2011 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

The 2011 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners were announced last week. The winners—they could be your neighbor or a friend’s daughter or a colleague’s father—are doing amazing work around the world to make their communities better, safer places. Or as the Prize’s website states:

Grassroots environmental heroes too often go unrecognized. Yet their efforts to protect the world’s natural resources are increasingly critical to the well-being of the planet we all share.

The winners include:

• Raoul du Toit, Zimbabwe, black rhino conservation
• Dmitry Lisitsyn, Russia, ecosystem protection from petroleum development
• Ursula Sladek, Germany, renewable power
• Prigi Arisandi, Indonesia, clean water & protection against industrial pollution
• Hilton Kelley, United States, environmental justice in the Gulf Coast
• Francisco Pineda, El Salvador, citizen organizing against gold mining

Be prepared to be inspired!