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Heroes Of The Environment (2009)
Heroes of the Environment is a list published in ''Time'' magazine. The third list was published in September 2009."Heroes of the Environment 2009" ''''. 2009. It contains 30 entries, individuals or groups, that have contributed substantially to the preservation of environment. It is divided into four categories: Leaders and Visionaries, Activists, Scientists and Innovators, and Moguls and Entrepreneurs. Leaders and Visionaries * |
Heroes Of The Environment
Heroes of the Environment was an annual list of notable environmentalists chosen and compiled by ''Time Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible process, irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequ ...'' magazine. The list appeared for three years from 2007 to 2009. * Heroes of the Environment (2007). * Heroes of the Environment (2008). * Heroes of the Environment (2009). See also * * * * Champions of the Earth * List of environmental awards References {{reflist Time (magazine) Culture and the environment * 2007 in the environment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takashi Yabe
is a professor at the Department of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech.). Career Takashi Yabe graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1973 and immediately became a research associate. After getting doctor degree of engineering, he moved to Osaka University as an associate professor and then returned to Tokyo Tech. as a professor in 1995. His specialties are theoretical and experimental studies of interactions between laser light and substances. He has established a venture business called Electra to realize the magnesium-based society using "solar-pumped laser", and currently serves as its CEO. Another specialty of Dr. Yabe is computational fluid dynamics. He has developed the "CIP Method" that can realistically replicate phenomena that are difficult to simulate such as collisions of objects and waves at the liquid–gas interface. Because of this work, he was invited to give a bicentenary memorial lecture at the Royal Insti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Environmental Citizen Award
The Global Environmental Citizen Award is an environmental award created by the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment and bestowed annually upon an individual working to restore and protect the global environment. Award recipients In 2003, primatologist Jane Goodall received Harvard's annual Global Environmental Citizen Award. Goodall founded a program called "Take Care (conservation program), Take Care", aimed at creating microcredit banks and educating conservation methods to inhabitants near the forest and national park. In 2004, the award was given to journalist Bill Moyers who has created discussion around the relation between the environment and various political trends, such as the discourse between Environmental policy of the United States, environmental policy and Christian religious right. Moyers's acceptance made a connection between the rising Christian fundamentalism movement and environmental policies of the post-Columbine era. Al Gore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global 500 Roll Of Honour
The Global 500 Roll of Honour was an award given from 1987 to 2003 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The award recognized the environmental achievements of individuals and organizations around the world. A successor system of UNEP awards called Champions of the Earth started in 2005. Awardees Since the inception of the award in 1987, over 719 individuals and organizations, in both the adult and youth categories, have been honoured with the Global 500 award. Among prominent winners are: * Anil Agarwal, prominent environmentalist from India. * Sir David Attenborough, producer of environmental television programmes. * Idelisa Bonnelly, 1987 Dominican Republic marine biologist who created the first Humpback Whale Sanctuary. * Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway. * Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States. He later won the Nobel Peace prize. * Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French marine explorer. * Jane Goodall of the United Kingdom whose rese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Environmental Media Awards
The Environmental Media Awards have been awarded by the Environmental Media Association since 1991 to the best television episode or film with an environmental message. The Environmental Media Association (EMA) is a non-profit organization created in 1989 with the stated belief "that through television, film and music, the entertainment community has the power to influence the environmental awareness of millions of people." Notable moments The very first EMA Awards took place in 1991 at which Diane Sawyer was host and Robert Redford was the keynote speaker. The 27th annual EMA awards were held in 2017 and hosted by Jaden Smith at the Barker Hangar, Santa Monica Airport. The 29th annual EMA awards took place in 2019, hosted Karrueche Tran, with ''Isle of Dogs'' by Wes Anderson winning the award for best feature film. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 30th Environmental Media Association’s awards ceremony in 2020 was held "virtually" via a livestreamed event. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Google
Google LLC (, ) is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI). It has been referred to as "the most powerful company in the world" by the BBC and is one of the world's List of most valuable brands, most valuable brands. Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., is one of the five Big Tech companies alongside Amazon (company), Amazon, Apple Inc., Apple, Meta Platforms, Meta, and Microsoft. Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by American computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Together, they own about 14% of its publicly listed shares and control 56% of its stockholder voting power through super-voting stock. The company went public company, public via an initial public offering (IPO) in 2004. In 2015, Google was reorganized as a wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casson Trenor
