CHANGE STARTS WHERE YOU STAND
Garth Owen-Smith, of Namibia, who won the Goldman Environmental Prize for Africa in 1993 with Dr. Margaret Jacobsohn for their pioneering work in community-based natural resource management, has died. He was 76. In the early 1980s, Owen-Smith and Jacobsohn, an anthropologist, began a lifelong effort to link wildlife conservation with the needs of the local…
By Jackie Krentzman Exposing Crisis at Love Canal In 1978, Lois Gibbs was a young mother with two young children living in Niagara Falls, New York, in a neighborhood called Love Canal. She began hearing reports of chemical waste being dumped nearby and discovered that her son’s elementary school was built on a toxic waste…
Dear friends and colleagues: Happy New Year to all. We hope that 2019 will be a year of victories and progress toward protecting our planet and restoring ecosystems that have been damaged by human activities. Here’s one victory to share with you: 2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the Goldman Environmental Prize. The Goldman family…
This blog is a guest post by the Green Belt Movement, an organization founded by Prize winner Wangari Maathai (Kenya, 1991) that empowers communities, especially women, to protect the environment. The Start of the Green Belt Movement In Africa, as in many parts of the world, rural women deal with multiple stresses as an integral part of…
Earlier this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a report on the effects of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup; a popular herbicide produced by biotech giant Monsanto. The report concluded that the chemical – even at small doses – is “probably carcinogenic to humans.” The Evidence Builds The WHO report isn’t the first…