Goldman Environmental Prize

 The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded every year to ENVIRONMENTAL activists, one from each of the world's six geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. The Goldman Environmental Prize was established in 1990.

                                                                                             It is a green EQUIVALENT to....

  RICHARD and RHODA GOLDMAN( in the middle with the first group of Goldman Prize recipients) established the Goldman Environmental Prize, the first and largest award in the world for grassroots environmentalists.

                                                                       
                                                                      
                                                                  An Idea Whose Time Has Come..

Richard Goldman’s inspiration for launching an environmental prize emerged one morning over breakfast as he was reading about the NOBEL PRIZE winners. He wondered whether there was anything comparable that recognized ordinary people for their contributions to the environment. Research revealed that there was not. Always eager to tackle uncharted territory, Richard and his wife Rhoda began laying the groundwork in 1989 for the Goldman Environmental Prize.

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       Goldman Prize Recipients by Country 1990-2013

       Source

  http://www.goldmanprize.org/

                 http://www.goldmanprize.org/sites/goldmanprize.org/files/2013_Yearbook_Web.pdf
                                                      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoda_Goldman
                                                      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Goldman