Category: Analysis

How Brazil’s Grassroots Environmentalism is Making an Impact

The Center for Socio-Environmental Support (CASA), the Brazilian member of the Greengrants Alliance of Funds, is supporting effective action and ways of life that are already making a difference. Though often obscured by economies of scale, these movements are cooling the planet and building the foundation for a more sustainable economic model the world needs to survive the future.

Moving Towards DDT-Free: Uganda and Beyond

As reported in a recent Reuters article, the United Nations has announced a plan to rid the world of DDT by 2020.

The Story of Stuff Makes the Headlines

Annie Leonard, one of the founders of Greengrants’ India Advisory Board and longtime member of the Greengrants network, is gaining fame for her video entitled ‘The Story of Stuff.’

Landmark Case against Texaco for Amazon Pollution Nears End

Sixteen years after the lawsuit was first filed by Ecuadoran residents of the Amazon rainforest against Texaco—now owned by Chevron—for polluting their lands and waters, the end is finally in sight. At stake is the largest damages award for an environmental case in history—more than $27 billion.

Greengrants Supporter Roy Young on Submarine Tailings Disposal Practices

Longtime Greengrants donor and friend, Roy Young, owner of Nature’s Own stores across Colorado, has co-authored an article on the impacts of the horrendous practice of submarine tailings disposal in the March/April 2009 edition of World Watch Magazine.

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