Greengrants Welcomes New Advisors
We are pleased to welcome several new advisors to our expanding network of environmental activists around the world.
Chile: Travels in the Southern Reaches of a Long, Thin Country
Chile is a country known for its exceptional beauty—but tensions persist over natural resource development. Global Greengrants’ newest employee, Jessica Sherman, Development Associate, recently spent five months in southern Chile researching the region’s
Honduran Environmental Activists Murdered
On Dec. 20, 2006, two activists with the Environmental Movement of Olancho (MAO) were shot to death in the Honduran department of Olancho.
India: Bhopal — ‘The World’s Worst Industrial Disaster’
On December 3, 1984, thousands of people in Bhopal, India, were gassed to death after a catastrophic chemical leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant. According to the Council for Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi, more than 27 tons of methyl isocyanate and other deadly gases “turned the city into a gas chamber.” The […]
Greengrants Featured in the New York Times
Romanian grantee Alburnus Maior and Global Greengrants Fund featured on the front page of the Business Section of the New York Times on January 3, 2007, regarding the struggle of gold mining in a Transylvanian village.