NEWS

Everybody’s Movement; Environmental Justice and Climate Change
December 5, 2009 - Angela Park, Environmental Support Center
This report (attached) was written by Angela Park and funded by the Alki Fund of the Tides Foundation, and by the Town Creek Foundation. We hope that this report sparks a series of dialogues about global warming, equitable solutions, and how to engage a broader range of Americans in these critical conversations.  Go >

Where The Green Grants Went
December 4, 2009 - Jon Cracknell
The new edition of Where The Green Grants Went is now available as a PDF on the Environmental Funders Network website, www.greenfunders.org. The report forms part of the growing body of research into environmental grant-making, following on from EGA’s Tracking the Field, volume 2, and it has benefitted from conversations between the environmental funder networks in the US, Canada, Australia, continental Europe, and the UK.  Go >

EGA Blogs and Tweets from COP-15
December 2, 2009
Starting December 13th, EGA will be blogging and tweeting from Copenhagen. Please log-in for a on the ground update.  Go >

The Embarrassing Death Of Environmentalism
February 9, 2009 - Peter Montague, Rachel's Democracy & Health News #997
The essay, "Death of Environmentalism" has now been expanded into a book called "Break Through" in which two 30-something white guys claim they can show us the way to a new "politics of possibility" including "a new and better ecological movement." It's embarrassing.  Go >

Richard Mott Joins the Wallace Global Fund
November 2, 2007
Melissa Dann from the Wallace Global Fund is pleased to announce that the Wallace Global Fund has hired Richard Mott as its Senior Program Officer on Biodiversity. Many of you might know Richard from his long career at World Wildlife Fund-US. He has been with WWF for nearly 20 years and has served in a number of senior roles during his career there. Most recently, Richard was the vice-president for international policy in which he helped shape WWF's engagement in a number of key arenas, from climate to trade to biodiversity. He was the lead delegate for WWF-US during the Kyoto negotiations and for other critical meetings of CITES, the International Whaling Commission, etc. Richard holds a BS from Tulane university and received his JD from the University of Oregon. Richard joins our staff this coming Monday, November 5th. He can be reached at rmott@wgf.org.

www.WiserEarth.org: Profile Your Organization and Connect with Others
August 24, 2007
WiserEarth (www.wiserearth.org) seeks to create an information commons and a networking platform to serve the hundreds of thousands of organizations and individuals working on social justice, environmental restoration, and indigenous issues. It is a searchable library of resources, jobs, events, discussions, people, and over 106,000 organizations - growing larger every day. The "backbone" of WiserEarth is its 416 areas of focus, a detailed taxonomy of the many areas in which organizations in the social justice and environmental field concentrate their efforts.  Go >