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Goldman Prize Winner Caroline Cannon

The Goldman Environmental Prize is awarded annually to grassroots activists across the globe. This year’s North American recipient works to keep Arctic waters safe for her native Inupiat community and the ecosystem that sustains them.

Can Goldman Sachs Restore Its Image?

Fallout from Former Goldman Sachs Employee Piece in New York Times

Goldman Sachs Employee’s Public Letter of Resignation

Nuns to Protest Goldman Sachs

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Goldman Prize Winner: Ms. Kory Johnson

Every year the Goldman foundation of San Francisco awards six 100-thousand dollar prizes to environmental activists from each of the five continents and the island nations. The young woman who joins us now is Kory Johnson, of Phoenix, Arizona where is a freshman at Arizona State University. When she was only nine years old, she […]

GOLDMAN PRIZE: AN ORGANIZER IS REWARDED

Since 1990, the Goldman Foundation of San Francisco has recognized local organizers with its annual Environmental Prize which includes a cash award. A winner is selected from each inhabited continent for work in a wide range of evironmental areas and the 1997 North American Goldman went to Terri Swearingen, a nurse and mother jailed repeatedly […]

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Goldman Environmental Prize Goes to Chinese Dissident

Betsy Bayha of member station KQED reports on this years winners of the Goldman Environmental prizes. Among the recipients of what’s been called the “Nobel Prize for the Environment” are a Chinese dissident who was sent to jail for opposing plans to build a giant dam on the Yangtze river.

The De-Bushification of Regulations

After eight years of environmental deregulation, many hope the Obama administration will make decisions based on science.

Music with a Message in Mozambique

One of this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize winners hails from a poor province in Mozambique where he’s using music to raise awareness about the need for toilets and good hygiene.

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