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Solutionary Spotlight: 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

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2014 Goldman Environmental Prize winners

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We all need inspiration and motivation. We all need to believe that we can indeed change the world. This year’s Goldman Environmental Prize winners serve as both inspiration and reminder that each of us has a role to play in creating a just, sustainable world for all.

Each year the Goldman Environmental Prize, which is the world’s largest prize honoring grassroots environmentalists, recognizes six activists from around the world (one for each of the six inhabited continental regions) who have shown significant leadership in helping the environment and their communities. Here are the 2014 winners:

Desmond D’Sa/South Africa:
In his hometown of south Durban, which is surrounded by industrial-scale facilities — many of which release toxic chemicals, D’Sa led residents in a campaign to stop the expansion of a landfill for toxic waste, and eventually shut down the entire facility.

Ramesh Agrawal/India:
Agrawal helps rural villagers stay informed about energy projects that may affect their health and homes and helps them organize to oppose projects that can harm their communities. Agrawal was successful in helping stop a major coal mine project.

Suren Gazaryan/Russia:
Gazaryan worked with several environmental groups to help stop the illegal seizure and exploitation of federally protected forests that are home to many endangered plants and animals.

Rudi Putra/Indonesia:
Putra has been working to help dismantle illegal palm oil plantations in the northern Sumatra Leuser Ecosystem and to help rehabilitate the forests so that they can serve as critical wildlife habitat.

Helen Slottje/USA:
Slottje has used her legal skills to help communities in New York state use local zoning laws to ban fracking.

Ruth Buendía/Peru:
Buendía organized indigenous communities to help stop large-scale dam projects that would have displaced thousands of people.

 

Who’s your favorite environmental hero?


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