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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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Laurel Springs School Laurel Springs School
Adult Award Winner in 1990 In 1988, 12 high school students of Laurel Springs School decided to make a video that would inspire children to help save their planet. Their…
Dr. Calestous Juma Dr. Calestous Juma
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Dr. Sylvia Earle Dr. Sylvia Earle
Sylvia Earle's PhD dissertation "Phaeophyta of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico" created a sensation in the oceanographic community in 1966. Never before had a marine scientist made such a detailed…
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Professor Paul Joseph Crutzen Professor Paul Joseph Crutzen
Professor Paul J. Crutzen has made and continues to make, major contributions both to environmental research and to rational political discussions that lead to enhanced environmental protection measures. In 1969,…