La Oroya, Peru is home to the Doe Run smelter and is one of the world’s most contaminated cities. Thanks to community organizing efforts, the workers’ union has gone on strike to protest the mining company’s lack of transparency and accountability.
Grantee Ranjan Panda, head of the Indian conservation organization MASS, is heralded as a climate crusader for his work addressing desertification in Orissa.
A huge victory for the unique plants, animals, and communities of the Baja Peninsula has been achieved: Chevron has given up plans to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal near the Coronado Islands, off the coast of Baja Mexico.
In April 2007 Global Greengrants Fund will be making a public debut of global proportions. Our longtime donor, the Aveda Corporation, has selected Greengrants as their “Global Earth Month Partner”!
We are proud to announce that MarÂa Fernanda Espinosa, member of our Andes Advisory Board since 2001, has been named the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Ecuador.
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