Executive Director Terry Odendahl reports from India
Global Greengrants Fund’s Executive Director meets women and men affected by industrialization, mining, violence, and development in India. Here, she shares some thoughts and photos.
Firing up Canada’s indigenous rights movement
We talk about Canada’s indigenous rights and environmental justice movement with Corvin Russell, an indigenous rights activist in Toronto and an original organizer for Defenders of the Land, a Global Greengrants Fund grantee.
12 Top Global Greengrants Successes of 2012
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.
China Bans Deadly Herbicide Paraquat
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.
How Ecuador’s Sarayaku People Kept Big Oil Out
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.