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| x Roland Clift | Sustainability | Person |
Roland Clift, CBE is a chemical engineering professor widely known for his work and media contributions on the topic of sustainability.
Clift was born 19 November 1942 and studied Chemical Engineering at Cambridge (Trinity College), achieving first...
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Nancy Anne Allen (born June 24, 1950) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress and cancer activist.
Allen began an acting and modelling career as a child, and from the mid-1970s appeared in small film roles, most notably the anchor of Robert...
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Environmentalism | Person |
Oral Ataniyazova (Russian: Орал Атаниязова) is an obstetrician and medical scientist from Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan. She is the director of Perzent, the Karakalpak Center for Reproductive Health and Environment. She was awarded the Goldman...
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| x Wang Canfa | Environmentalism | Person |
Wang Canfa (simplified Chinese: 王灿发; traditional Chinese: 王燦發; pinyin: Wáng Cànfā) is a Chinese professor at the China University of Political Science and Law, and the founder and director of the Beijing-based Center for Legal Assistance to...
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| x Pisit Charnsnoh | Environmentalism | Person |
Pisit Charnsnoh from the Trang Province, Thailand, cofounded the Yadfon Association in 1985. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2002, for his efforts on protecting the coastal ecosystems of Thailand. Charnsnoh is on the board of the...
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| x Alexandra Cousteau | Environmentalism | Person |
Alexandra Marguerite Clémentine Cousteau (born March 21, 1976) is the daughter of Philippe Cousteau and the granddaughter of world famous French explorer and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau. A dedicated environmentalist, Cousteau advocates the...
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| x Peter Cullen | Environmentalism | Person |
Professor Peter Cullen AO FTSE, MAgrSc, DipEd (Melb), Hon DUniv (Canb), (born 18 May 1943, Melbourne, Victoria; died 14 March 2008, Canberra) was a leading Australian water scientist.
The son of an engineer, Cullen got his start as a water expert...
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| x Loir Botor Dingit | Environmentalism | Person |
Loir Botor Dingit (d. 2005) was a rattan farmer and Paramount Chief from Indonesia. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1997 for his efforts on forest protection.
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| x Nike Doggart |
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Environmentalism | Person |
Nike Doggart is a conservationist, environmental activist, and writer.
Doggart, MA, MSc, was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and at University College, London. Doggart began her career as a marine conservationist in Belize. Her research work in...
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| x Don Julio Garcia Agapito | Environmentalism | Person |
Don Julio Gualberto Garcia Agapito was a Peruvian environmentalist who was murdered on February 26, 2008 after reporting a shipment of illegally harvested mahogony in Peru. Don Julio was Lieutenant Governor of the town of Alerta in the Tahuamanu...
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| x Corneille Ewango | Environmentalism | Person |
Corneille Ewango is a Congolese environmentalist, and was responsible for the Okapi Faunal Reserve's botany program in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1996 to 2003. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2005 for his efforts to...
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| x Hu Jia |
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Hu Jia (Chinese: 胡佳; pinyin: Hú Jiā; original name 胡嘉, Hú Jiā; born July 25, 1973, in Beijing) is an activist and dissident in the People's Republic of China. His work has focused on the Chinese democracy movement, Chinese environmentalist movement,...
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| x Lindsay Hunt | Environmentalism | Person |
Lindsay Hunt is a South African hunter turned conservationist who played an important role in a project to produce Cape Buffalo breeding stock free of bovine tuberculosis and foot-and-mouth disease. This project has resulted in the establishing of...
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| x Noah Idechong | Environmentalism | Person |
Noah Idechong is an environmental activist from Palau, and former chief of Palau's Division of Marine Resources. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1995 for his efforts in marine conservation. Idechong currently serves as Speaker of...
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| x Fatima Jibrell |
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Environmentalism | Person |
Fatima Jibrell (Somali: Fadumo Jibriil, Arabic: فاطمة جبريل) is a prominent Somali-American environmental activist. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Horn of Africa Relief and Development Organization ("Horn Relief"), co-founder...
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| x Kory Johnson | Environmentalism | Person |
Kory Johnson is an American environmentalist from Arizona.
