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Dear Friend,

I know it’s a cliché around Thanksgiving, but I can’t help but be thankful. In addition to having good health and a great family, I’ve seen Greengrants thrive in the last year. We will make 600 grants in 80 countries in 2006, and we are connecting our supporters to positive social change in some of the most critical – and most remote – areas of the world.

In September, we organized our first donor trip. Some of the participants called it “life changing”. Check out the links below.

Also, we have changed around our website a bit and added a "Breaking News" section that updates daily and a "Resources" page that has links to organizations and reading material that have been helpful to us here at Greeengrants.

You’ll also find a great interview with Greengrants advisor Lucille Apis Overhoff, as well as a piece on Sakhalin and Greengrants’ role in that tenuous victory.

Hope you find it all interesting. And many thanks to you, too. We’re honored to have so many friends and supporters.

With best wishes,

Chet Tchozewski

Smelter at La OroyaGreengrants' First Donor Trip

In September, a small group of Greengrants donors accompanied Helen Gemmill of Greengrants and Andes Coordinator Denise Bebbington on a week-long trip to Peru. The group met with local activists, visited a town ravaged by the notorious La Oroya smelter, and learned more about "no contact" communities deep in the Amazon rainforest. All participants were positive about the experience; some even called it "life changing."

To read excerpts from Helen's journal...
Sakhalin Pipeline Construction Photo courtesy of Pacific Environment Sakalin II Project Suspended

The Russian government recently announced that it was suspending construction of a huge natural gas project on Sakhalin Island, citing ongoing environmental damage to critical salmon habitat.

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Lucille Apis OverhoffInterview New Pacific Advisor, Lucille Apis Overhoff

Greengrants' new Pacific Islands advisor brings a broad range of experience as environmental activist, administrator and scholar, but also a lifetime of respect for "kepikipik kan" -- "the gift of creation."

Read more...

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