Green Options » Goldman Environmental Prize http://greenoptions.com/tag/goldman-environmental-prize Posts tagged 'Goldman Environmental Prize' Tue, 12 May 2009 19:35:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Ashoka Fellows Awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/05/12/ashoka-fellows-awarded-the-goldman-environmental-prize/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/05/12/ashoka-fellows-awarded-the-goldman-environmental-prize/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 19:35:50 +0000 Amiel Blajchman http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/05/12/ashoka-fellows-awarded-the-goldman-environmental-prize/ Over the past 3 years, Ashoka fellows Yuyun Ismawati from Bali Fokus (Indonesia), Ignace Schops from Regionaal Landschap Kempen en Maasland (Belgium), and Orri Vigfusson from the North Atlantic Salmon Fund (Iceland) have won the Goldman Environmental Prize for innovative environmental work.

Incredibly prestigious, the Goldman Environmental Prize is considered the environmental Nobel Prize. It is the world’s largest prize honouring grassroots environmentalists. This trend of Ashoka Fellows winning the Goldman holds significance for both the Ashoka Foundation as well as the social entrepreneurship industry in general.

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/05/12/ashoka-fellows-awarded-the-goldman-environmental-prize/feed/ Hot Amazon Watch Lunch Party in San Francisco Tomorrow http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/10/29/hot-amazon-watch-lunch-party-in-san-francisco-tomorrow/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/10/29/hot-amazon-watch-lunch-party-in-san-francisco-tomorrow/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:15:04 +0000 Lucille Chi http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/10/29/hot-amazon-watch-lunch-party-in-san-francisco-tomorrow/ The mission of Amazon Watch is: “to work with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples’ rights in the face of large-scale industrial development-oil and gas pipelines, power lines, roads, and other mega-projects.”


If you work in San Francisco and want to take an inspirational lunch break tomorrow, pounce on over to the Amazon Watch Celebration Luncheon from 12 noon - 1:30 pm at the Green Room, War Memorial Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Avenue, Second Floor. Entry is complimentary, but just to be sure call and reserve a spot: 415-487-9600. The hour and a half lunch will celebrate recent victories in the Amazon and protecting the wildlife and indigenous peoples inhabit it. Luis Yanza (the Goldman Environmental Prize winner from Ecuador) will be speaking.

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