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unusual facts about environmental activism



John O'Donohue

O'Donohue also devoted his energies to environmental activism, and is credited with helping spearhead the Burren Action Group, which opposed government development plans and ultimately preserved the area of Mullaghmore and the Burren, a karst landscape in County Clare.


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Alon Tal

Tal won the Charles Bronfman Prize for young humanitarian leadership in 2006 and used the prize money to establish the Tal Fund, which supports grassroots Israeli environmental activism.

Francis Underhill Macy

Macy “pioneered as a citizen ambassador linking Russians and Americans in shared concern for the environment, at a pivotal time when environmental activism was just emerging in the Soviet Union” and “led in the formation of permanent protection and restoration efforts, such as Earth Island’s Baikal Watch project,” says John Knox, co-executive director of Earth Island Institute.

Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station

On 10 April 2007, eleven environmental activists from a group called Eastside Climate Action were arrested after they entered the power station and climbed onto equipment in order to draw attention to greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power stations, when E.ON UK were proposing to build more.

Yale World Fellows Program

Gidon Bromberg was named one of Time's "Environmental Heroes of the Year" in 2008, for his work on using environmental activism to foster peace processes in the Middle East.

Ma Jun won the 2012 Goldman Environmental Prize for combining use of technology and environmental activism to pressure Chinese manufacturers to reduce their environmental footprint and clean up global supply chains.