Goldman Environmental Prize

Goldman Environmental Prize

"[I]n 1990 San Francisco civic leaders and philanthropists Richard N. Goldman and his late wife, Rhoda H. Goldman (1924-1996) created the Goldman Environmental Prize. The Goldman Prize continues today with its original mission to annually honor grassroots environmental heroes from the six inhabited continental regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. The Prize recognizes individuals for sustained and significant efforts to protect and enhance the natural environment, often at great personal risk. Each winner receives an award of $125,000, the largest award in the world for grassroots environmentalists. The Goldman Prize views “grassroots” leaders as those involved in local efforts, where positive change is created through community or citizen participation in the issues that affect them. Through recognizing these individual leaders, the Prize seeks to inspire other ordinary people to take extraordinary actions to protect the natural world." (see Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund)

Prize Winners
2009
 * Marc Ona Essangui

2007
 * Willie Corduff, Ireland
 * Julio Cusurichi Palacios, Peru
 * Tsetsegee Munkhbayar, Mongolia
 * Sophia Rabliauskas, Canada
 * Hammerskjoeld Simwinga, Zambia
 * Orri Vigfusson, Iceland

2006
 * Craig E. Williams, United States
 * Silas Kpanan’Ayoung Siakor, Liberia
 * Yu Xiaogang, China
 * Tarcísio Feitosa da Silva, Brazil
 * Olya Melen, Ukraine
 * Anne Kajir, Papua New Guinea

2005
 * Kaisha Atakhanova, Kazakhstan
 * Isidro Baldenegro López, Mexico
 * Corneille E.N. Ewango, Democratic Republic of Congo
 * Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, Haiti
 * Stephanie Danielle Roth, Romania
 * Father José Andrés Tamayo, Honduras

2004
 * Rudolf Amenga-Etego, Ghana
 * Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho, East Timor
 * Margie Eugene-Richard, United States
 * Libia Grueso, Colombia
 * Manana Kochladze, Georgia
 * Champa Devi Shukla, India

2003
 * Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, Spain
 * Julia Bonds, United States
 * Eileen Kampakuta Brown, Australia
 * Maria Elena Foronda Farro, Peru
 * Von Hernandez, Philippines
 * Odigha Odigha, Nigeria
 * Eileen Wani Wingfield, Australia

2002
 * Rashida Bee, India
 * Pisit Charnsnoh, Thailand
 * Sarah James, United States
 * Fatima Jibrell, Somalia
 * Norma Kassi, Canada
 * Jean La Rose, Guyana
 * Jadwiga Lopata, Poland
 * Alexis Massol-González, Puerto Rico
 * Jonathon Solomon, United States

2001
 * Jane Akre and Steve Wilson, United States
 * Yosepha Alomang, Indonesia
 * Giorgos Catsadorakis, Greece
 * Myrsini Malakou, Greece
 * Oscar Olivera, Bolivia
 * Eugène Rutagarama, Rwanda
 * Bruno Van Peteghem, New Caledonia

2000
 * Oral Ataniyazova, Uzbekistan
 * Elias Diaz Peña, Paraguay
 * Vera Mischenko, Russia
 * Rodolfo Montiel Flores, Mexico
 * Alexander Peal, Liberia
 * Nat Quansah, Madagascar
 * Oscar Rivas, Paraguay

1999
 * Jacqui Katona, Australia
 * Michal Kravcik, Slovakia
 * Yvonne Margarula, Australia
 * Bernard Martin, Canada
 * Samuel Nguiffo, Cameroon
 * Jorge Varela, Honduras
 * Ka Hsaw Wa, Burma

1998
 * Anna Giordano, Italy
 * Kory Johnson, United States
 * Berito Kuwaru'wa, Colombia
 * Atherton Martin, Dominica
 * Sven "Bobby" Peek, South Africa
 * Hirofumi Yamashita, Japan

1997
 * Nick Carter, Zambia
 * Paul Cox, Western Samoa
 * Loir Botor Dingit, Indonesia
 * Alexander Nikitin, Russia
 * Juan Pablo Orrego, Chile
 * Fuiono Senio, Western Samoa
 * Terri Swearingen, United States

1996
 * Ndyakira Amooti, Uganda
 * Bill Ballantine, New Zealand
 * Edwin Bustillos, Mexico
 * M.C. Mehta, India
 * Marina Silva, Brazil
 * Albena Simeonova, Bulgaria

1995
 * Aurora Castillo, United States
 * Yul Choi, South Korea
 * Noah Idechong, Palau
 * Emma Must, England
 * Ricardo Navarro, El Salvador
 * Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigeria

1994
 * Matthew Coon Come, Canada
 * Tuenjai Deetes, Thailand
 * Laila Iskander Kamel, Egypt
 * Luis Macas, Ecuador
 * Heffa Schuecking, Germany
 * Andrew Simmons, St. Vincent and the Grenadines

1993
 * Margaret Jacobsohn, Namibia
 * Juan Mayr, Colombia
 * Garth Owen-Smith, Namibia
 * Dai Qing, China
 * John Sinclair, Australia
 * JoAnn Tall, United States
 * Sviatoslav Zabelin, Russia

1992
 * Jeton Anjain, Marshall Islands
 * Wadja Egnankou, Ivory Coast
 * Christine Jean, France
 * Colleen McCrory, Canada
 * Medha Patkar, India
 * Carlos Alberto Ricardo, Brazil

1991
 * Eha Kern, Sweden
 * Yoichi Kuroda, Japan
 * Samuel LaBudde, United States
 * Wangari Maathai, Kenya
 * Evaristo Nugkuag, Peru
 * Roland Tiensuu, Sweden
 * Cath Wallace, New Zealand

1990
 * Robert Brown, Australia
 * Lois Gibbs, United States
 * Janet Gibson, Belize
 * Harrison Ngau Laing, Malaysia
 * Janos Vargha, Hungary
 * Michael Werikhe, Kenya

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Resources and articles

 * Marika Holmgren
 * Beto Borges