Miranda Wang and BioCellection win 2018 Pritzker Award for young environmental innovators
24-year-old founder of BioCellection receives $100,000 award from UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award
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Plastic pollution is a global crisis that results in wildlife entrapment, water and food contamination, and human health problems. Globally, only 9% of plastics produced are recycled; the rest is…
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A local hero for every coastline
What if the solution to our greatest ocean challenge was trapped in the mind of a person from the developing world? Why wouldn’t it be? After all 70% of our…
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Editing nature: Scientists call for careful oversight of environmental gene editing
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Pritzker Finalist Asha de Vos highlighted in TED Fellows Salon ‘Women In Innovation’
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Pritzker nominee, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez nominated for the MTV EMA Generation Change Award
For the first time ever, the MTV EMA is recognizing the inspiring, young changemakers of the world with the MTV EMA Generation Change award. The five changemakers nominated for the…
