Meet the winners of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize

The Goldman Environmental Prize, the world’s most prestigious award for grassroots environmental activism, has announced seven winners this year. Six of the winners are women. Dubbed the Green Nobel Prize, the annual award honors grassroots environmental heroes from Europe, Asia, North America, Central and South America, Africa, and islands and island nations. This year’s winners include activists who built a coalition to stop the South African government’s “secret” $76 billion nuclear deal with Russia; a former journalist and filmmaker whose advocacy campaign resulted in a European Union-wide ban on deep-sea bottom trawling; a leader of the Afro-Colombian community who helped stop illegal gold mining; an activist who helped support Vietnam’s transition to more renewable and sustainable energy solutions; a stay-at-home mom who exposed the Flint water crisis in the U.S.; and an environmental activist whose advocacy campaign was instrumental in helping enact lead-safe paint regulations in the Philippines. The winners will be awarded the prize at the San Francisco Opera House in California, U.S., on April 23. This will be followed by a ceremony at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., on April 25. Here are the winners of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize. Makoma Lekalakala and Liz McDaid, South Africa Makoma Lekalakala, director of the volunteer-driven environmental group Earthlife Africa, and Liz McDaid, an environmentalist at SAFCEI (Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute), together challenged a $76 billion “secret” nuclear power deal that South Africa’s government had made with Russia. The deal aimed to develop 9.6 gigawatts of nuclear…

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