Every single day, grassroots environmental heroes around the world are working tirelessly on the frontlines to safeguard their land, water, and resources. From organizing a community to dismantle illegal palm oil plantations in Indonesia, to standing up to one of the world’s largest mining corporations in Peru, their work is the flame that keeps the grassroots environmental movement ignited. However, […]
On Saturday, April 7th, six construction workers were killed in an accident at a mine operated by Newmont Mining Corporation in central Ghana. The workers died instantly when a concrete floor collapsed on them at the Ahafo Kenyasi mine, the world’s most lucrative gold mine. The Global Greengrants Fund community is shocked and devastated by […]
Each April, Aveda and Global Greengrants Fund partner together to support projects in 88 countries worldwide protecting clean water. Since 2007 we’ve been able to: Award 2,017 grants Protect 1,293 lakes, wetlands, and rivers Improve 1,137,428 lives Support 44,066 women engaged in working towards clean water for their communities This kind of impact would not […]
According to National Geographic WILD, an adult male elephant can drink up to 55 gallons of water in less than five minutes, and requires between 18 to 26 gallons on a daily basis to survive. So what happens when the natural habitats elephants depend on are disrupted? On the Indonesian island of Sumatra, 45,000 acres […]
Around the world, 700 million people live without access to something none of us can live without – water. Aveda and Global Greengrants Fund come together each April for Aveda Earth Month to protect clean water, raising money to support locally-led projects worldwide. As part of Earth Month, Aveda donates 100% of the purchase price […]