Tag: Europe

VICTORY: Financing Dropped for Belgrade Waste Incinerator

Words by Pippa Gallop. Pippa is a research coordinator at CEE Bankwatch Network, the largest network of grassroots, environmental and human rights groups in central and eastern Europe. Based in Croatia, she specializes in monitoring coal and hydropower in the Western Balkans. In a recent win for activists in Belgrade, Serbia, the European Investment Bank […]

Celebrating the 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Congratulations to the 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize Recipients for their incredible leadership to protect both people and our shared planet! The Goldman Environmental Prize is a true honor, the world’s largest award honoring grassroots environmental activists. This year, at Global Greengrants Fund, we are particularly thrilled to acknowledge Prize winners Ana Colovic Lesoska and Jacqui […]

The Frontline Defenders of the Last Primeval Forest in Europe

“The half million acres of the Bialowieza Puszcza contain Europe’s last remaining fragment of old-growth, lowland wilderness. Think of the misty, brooding forest that loomed behind your eyelids when, as a child, someone read you the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales”. –Weisman, A. (2008). The world without us. London: Virgin Books. Situated between Poland and Belarus, […]

From Utopia to Eviction: The Zadists of Western France

How has one anarchist commune protected thousands of acres of land in France from environmental destruction? In 1965, the French government developed a plan to build a second airport in Notre-Dame-Des-Landes to serve the population of Western France. While the second, larger airport would encourage economic growth, the construction would also ultimately destroy 1,650 hectares […]

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