Sentences with phrase «grassroots environmental achievements»
Reflecting their longtime commitment to both philanthropic endeavors and environmental concerns, our founders, Richard and Rhoda Goldman, envisioned the Goldman Environmental Prize as a way to demonstrate the international nature of environmental problems, draw public attention to global issues of critical importance, reward ordinary individuals for outstanding grassroots environmental achievements, and inspire others to emulate the examples set by the Prize recipients.
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«The amazing achievement of the last going - on - seven years is that citizens at the grassroots level have held off a trillion - dollar payday because we have fought so hard and well to require meaningful regulation of oil - and - gas extraction,» said Walter Hang, president of Toxics Targeting, an environmental database firm.
In 2014, we celebrated 25 years of the Prize by looking back at our founders» motivation for awarding grassroots environmental activists, and honoring the achievements of those who had received the Prize so far: