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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Jump the chasm Are you an EcoDaredevil?	Guest author	30 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: heroes, climate, environmental movement (all these topics)

Goldman videos	Adam Browning	17 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: environmental movement, grassroots activism, heroes (all these topics)

If loving the earth isn't enough, hating Chevron will do Chevron runs ad attacking Goldman Prize winner	Adam Browning	15 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Big Oil, grassroots activism, heroes, jackassery, litigation, oil (all these topics)

Cries on the Prize Chevron throws hissy fit that anti-Chevron activists received award		15 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:48 AM on 15 Apr 2008 Chevron is throwing a hissy fit over the Goldman Environmental Prize awarded to two Ecuadorian activists who want the oil company to clean up pollution in the Amazon rain forest. Texaco, which was acquired by Chevron in 2001, dumped 18.5 billion gallons of petrochemical waste in the Amazon between 1972 and 1992. Lawyer Pablo Fajardo and community organizer Luis Yanza won the G ...
Topics: Amazon, Big Oil, Ecuador, energy, grassroots activism, heroes, litigation, news, oil, rainforests, water pollution (all these topics)

They're the Tops Meet the global activists who won this year's Goldman Environmental Prize		13 Apr 2008	Grist Feature

Topics: environmental justice, environmental movement, grassroots activism, heroes, progress (all these topics)

You know who rocks?	David Roberts	10 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: China, heroes, international politics, politics, sports (all these topics)

She's Got a Feeling You're Not in Kansas Anymore Bill to allow new dirty coal plant vetoed by Kansas governor		21 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 3:09 PM on 21 Mar 2008 Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has vetoed a bill that would have allowed a new two-unit coal plant to be built in her state. The legislation would have overturned an October decision by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to deny Sunflower Electric a coal-plant permit on the basis of greenhouse-gas emissions. The bill Sebelius kicked to the cu ...
Topics: coal, energy, heroes, Kansas, legislation, news, politics, state politics (all these topics)

The other Hillary Everest climber dead at 88	Katharine Wroth	11 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: heroes (all these topics)

A Perfect Tennesseean Tennessee Senate passes resolution honoring Al Gore		11 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 11:02 AM on 11 Jan 2008 The Tennessee state Senate has passed a resolution honoring Al Gore for his efforts to curb climate change. And the crowd goes wild! "Let's be honest about it. What is a resolution but a piece of paper with flowery words on it," says House Republican Leader Jason Mumpower, adding that the resolution "has no real meaning other than whatever meaning it has to him when he hangs ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, heroes, news, politics, Tennessee (all these topics)

Who's the greenest of them all? Vote for the most heroic eco-hero of 2007	Grist	21 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, heroes, politics, energy, Van Jones (all these topics)

One Prize Fits Al Al Gore and IPCC awarded Nobel Peace Prize		10 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 7:51 AM on 10 Dec 2007 Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change received their Nobel Peace Prizes this morning in Oslo, Norway. In his acceptance speech, Gore emphasized humanity's role in the climate crisis, saying, "We are what is wrong, and we must make it right ... We never intended to cause all this destruction, just as Alfred Nobel never intended that dynamite be used for waging war. He had hoped ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, heroes, IPCC, news (all these topics)

Good on Gordon British Prime Minister Gordon Brown makes ambitious climate speech		21 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 1:18 PM on 21 Nov 2007 In his first major speech on the environment, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has suggested that Britain could aim to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions 80 percent by 2050. To accomplish said goal, Brown promised that all new dwellings in Britain will be zero-carbon by 2016, and that free insulation, low-energy light bulbs, and efficient appliances will be distributed widely to h ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, climate change mitigation, Gordon Brown, heroes, news, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Did You Ever Know That You're My Hero? Time compiles list of environmental heroes		23 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 10:06 AM on 23 Oct 2007 Time Magazine has compiled a long list of environmental heroes, including widely recognizable names (Mikhail Gorbachev, Prince Charles, Robert Redford, Al Gore) eco-recognizable names (Angela Merkel, Tim Flannery, Wangari Maathai, James Hansen, Amory Lovins, David Suzuki, Richard Branson), less-well-known folk (anti-poaching advocate Hammer Simwinga, water-purifying savant Abul Hus ...
Topics: heroes, lists, news (all these topics)

Our hero Grist maximum leader Chip Giller lights up the pages of Time	David Roberts	19 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: heroes, shameless self-promotion (all these topics)