Casson Trenor is an American environmentalist, author, entrepreneur, and media personality. He is the author of a number of books on environmentalism and sustainable seafood, in particular '' Umijoo'', a children's book, and '' Sustainable Sushi'', a reference guide. Trenor and two co-founders created the world's first sustainable sushi restaurant in 2009, as well as the acclaimed plant-based Japanese restaurant Shizen in 2015. In recognition of his work, Trenor was awarded a Congressional Commendation as well as the title "Hero of the Environment" by ''Time'' magazine. Trenor currently works primarily as a speaker, author, and consultant on environmental and sustainability issues. Over the course of his career, he has worked for and with a number of environmental causes, such as Greenpeace, FishWise, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and the Conservation Strategy Fund. In April 2012, Trenor featured as part of a TEDx event in San Francisco, California. The talk focused on the sustai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorjee Sun
Dorjee Sun (born 1977) is a social entrepreneur based in Singapore. His work for Carbon Conservation was the subject of the international feature documentary '' The Burning Season'' in 2008. He is chief executive officer of Bioeconomy as well as co-founder and Senior Advisor to the AirCarbon Exchange (ACX). He formerly was director of Who Gives, Carbon Agro, and Carbon Conservation as well as advisor and early investor in other startups. Early life Sun was born to a Chinese father and a Tibetan mother from Darjeeling in Sydney, Australia. He grew up in northern Sydney and attended North Sydney Boys High School. He graduated from a combined Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Law, and a diploma in Asian studies (Mandarin) in 2001 from the University of New South Wales. During his studies he spent two years on scholarship in Beijing, China, studying Chinese and law at Peking University. Career Sun is the founder of a recruitment software company, as well as an award-winning educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheri Liao
Liao Xiaoyi (), or Sheri Liao, is a Chinese environmental activist, journalist and producer of documentaries whose works are credited with advancing the Chinese environmental movement. Life and work After graduating from Sun Yat-sen University in 1986, Liao taught philosophy as a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, where she first gained an interest in environmental philosophy. She began to read environmentalist works and film documentaries on China's ecological plight that appeared on China Central Television. She then served as a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina, where she claims to have first discovered the role that civil society can play in environmentalism. She returned to China in 1996 and founded the non-government organization Global Village of Beijing. Her idea is to promote "a life of harmony" through reduced consumption and decreased use of harmful practices in daily lives. She served as an environmental adviser on the Beijing O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pen Hadow
Rupert Nigel Pendrill Hadow, known as Pen Hadow (born 26 February 1962), is a British Arctic region explorer, advocate, adventurer and guide. He is the only person to have trekked solo, and without resupply by third parties, from Canada to the Geographic North Pole. He is also the first Briton to have trekked, without resupply by third parties, to both the North and South Geographic Poles from the respective continental coastlines of North America and Antarctica. Hadow also led the Catlin Arctic Survey (2007-2012) which investigated sea ice volume, ocean acidification and ocean circulation. Early life and education Son of Nigel Philip Ian Hadow and Anne Pendrill Callingham, Hadow was educated at Temple Grove School, a former independent school at Heron's Ghyll in East Sussex, and at Harrow School, an independent school in London, where he was Head of School and captain of the school's rugby and Harrow Football teams. In 1977, while at Harrow, he inaugurated the school traditio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Speranskaya
Olga Speranskaya () is a Russian scientist and environmentalist. She has been the Director of the Chemical Safety Program at the Eco-Accord Center for Environment and Sustainable Development in Moscow since 1997 and holds a master's degree in Geophysics from Moscow State University, and a doctorate in Environmental physics from the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 2010 to 2018, she was a co-chair of the International POPs Elimination Network. Speranskaya has led many campaigns against the use of organic pollutants, fought to ban the burial and transport of hazardous chemicals, and provided information to government decision-makers for policy changes in many different countries. Speranskaya's environmental activism started in the 1990s when the Financial Times printed her essay outlining the toxic environmental issues due to the Soviet Union breaking up. When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, thousands of tons of obsolete chemicals and pesticides such as DDT, which had been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bindeshwar Pathak
Bindeshwar Pathak (2 April 1943 – 15 August 2023) was an Indian sociologist and social entrepreneur. He was the founder of Sulabh International, an India-based social service organisation promoting human rights, environmental sanitation, non-conventional sources of energy, waste management and social reforms through education. He was the Brand Ambassador for Swachh Rail Mission of Indian Railways, a complement to the broader Swachh Bharat Mission. His work is considered pioneering in social reform, especially in the field of sanitation and hygiene. He received various national and international awards for his work with this organisation. He was presented with the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academics and Management for the year 2017. He was conferred the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award, posthumously in 2024 and the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian award, in 1991. His education Bindeshwar Pathak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
