Tag: Local Livelihoods

Tune In: What to Add to Your Reading List (Part II)

It’s July. And here at our headquarters in the northern hemisphere that means that we’re smack dab in the middle of summer. Days are hot, and our cravings for popsicles and beach reads are the strongest they’ve been all year. For those looking for a little more insight from your reading material this season, look […]

Activism around the World: Highlights from July 2017

Each year Global Greengrants Fund makes over 800 grants to environmental activists around the world, helping to support grassroots initiatives to protect the planet and the rights of the people who call these natural places home. Here are three exciting projects we’ve supported this month. Democratic Republic of the Congo: “A Girl and a Tree” […]

Our Future is in their Hands

Imagine a place where every day the sky is grey and overcast. No sun peeking through, no blue tint of any kind – just one uniformly grey cloud hanging heavy over the land below. That place exists. Eight months out of the year, the city of Lima, Peru is shrouded by a grey sky, fondly, […]

Recycled Bottles, Go Pro Cameras, and Coral Reef Restoration in Kalapaun, Malaysia

It’s no secret that coral reefs around the world are at risk due to the impacts of rising seas, climate change, and human-caused impacts, such as overfishing. Today, an estimated 25 percent of coral reefs around the world have already disappeared, and two-thirds are at risk. In Southeast Asia, home to the most biodiverse reefs […]

Global Greengrants Fund Called World’s Fourth Top Human Rights Funder in New Report

What comes to mind when you think of human rights? The right to life? Freedom? Fairness? By definition human rights belong to every person and include basic rights to air, water, and life, regardless of which country a person calls home. Out of the some 800 community projects Global Greengrants Fund supports annually, those defined […]

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