Wen Bo, coordinator of Global Greengrants Fund’s China Advisory Board, recently was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, Asia edition and the International page of the U.S. edition. His work in pioneering student environmental networks has had a tremendous impact nationwide. The article cites Wen Bo’s position at “the forefront of […]
by Jessica Sherman, Greengrants Intern The story of the Tasaday people is a fascinating one, filled with intrigue and controversy. An indigenous people of the mountains of the South Cotabato Province of Mindanao in the Philippines, the Tasaday were officially “discovered” by the outside world in 1971. According to oral histories, the Tasaday fled to […]
by Michelle Wallar, Greengrants Intern Americans love bananas: banana splits, banana bread, banana smoothies, and just plain bananas. We import about 27 pounds annually for every American, according to Michael Jessen of AlterNet. And yet we often know little about the consequences of the pesticides used to grow bananas. The people who grow our bananas […]
by Jessica Sherman Fernando Chiyoc Albizures and MaytÌn Castellanos would be pleased to know about the progress their neighbors in Champerico have achieved since their murders in 2001. These two young men (ages 14 and 22) were killed in separate incidents protesting the actions of the shrimp farming company Camarones S.A. (Camarsa) when factory guards […]
by Brock McCarty, Greengrants Intern The rain forests of Papua New Guinea (PNG) are considered to be among the world’s richest in biological diversity. An estimated 700 distinct languages are spoken by its people, and 97 percent of its land is held in customary ownership by clans or kinship groups rather than individuals […]
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