Gore wins his second favorite award Nobel Prize is a nice follow up to Oceana Award	Andrew Sharpless	12 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Al Gore, climate, heroes, oceans (all these topics)

The Thrill of It, Al Al Gore and the IPCC win Nobel Peace Prize		12 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 5:34 AM on 12 Oct 2007 It's official: Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have won the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change," the Nobel committee said. The former vice president was described as "probably the single individua ...
Topics: Al Gore, heroes, IPCC, news (all these topics)

For whom the Nobel tolls Al Gore and the IPCC jointly win peace prize	David Roberts	12 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Al Gore, climate, heroes (all these topics)

Charlie and the Optimism Factory Florida's governor names climate panel, talks up green economy		16 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Charlie and the Optimism Factory Florida's governor names climate panel, talks up green economy Used to be the greenest thing in Florida was a golf course -- or maybe an old lady's dye job gone slightly awry. But something's happening in that sunshiny state. This week, Gov. Charlie Crist (R) followed up on an early-summer commitment by picking 21 business, community, and environmental leaders to serve on his Acti ...
Topics: business, climate, Florida, heroes, news (all these topics)

Suzuki edits the Sun	David Roberts	09 May 2007	Gristmill

Topics: David Suzuki, environmental movement, green living, heroes, innovation (all these topics)

Dios Mio Indigenous leader Julio Cusurichi Palacios battles for an intact Amazon	Michelle Nijhuis	25 Apr 2007	Main Dish
Julio Cusurichi Palacios. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. The Peruvian Amazon is one of the most remote places in the world. In its wildest corners, in the Madre de Dios region along the Brazilian border, some indigenous communities continue to live far from modern society. But their solitude is eroding: Loggers are pushing deeper into the forest, searching for increasingly rare s ...
Topics: Amazon, heroes, logging, Peru (all these topics)

First Things First Canadian Sophia Rabliauskas fights to protect her First Nation territory	Michelle Nijhuis	25 Apr 2007	Main Dish
Sophia Rabliauskas. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. The boreal forests of Canada, which stretch across the midsection of the country, are blessed with abundant wildlife, pristine wetlands, and vast carbon-storage capacities. For Sophia Rabliauskas, these abundant forests are also home. She's a member of the Poplar River First Nation, and she grew up in its traditional t ...
Topics: Canada, environmental justice, heroes, placemaking (all these topics)

Turn the Boat Around Working with the fishing industry, Orri Vigf�sson protects North Atlantic salmon	Michelle Nijhuis	25 Apr 2007	Main Dish
Orri Vigf�sson. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. "I have a passion for salmon," says Orri Vigf�sson. "It's the king of fish. It's just a spectacular creature." Vigf�sson is a veteran business exec -- the Icelandic brand Icy Vodka is one of his enterprises -- and he's now using his negotiating savvy to protect the iconic North Atlantic salmon ...
Topics: business, fishing, heroes, Iceland (all these topics)

The Fightin' Irish Willie Corduff has taken arms against a sea of Shell troubles	Michelle Nijhuis	24 Apr 2007	Main Dish
Willie Corduff. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. "We'd never objected to anything in our whole lives," says Irish farmer Willie Corduff. But when Shell Oil proposed to put a high-pressure gas pipeline through his family farm, Corduff changed his quiet ways. He and a handful of his neighbors refused to allow Shell on their property -- a stance that landed them in jail, and ...
Topics: Big Oil, heroes, Ireland, natural gas (all these topics)

He Does Not Dig Gold Ts. Munkhbayar fights destructive mining in Mongolia	Michelle Nijhuis	24 Apr 2007	Main Dish
Ts. Munkhbayar. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. Born into a family of Mongolian herders, Ts. Munkhbayar remembers when the livestock was healthy, the water was clean, and kids went ice skating on the nearby river. "I had a very happy childhood," he says. In the early 1990s, a gold-mining boom overshadowed all that; because of widespread hydraulic mining, which uses high-pressur ...
Topics: energy, heroes, mining, Mongolia (all these topics)

The Elephant in the Room Hammer Simwinga provides alternatives to African poaching	Michelle Nijhuis	24 Apr 2007	Main Dish
In the 1970s, one of the densest populations of elephants on the African continent roamed the Luangwa Valley of Zambia. By the end of the next decade, massive poaching for the ivory trade had decimated herds throughout Africa, and the elephant population in North Luangwa National Park had plunged from 17,000 to 1,300. Though international authorities shut down the ivory trade in 199 ...
Topics: heroes, wildlife, Zambia (all these topics)

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