Prize recipients tour Tasmania’s threatened forests
Goldman Prize recipients Bob Brown (Australia, 1990), a Green Party leader, and Anna Giordano (Italy, 1998) met up in Bob’s home state of Tasmania to discuss conservation.
Sundance Film Fest pic “The Last Mountain” features Maria Gunnoe (’09)
Recently featured at the Sundance Film Festival, The Last Mountain sheds light the mountaintop removal coal mining debate in the US. Goldman Prize recipient Maria Gunnoe (’09) a tireless activist featured in the film, has been fighting to protect both the land and her unique Appalachian culture from mining destruction. Scheduled to hit theatres in…
The Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund announces its closure
Following the death of Goldman Environmental Prize founder Richard Goldman in November 2010, plans about the future of his two organizations were announced today. The Goldman Environmental Prize will continue its normal operations while the Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund will close its doors in December 2012. Below is a joint statement released today by…
Judy Bonds – In memoriam
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Julia “Judy” Bonds, a charismatic and tireless leader in the fight against mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. Judy won the Goldman Prize in 2003 and will be remembered as one of the most important grassroots leaders speaking out against destructive mining practices. She…
Global Focus VII Premieres on PBS
Global Focus VII, a 30-minute documentary television program featuring the 2010 Goldman Prize recipients, will begin its broadcast run on San Francisco Bay Area PBS affiliate KQED this coming week before it airs throughout the country on other PBS stations. The program airs on November 22 and again on November 26 at 7:30pm. Be sure…
CNN’s “African Voices” profiles Feliciano dos Santos
Feliciano dos Santos (Mozambique, 2008) is the subject of the most recent African Voices program on CNN International. In the piece, Santos discusses his successful music career with his band, Massukos, and his work in helping communities in the poorest region of Mozambique with sanitation and infrastructure projects. Click the image above to watch the…
Indigenous Colombian Prize winner visits the US to build support for Amazon protection
Gilberto Cobaría, President of the Association of the U’Wa (L) and Berito Kuwaru’wa Cobaría, 1998 Goldman Prize winner (R) outside of the Goldman Prize offices in San Francisco Goldman Prize winner Berito Kuwaru’wa Cobaría, an U’Wa spiritual elder, visited the Prize offices in San Francisco today to update us on their recent victories and challenges…
Lynn Henning makes Oprah’s 2010 Power List
Lynn Henning (USA, 2010) was included in O Magazine’s 2010 Power List, an honor she shares with veteran journalist Diane Sawyer, film star Julia Roberts, fashion designer Vera Wang, and other important women making a difference or emerging as leaders in their fields. Henning was interviewed by Erin Brockovich for the magazine, which hits newsstands…
Microsoft implicated in Russian crackdown on political dissent
In a New York Times investigative report released yesterday, Microsoft was implicated in the recent increase in Russian police seizures of computers and documents from civil society groups on grounds of suspected software piracy. Marina Rikhvanova’s (Russia, 2008) organization, Baikal Environmental Wave, was featured prominently in the article, which provided insight into the January police…
Bangladesh Supreme Court Sides with Rizwana Hasan
Despite intense objection by shipbreaking yard owners, the Supreme Court once again asserted its position requiring all ships coming to Bangladesh for dismantling to be pre-cleaned of all toxic materials prior to entering Bangladesh’s waters. Rizwana Hasan (Bangladesh, 2009) and her organization, BELA, have led this and other legal cases advocating for the health and…