{"id":41045,"date":"2021-06-15T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=41045"},"modified":"2021-06-15T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T21:13:00","slug":"resource-meet-the-2021-goldman-environmental-prize-winners-mongabay-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/resource-meet-the-2021-goldman-environmental-prize-winners-mongabay-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource: Meet the 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners, Mongabay News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Inspiring reading today, the 6 new winners include an inspiring Indigenous leader (a regular occurrence for this top environmental activism prize: Liz Chicaje Churay from Peru), plus an American from the Gulf Coast’s cancer alley fighting refineries and plastics plants, successfully:<\/p>\n

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Meet the 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners
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The prestigious\u00a0Goldman Environmental Prize<\/a>, also known as the \u201cGreen Nobel Prize\u201d will be awarded today to six environmental activists, one from each of the world\u2019s inhabited continents.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s winners include a special education teacher whose activism stopped the construction of a billion-dollar plastics manufacturing plant along the Mississippi River; a woman whose efforts led to the creation of a national park in Peru the size of Yellowstone; a community leader whose organizing and 500-day blockade of heavy equipment stopped the construction of two dams in the Balkans; an activist who helped cancel 13 coal power plants in Japan and is the first female prize winner from Japan; a man who has dedicated his life to rescuing endangered pangolins from the illegal wildlife trade and ending poaching; and a woman who fought for a national ban on thin plastics manufacturing in Malawi.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it comes to the environment, the global community of grassroots activists, leaders, thinkers, and philanthropists is only growing and becoming more sophisticated, more united, more powerful,\u201d Susie Gelman, vice president of the Goldman Environmental Foundation, said in a press release.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese Prize winners have so much to teach us about the path forward and how to maintain the balance with nature that is key to our survival,\u201d Gelman said. \u201cThey have not been silenced \u2014 despite great risks and personal hardship \u2014 and we must also not be silent, either. It takes all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s\u00a0ceremony<\/a>\u00a0will take place virtually today, June 15, at 4 p.m. PDT and will be hosted by Jane Fonda with musical guests Lenny Kravitz, Baaba Maal, and the Ndlovu Youth Choir. Sigourney Weaver and Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate will make special appearances.<\/p>\n

Here are the winners of the 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize:<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Sharon Lavigne, United States<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Gloria Majiga-Kamoto, Malawi<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Liz Chicaje Churay, Peru<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Thai Van Nguyen, Vietnam<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Maida Bilal, Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Kimiko Hirata, Japan<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3815,"featured_media":34099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[1],"tags":[61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41046,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41045\/revisions\/41046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}