In 1991, while still a young girl, Johnson led a successful effort by Children for a Safe Environment to stop a hazardous waste dump being built in her local area. In 1996 she joined...
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| x Anne Kajir | Environmentalism | Person |
Anne Kajir is an attorney from Papua New Guinea. She has uncovered evidence of widespread corruption in the Papua New Guinea government, that allowed illegal logging in tropical forests. Kajir was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2006.
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| x Donald Knaack |
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Environmentalism | Person |
Donald Knaack is an American percussionist. He currently performs-on and composes-for recycled materials exclusively.
His album Junk Music was nominated for a Grammy award and he has played in many prominent venues worldwide, including Lincoln...
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| x Yoichi Kuroda | Environmentalism | Person |
Yoichi Kuroda (黒田 洋一) is a Japanese environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1991 for his campaign against Japan's irresponsible use of tropical hardwoods.
He was founder of the activist organization Japan Tropical Forest...
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| x Samuel LaBudde | Environmentalism | Person |
Samuel LaBudde is an American biologist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1991 for his efforts on preserving wildlife and endangered species.
His videotaping of the practice of slaughtering dolphins by tuna fishermen resulted in a...
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| x Jadwiga Lopata | Environmentalism | Person |
Jadwiga Lopata, is an organic farmer living near Cracow, Poland. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2002, for her works on rural protection. She is co-founder and co-director of the International Coalition to Protect the Polish...
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| x Wangari Maathai |
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Environmentalism | Person |
Wangari Muta Maathai (1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) was a Kenyan environmental and political activist. She was educated in the United States at Mount St. Scholastica and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as the University of Nairobi in Kenya...
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| x Juan Mayr | Environmentalism | Person |
Juan Mayr Maldonado (born 27 May 1952) is a Colombian photographer and environmentalist currently serving as Ambassador of Colombia to Germany. From 1993 to 1996, Mayr was elected vice-president of the World Conservation Union. In 1998 he became...
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| x Mahesh Chandra Mehta | Environmentalism | Person |
Mahesh Chandra Mehta (born October 12, 1946) is a public interest attorney from India. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1996 for his continuous fights in Indian courts against pollution-causing industries. He received the Ramon...
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| x Olya Melen | Environmentalism | Person |
Olya Melen is a Ukrainian attorney and environmental activist. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2006 for her use of legal channels to halt the construction of the Danube-Black Sea Canal. The Danube Delta at the coast of the Black...
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| x Vera Mischenko | Environmentalism | Person |
Vera Mischenko is a Russian attorney. She introduced the concept of public interest environmental law in Russia and in 1991 co-founded Ecojuris, Russia's first public interest law firm. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2000.
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| x Josip Movcan | Environmentalism | Person |
Josip Movčan, B.Sc. / Forestry (born on February 9, 1925, Čakovec, Croatia)
Mr. Movčan studied forestry at the University of Sopron in Hungary, Department of Forestry. Later he graduated at the Zagreb University, Department of Forestry. He...
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| x Robert Nadeau | Environmentalism | Person |
Robert Lee Nadeau (born 1944) is an American Professor of English at George Mason University. His recent research focuses on integration between economic and environmental thinking.
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| x Oliver Tickell |
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Environmentalism | Person |
Oliver Tickell is a British journalist, author and campaigner on health and environment issues, and author of the Kyoto2 climate initiative, supported by a website. He is the son of Sir Crispin Tickell, the environmentalist and former diplomat.
In...
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| x Alexander Louis Peal | Environmentalism | Person |
Alexander Louis Peal is a Liberian forester and conservationist who won the prestigious international Goldman Environmental Prize in 2000 for his efforts to protect and preserve the biodiversity and natural heritage of his home country. Peal,...
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| x Bruno Van Peteghem | Environmentalism | Person |
Bruno Van Peteghem (New Caledonia) was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2001, for his campaign to place the island's coral reef (among the world's largest and most unusual) on UNESCO's World Heritage List in order to protect the reef...
