Goldman Environmental Prize Blog

Check out some of today’s press about the 2011 Goldman Environmental Prize: April 11, 2011 Major award for rhino conservationist BBC World Service April 11, 2011 Awards Season for Environmentalists New York Times April 11, 2011 Texan wins ‘Green Nobel’ for cleaning up hometown San Francisco Chronicle April 11, 2011 A decade-long fight for Port…

The day is finally here!  The Goldman Environmental Prize is pleased to announce the 2011 recipients.  Learn about each recipient by clicking on the links below. Raoul du Toit, Zimbabwe Dmitry Lisitsyn, Russia Ursula Sladek, Germany Prigi Arisandi, Indonesia Hilton Kelley, USA Francisco Pineda, El Salvador  

Just in time to help us celebrate the next group of amazing Goldman Environmental Prize recipients on Monday, KQED TV will air Global Focus VII – The New Environmentalists this Sunday, April 10 at 5pm.  In the coming weeks, both KQED (Bay Area) and KTEH (San Jose) will continue to air the program. Be sure…

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…

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…

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, 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…

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…