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    Photo: Laureate and Former US President, Jimmy Carter

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    Photo: Wangari Maathai, Founder of the Greenbelt Movement and 1987 winner

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    Photo: Actor and Environmentalist, 1987 Robert Redford

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    Photo: 1993 Laureate Calestous Juma, A voice for African Development and Professor at Harvard

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    Photo: Scholar and 1987 Laureate Anitra Thorhaug

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    Photo: The Baha'i Vocational Institute for Rural Women in India receive the Global 500 Award

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    Photo: Ms. Mosley and Friends, World Environment Day 1999

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    Photo: Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak receiving the Global 500 from UNEP director Mr. Laus Topher and the Lebanese Minister of the Environment Mr. Fares Bouez.

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    Photo: Jeff Gibbs has received widespread recognition for his work including the UN Global 500 Award.

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    Photo: Director and Laureate Marilyn Mosley Gordanier is pictured with 1988 Laureate Barbara Pyle, orignator of Captain Planet.

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    Photo: The Global 500 Award Ceremony, 1995 Pretoria, South Africa.

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    Photo: 1996 Global 500 Award Ceremony

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