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| x John Picard | Environmentalism | Person |
John Picard (born 25 March 1957) is an architect, builder, entrepreneur as well as a renowned building efficiency and sustainability expert. He is currently the founder and CEO of John Picard & Associates, an environmental and sustainability...
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| x Greg Reitman | Environmentalism | Person |
Greg Reitman is a professional speaker, author (ISBN 0-615-13444-0), published by Post Card USA, activist filmmaker and film producer/director from Los Angeles, California, and the founder of Blue Water Entertainment, Inc. an independent production...
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| x Marc van Roosmalen | Environmentalism | Person |
Dr. Marc van Roosmalen (born 24 July 1947, Tilburg) is a Brazilian primatologist of Dutch birth living in Manaus in Brazil. He was elected as one of the "Heroes of the Planet" by Time Magazine in 2000. His research has led to the identification of...
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| x Jean La Rose | Environmentalism | Person |
Jean La Rose is an indigenous Arawak from Georgetown, Guyana. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2002 for her struggles to halt mining in their territories, to secure inhabitants full rights to traditional lands, and to save Guyana's...
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| x Stephanie Danielle Roth | Environmentalism | Person |
Stephanie Danielle Roth is a French and Swiss citizen, former researcher and editor of the magazine The Ecologist. She received the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2005 for her efforts to stop construction of Europe's largest open cast gold mine in...
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| x Ken Saro-Wiwa |
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Environmentalism | Person |
Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro Wiwa (October 10, 1941 – November 10, 1995) was a Nigerian author, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize. Saro-Wiwa was a member of the...
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| x Simran Sethi | Environmentalism | Person |
Simran Preeti Sethi (born October 12, 1970 in Munich, Germany) is an Emmy award-winning Indian American journalist and associate professor at the University of Kansas.
Sethi began her media career in 1993 as a documentary producer for MTV News. In...
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| x Jonathon Solomon | Environmentalism | Person |
Jonathon Solomon (March 10, 1932 – July 13, 2006) was a native Gwich'in from Fort Yukon, Alaska, USA, and a member of the U.S. delegation to the International Porcupine Caribou Agreement between Canada and U.S. He served as the Traditional Chief of...
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| x Terri Swearingen | Environmentalism | Person |
Terri Swearingen is a nurse from the state of Ohio.
She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1997, for organizing the protests against Waste Technologies Industries toxic waste incinerator in the Appalachian town of East Liverpool, Ohio....
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| x JoAnn Tall | Environmentalism | Person |
JoAnn Tall is an environmental activist of the Oglala Lakota tribe who has worked to ensure the people have a chance to approve major projects for energy development. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1993 for her protests against...
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| x Yosef Tamir |
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Environmentalism | Person |
Yosef Tamir (Hebrew: יוסף תמיר, 5 March 1915 – 10 August 2009) was an Israeli journalist, politician and lawyer.
Tamir was born in Berdychiv in the Russian Empire (now part of Ukraine) and immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1924. He passed through...
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| x Tang Xiyang | Environmentalism | Person |
Tang Xiyang(唐錫陽) (born January 30, 1930 in Miluo, Hunan Province) is a Chinese environmentalist. He was awarded the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding.
Tang Xiyang graduated from Beijing Normal University and then...
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| x Tuenjai Deetes | Environmentalism | Person |
Tuenjai Deetes (Thailand) received the Global 500 Roll of Honour in 1992, and was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1994. Deetes has been working with the Thai hill tribes since the early 1970s. She co-founded the Hill Area Development...
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| x Josef Velek | Environmentalism | Person |
Josef Velek, ing. (Master of Art, Technology) (November 30, 1939-April 30, 1990) was a Czechoslovak (Czech) journalist, author and environmentalist.
Velek was born November 30, 1939 in Klínec, Czech Republic.
He began to publish in the sixties, and...
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| x Ven Kirantidiye Pannasekera | Environmentalism | Person |
Ven Kirantidiye Pannasekera was a pioneer in environmental conservation activism starting from 1981.
He started an organization named Friends of Nature to help protect the Sinharaja Forest of Sri Lanka. He was able to form the "Sri Lanka...
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