In our latest Q&A, 2017 Prize winner Wendy Bowman shares about her work with the Hunter Environment Lobby in her fight against the expansion of coal mining at her farm, Rosedale, and within the larger community of Hunter Valley. Where you were born? How did you find your way to the farm? I was born…
This is a guest blog by Goldman Prize Program Officer Lindsey Freedman, who recounts her first meetings with 2017 Goldman Prize winner Uroš Macerl. Macerl is an organic farmer from Slovenia who successfully stopped a Lafarge cement kiln from co-incinerating toxic petcoke (a byproduct of oil refining) and hazardous industrial waste by rallying legal support…
In the Q&A below, we catch up with 2017 Goldman Prize winner Uroš Macerl, an organic farmer from Slovenia who successfully stopped a Lafarge cement kiln from co-incinerating petcoke with hazardous industrial waste by rallying legal support from fellow Eko Krog activists and leveraging his status as the only citizen allowed to challenge the plant’s…
For the past three years, the Goldman Environmental Foundation has provided support for Goldman Prize winners to participate in leadership opportunities through the foundation’s networking program. The program was designed to help support Prize winner initiatives by providing funding for Prize winners to attend conferences and events, participate on panels, present as keynote speakers, and…
The Mill Valley Film Festival returns to the Bay Area next month from October 5-15. The festival will be screening the latest installment of the Emmy Award-winning series, “The New Environmentalists: From Guatemala to The Congo,” which showcases the work of the 2017 Goldman Environmental Prize winners. Robert Redford narrates this annual tribute to six passionate environmental…
This is a guest blog from Program Officer Ryan Mack about his journey to meet 2017 Goldman Prize winner Rodrigo Tot in Eastern Guatemala. An indigenous leader in Guatemala’s Agua Caliente, Rodrigo Tot led his community to a landmark court decision that ordered the government to issue land titles to the Q’eqchi people and kept environmentally destructive nickel…
In the Q&A below, we get to know more about 2017 Goldman Prize winner Rodrigo Tot, an indigenous leader in Guatemala’s Agua Caliente. Tot led his community to a landmark court decision that ordered the government to issue land titles to the Q’eqchi people and kept environmentally destructive nickel mining from expanding into his community. …
Program officer Myriah Cornwell recounts the first time she met 2017 Goldman Prize winner Rodrigue Katembo on a site visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Katembo went undercover to document and release information about bribery and corruption in the quest to drill for oil in Virunga National Park, resulting in public outrage that forced…
Before winning the Prize, we had the opportunity to chat with Rodrigue Katembo, 2017 Prize winner from Africa. Putting his life on the line, Katembo went undercover to document and release information about bribery and corruption in the quest to drill for oil in Virunga National Park, resulting in public outrage that forced the company to withdraw…
The Goldman Prize mourns the loss of 2007 Goldman Prize winner Orri Vigfusson, who passed away on July 1, 2017 after a battle with lung cancer. Orri was nearly 75 years old. Ten years ago Orri was awarded the Goldman Prize for brokering huge international fishing rights buyouts with governments and corporations in the North Atlantic, effectively…