Highlights from the Greengrants Advisory Board Retreat
This past April, global and regional representatives of Greengrants’ network of advisors met in Amsterdam to share ideas, strategies and plans for the future.
Supporting the Grassroots in Tsunami Reconstruction and Global Coastal Protection
The Southeast Asia tsunami struck at the heart of many of the communities with which we work. Global Greengrants Fund is offering a way for donors to get contributions to grassroots organizations in affected areas.
Tuvalu: Protecting Vulnerable Coasts as Climate Changes
by Kim Lockrow, Global Greengrants Fund Intern For the people of Tuvalu, the threat of global climate change is already being felt as sea levels rise and storms gain in intensity, increasing coastal erosion and contaminating groundwater with salt. Some predict that the atoll, less than 15 feet at its highest point, could be unlivable […]
Honduras: Open Pit Mines Threaten San Andrés Communities
by Jessica Sherman, Greengrants Volunteer The villagers of the San Andrés area of western Honduras now know what a river of dead fish looks like. An estimated 18,000 fish were casualties of a cyanide spill by a gold mining company, Minerales de Occidente (MINOSA), in an incident at the San Andrés open-pit gold mine on […]
China: Wang Yongchen Wins Condé Nast Traveler Environmental Award
Wang Yongchen, co-founder of the Chinese organization Green Earth Volunteers, was awarded the 2004 Condé Nast Traveler Environmental Award in November. Wang, who is also a journalist, was recognized for her work in organizing an unprecedented public campaign against plans to build 13 dams on the Nu River. That campaign resulted in an April 2004 […]