Environmental heroes. (Updates).Every year, the Goldman Foundation searches the globe for outstanding grassroots activists (see "Green Warriors," Currents, May/June 2001). Goldman Award winners receive a $125,000 cash stipend as well as honor and prestige. This year's Goldman winners include Odigha Odigha, a Nigerian forest activist and educator fighting to save the home of 2,400 local tribes as well as endangered gorillas and 20 percent of the world's butterfly population; Von Hernandez Von Hernandez is a a former literature professor and environmental activist from the Philippines. He has spoken up against the processing of imported garbage, when waste incinerators pump out clouds of dioxin and other harmful chemicals. , a passionate activist against waste incineration incineration the act of burning to ashes. in the Phillipines; Eileen Brown and Eileen Wingfield, aboriginal elders opposing a nuclear waste dump in South Australia's wild deserts; Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, a physicist and economics professor in Spain who fights damming and water diversion with conservation efforts; Maria Elena Foronda Farro, a sociologist leading a campaign to prevent Peru's fishmeal fish·meal n. A nutritive mealy substance produced from fish or fish parts and used as animal feed and fertilizer. fishmeal Noun ground dried fish used as feed for farm animals or as a fertilizer industry from releasing untreated waste; and Julia Bonds, a community leader fighting destructive mountaintop removal mining The examples and perspective in this subject are USA based and may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. in the Appalachians. Also receiving accolades are this year's recipients of the Heinz Environmental Award, presented in honor of the late Senator H. John Heinz III Henry John Heinz III (October 23, 1938 – April 4, 1991) was an American politician from Pennsylvania, a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives (1971–1977) and the United States Senate (1977–1991). . The winners are scientists John D. Spengler and Mario Molina. Spengler won for his pioneering work on indoor air pollution and Molina for his studies of ozone depletion and global warming. CONTACT: The Goldman Environmental Prize The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize given annually to grassroots environmental activists from six geographic areas: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. , www.goldmanprize.org; The Heinz Awards, www.heinzawards.net. |
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