Category: Spotlights

Deadly Dunes: The Risks of Standing Up for Justice in Pondoland, South Africa

Welcome to Pondoland, South Africa’s least economically developed region. What the region lacks in infrastructure, it makes up for in natural resources. Ecologists have named the region the Pondoland Center for Plant Endemism, home to many species found nowhere else in the world. While beautiful, Pondoland is also home to violence and strife. Transworld Mining, […]

Turn Back the Dial: Community Radio and Water in Oaxaca, Mexico

dial back To lessen something, especially in intensity “To dial back the impacts of climate change, our grantees in Pinotepa, Mexico started a community radio program!” Water and climate change are inextricably linked. Humans need water to survive, yet rising global temperatures and a changing climate threaten access to clean water, increase the likelihood of […]

Women for Environmental Justice: Terry Odendahl

Climate change is one of the most pressing threats humanity has ever faced, and to address the warming world and devastating impacts it it clear that we need each and every person on Earth to act now. Women are essential in this fight, as they experience climate change in unique ways, and offer an important […]

Activism Around the World: Highlights from February 2020

By Julia Woods, Communications Specialist We’re bringing back an old favorite, grant stories of the month! Here at Global Greengrants Fund, we are committed to supporting grassroots activists in their efforts to protect our shared planet and work toward a more equitable world. With over 1,000 grants awarded each year, there’s never a shortage of […]

Inside the Movement to Protect Chilean Rivers

In an op-ed recently published in The New York Times, the authors, members of the Greengrants family, state, “If we are to arrest global climate change, prevent the toxifying of freshwater sources and do right by all those who depend on rivers for survival, we must return more rivers to their natural state.” The authors […]

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