Catholic award for US environmental justice advocate
New Orleans, USAP A retired special education teacher turned environmental justice advocate will receive what the University of Notre Dame describes as the oldest and most prestigious honour for American Catholics. The university will present its Laetare Medal to Rise St James founder Sharon Lavigne on 15th May, during commencement ceremonies in South Bend, Indiana. In this 11th March, […]
Winners of ‘Green Nobel’ fight deforestation, coal power
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation As a teenage mother and activist, Liz Chicaje would travel by boat and foot across Peru’s Amazon rainforest with her young daughter campaigning to protect the ancestral lands of the Bora Indigenous people from illegal logging and mining. To preserve the forest that the Bora and other Indigenous people depend on […]