Sixteen years after the lawsuit was first filed by Ecuadoran residents of the Amazon rainforest against Texaco—now owned by Chevron—for polluting their lands and waters, the end is finally in sight. At stake is the largest damages award for an environmental case in history—more than $27 billion.
As reported in a recent Reuters article, the United Nations has announced a plan to rid the world of DDT by 2020.
Annie Leonard, one of the founders of Greengrants’ India Advisory Board and longtime member of the Greengrants network, is gaining fame for her video entitled ‘The Story of Stuff.’
According to Greengrants’ China Advisory Board Coordinator, “The new generation of Chinese youth activists is using the media to become more empowered and more effective. [Young people] use this new media to publicize, to network, to get connected with people.”
Longtime Greengrants donor and friend, Roy Young, owner of Nature’s Own stores across Colorado, has co-authored an article on the impacts of the horrendous practice of submarine tailings disposal in the March/April 2009 edition of World Watch Magazine.
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