Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award

Emma Marris is a Pritzker emerging environmental genius award nominator and is the author of “Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World.” Here’s her five-step plan to deal with climate change stress and become part of the solution.

A 2019 UN Climate Change Conference side event on nature-based solutions showcased collaborative actions between agencies, funds and programs to address climate issues. 2019 Pritzker Award winner and Sustainable Development Goals Advocate Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim urged solutions to enable indigenous peoples to address climate change and the implementation of rights-based approaches. She underscored that nature-based...

In Chad, livestock herders are struggling to find grazing for their animals, and crops are not growing as they should due to worsening droughts and floods, according to Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, a member of the African country’s Mbororo pastoralist community and winner of the 2019 Pritzker Award. As a result, people are being pushed deeper...

“California is no different than the rest of the United States in that regard, but not being able to export … most of our stuff to China is obviously a problem,” David Colgan, a sustainability author and communications specialist at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment & Sustainability, told The Epoch Times. “We need some technological...

 This Is Not A Drill has been written to clarify, inform, inspire and equip the people who are undecided yet interested in moving deeper into the climate action zeitgeist Extinction Rebellion has ingeniously catalyzed.  The book contains a wealth of essays, anecdotes, and advice from the environmentalist community including Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, an indigenous rights...

Sri Lanka is an island nation with more than 8000 square miles of territorial waters, home to 29 documented species of marine mammals, including five large whale species – but until Asha de Vos came along, very little was known about these creatures.

At the 2019 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award ceremony, each candidate recommended a book. Here’s the list, for anyone who wants to think like a young environmental genius, and just in time for Cyber Monday. Arthur Middleton “Benito Cereno” by Herman Melville Nearly everything we do – especially in politics – is rooted in a...

Using amateur video shared on social media, marine biologist Asha de Vos identified the animal as a southern elephant seal, named for its nose that resembles an elephant’s trunk. The largest seal species in the world, the southern elephant seal spends most of its time near Antarctica, only reaching land twice a year to mate...

“The voices of indigenous people are being heard here — through me, through all of you and through this prize,” said Ibrahim after receiving the award, which included a US$ 100,000 prize. “We are all together. We will win this battle; I am so confident.”

Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award recipient and native of Chad, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, receives $100,000 for work uniting cultures around a shrinking water resource that serves four African nations.

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is a guest on the “Mothers of Invention” podcast which features women of color and indigenous women from around the world in the climate crisis who are implementing solutions in their own communities. 

If you are looking for cool inspiration, meet the Women of Impact — a group that does not hesitate to go where their heart leads — on the National Geographic channel. The documentary, which premiered on Oct 19, features new and archival interviews with more than 40 women from diverse disciplines, cultural backgrounds and generations....