1990, the prize is given annually to six grassroots environmentalists working for...
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Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Anne Kajir of Papua New Guinea
This is one in a series of profiles of previous winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize. Founded in 1990, the prize is given annually to six grassroots environmentalists working for change around...
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Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Yu Xiaogang on Hydropower and Community in...
This is the last in a series of interviews with previous winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize. Founded in 1990, the prize is given annually to six grassroots environmentalists working for change...
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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...
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2008 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Pablo Fajardo Mendoza and Luis Yanza...
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...
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2008 Goldman Prize Winner Jesus Leon Santos on Bringing Desert Lands Back to...
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...
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Not your Typical Grandma -- An Interview with Goldman Environmental Prize...
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...
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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...
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2008 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Ignace Schops on Creating Belgium's...
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...
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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...
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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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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...
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Water Woes Unsolved 11 Years After People's 'Triumph' Over Privatization in...
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 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,...
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Goldman Prize Winner Francisco Pineda Risks His Life to Battle Gold Mining...
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...
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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...
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Woman Rallies German Community to Take Over Power Grid, Fight Nuclear and...
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...
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Russian Mother Takes On Government, Powerful Interests to Save Moscow's...
"The proposed road is not so much just the road, as a larger land grab."
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