Goldman Environmental Prize Blog

Susie Gelman, Richard and Rhoda Goldman’s daughter, spent last week visiting 2001 Goldman Prize winner Eugene Rutagarama in Rwanda. Rutagarama was awarded the prize for his outstanding work with mountain gorilla conservation. Today, Rutagarama works for the International Gorilla Conservation Program, building ecotourism, monitoring the mountain gorillas and building relationships with the communities near the…

Casa Pueblo, the community-based organization founded by 2002 Prize winner Alexis Massol-Gonzalez from Puerto Rico, is engaged in a heated campaign against a proposed natural gas pipeline project. Casa Pueblo and other opponents of the pipeline say that the project will threaten the island nation’s unique environmental and cultural resources. The campaign is gaining US…

The Goldman Environmental Foundation regrets to inform you that a colleague of 2011 winner Francisco Pineda, an activist from the Environmental Committee of Cabañas, has been killed. Juan Francisco Duran, a 30 year old university student, was last seen hanging anti-mining fliers on the night of June 2nd.  His body was found on June 14th…

How much are you willing to donate to environmental conservation? A few hours of your time? A few dollars from your pocket? How about your home and all of the property it sits on? That is exactly what 1990 Goldman Prize winner Bob Brown of Australia did on June 15. Brown donated his picturesque white…

2008 Goldman Prize winner Ignace Schops received an honorary doctorate from the University of Hasselt, Belgium, for international achievement for biodiversity and social entrepreneurship featured by cooperation and sustainable development. Ignace had this to say about the honor: “The University of Hasselt gives honorary doctorates to people who achieved something with a broad impact and…

Congratulations to Mill Valley Film Group on winning an Emmy for the series Global Focus VII –The New Environmentalists. MVFG took home the Emmy this past Saturday at the gala award ceremony in San Francisco. The series won for the Public/Current/Community Affairs – Program/Special category. The Global Focus series also won an Emmy in 2008-2009.…

The Green Belt Movement was founded by 1991 Goldman Prize winner Wangari Maathai, who also received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for her environmental activism in Kenya. Please join us in congratulating Stephen Mills, formerly the International Programs Director of the Sierra Club, on his new position as the Director of the Green Belt Movement – US Office. Stephen…

How far would you go to protect your home, your livelihood and your community? Robert F Kennedy Jr. joins Goldman Prize winner Maria Gunnoe (2009) in fighting on the front lines against mountaintop removal in Gunnoe’s Appalachian community. Take an in-depth look into her struggle with the powerful new film The Last Mountain. The Last…

Why should you scare wild elephants? In order to save them! Congratulations to Tuy Sereivathana. The 2010 Goldman Prize winner from Cambodia has been awarded the 2011 National Geographic Emerging Explorers Award for his ground-breaking elephant conservation methods. Check out the video below to see how Sereivathana’s work has helped save his country’s elephants.

Goldman Prize winners Hilton Kelley (2011) and Maria Gunnoe (2009) spent Memorial Day weekend at the Mountainfilm festival in Telluride, Colorado. Mountainfilm has been “Celebrating the Indomitable Spirit” for 32 years, and is dedicated to shedding light on important issues, cultures, and ideas all over the world. Kelley and Gunnoe were showcased at this year’s…