Mobilizing the Voices of Grassroots Organizations at COP 17
An estimated 40,000 people from all around the world are arriving in Durban, South Africa this week for COP 17, the UN’s latest round of climate talks. Civil society organizations – including 4 IDEX...
View ArticleCOP 17: Whose Voices Will Be Heard?
In South Durban, host of COP 17, this year's UN climate talks, homes are located directly next to oil refineries and factories. The factories continue to offer no support to these families who are at...
View Article1,000 Durbans: Global Week of Action!
IDEX Partner Biowatch's workshop brought together rural women farm workers to put together posters to march with on Dec 3rd's Global Day of Action IDEX is joining social movements from across the globe...
View ArticleDurban, South Africa: Global Day of Action
During COP 17, the UN’s latest round of climate talks, civil society organizations – including 4 IDEX Partners – are mobilizing from all over the world to put pressure from the outside on the...
View ArticleSouth Durban Toxic Tour Exposes Big Polluters
During COP 17, the UN’s latest round of climate talks, civil society organizations – including 4 IDEX Partners – are mobilizing from all over the world to put pressure from the outside on the...
View ArticleCreating Positive Change in the Thar Desert
The following was written by Suzanne York, blogger at Taming the Tiger and writer with the Institute for Population Studies/HowMany.org. Recently I had the privilege of meeting with Dr. Prakash Tyagi,...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week 4/29/14
IDEX is delighted to announce that Desmond D’Sa, co-founder of our South African partner SDCEA, has been awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize (also called the ‘Green Nobel’) for 2014. He...
View ArticleEnvironmental grantmaking at the grassroots: IDEX on the radio
Yeshica Weerasekera, Africa Director, IDEX IDEX’s Yeshica Weerasekera and Tim Little of the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment were interviewed on KPFA in Berkeley on the Terra Verde...
View ArticleVictory in Durban highlights the power of grassroots organizing
Now more than ever, we stand with our partners who are on the frontlines of environmental justice. Their victories are our victories. Their struggles are our struggles. In the face of increasing...
View ArticlePeople power fuels solutions to climate change
Now more than ever, we are drawing inspiration from our fearless partners who rise up each and every day. However hopeless we may feel at times, our partners show us that we have tremendous power when...
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