You know we always say your support makes a difference? As 2012 comes to a close, we’d like to share 12 of Global Greengrants Fund’s top success stories from the past year. Here are just some of the victories we celebrated in 2012.
Several years ago, Sun Jing and other members of the Pesticide Eco-Alternatives Center in China learned that local farmers were mysteriously falling ill and dying. They suspected this had something to do with an herbicide called paraquat that farmers were using. The farmers had no idea what a deadly chemical they were handling every day. There was little research and no warning label.
Some 1,200 indigenous people make up the Sarayaku community in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In 1996, the Ecuadorian government allowed a foreign company to begin prospecting their lands for oil. The government never consulted the local people. >>Keep reading.
Trucks shoveling sand from main streets. Children wading through the sludge that used to be their living rooms. As I took in the reports from friends and news media on Hurricane Sandy, I began to realize that we have entered a new era. This is not Indonesia, or the island of Tuvalu. This is New York City.
What can we learn from this? What do we need to know about this new era? Listen closely, and you might hear Sandy speak. Keep reading.>>
“Nnimmo Bassey links human rights to the climate by demonstrating how climate change has the greatest effect on the world’s most vulnerable people, the very people who have contributed least to the problem in the first place. By awarding its annual prize to Nnimmo Bassey, the Rafto Foundation underlines how the challenges we face regarding climate and the environment also have a human rights aspect.”
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