Women Environmentalists

Women Environmentalists This Earth Day, Fairygodboss is celebrating 23 extraordinary female environmentalists who are helping to improve the environment and safeguard our planet for future generations. Read on to learn more about these pollution-defying women.1. Norma AlvarezA founding member of the Goa Foundation, Alvarez is an Indian social worker, environmental activist and attorney. She is also the president of an animal support group, People for Animals and has been honored for zu sich work by the Indian government.2. Tzeporah BermanBerman is best known for her role in blockading loggers in British Columbia in the early 1990s. Working with Greenpeace, Berman helped bring the destruction of Canadas rainforest into international focus. She has served in Canadas British Columbias Green Energy Task Force and is a social entrepreneur.3. Erin BrockovichThe woman played by Julia Roberts in the film, Erin Brockovich is, in fact, a real person who welches an environmental activist in Cal ifornia. Best known for filing a successful lawsuit against a large California utility company, she is now a media personality and works with attorneys and clients facing exposure to chemical substances.4. Carol BrownerBrowner was previously the Obama Presidential administrations director for the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy. Previously, she worked under the Clinton administration within the EPA and is known for starting a successful program to deal with contaminated lands in urban areas. She serves on a number of boards and committees dealing with environmental issues.5. Marion CotillardFrench actress Marion Cotillard is not just the face of Dior greifhandbags but is a well known figure in France and America for her many movie roles. In addition to her film work, she has taken parte in environmental activism and protection. For example, she is a member of WWF and also a spokesperson and member of Greenpeace.6. Alexandra CousteauCousteaus last name comes fr om her famous father and grandfather, who were both conservationists and naturalists, particularly with respect to the ocean and water resources. She continues their work as well, through her documentary films and her work leading expeditions through open waters.7. Maneka GandhiGhandi is an environmentalist and is currently the Union Cabinet Minister for Women Child Development in India. She is heavily involved in animal rights activism in addition to her environmental work. She founded the organization People for Animals, the largest animal welfare / rights organization in India and she also currently chairs the Jury of International Energy Globe Foundation which gives annual awards to those who have made the best environmental innovations. 8. Daryl HannahThough Hannah is best known as an actress, she is also an environmental campaigner who hosts a weekly video blog called DHLoveLife on sustainable solutions. She walks the talk by driving a car run on biodiesel and living in a hom e built with green materials and run on solar power.9. Julia Butterfly HillHill is an American environmentalist and is best known for having lived in a California redwood named Luna for two years in the late 1990s, in order to prevent loggers from cutting the tree down. The story of her time living in the tree is fascinating and involves learning how to cook on a propane stove and sleeping in a sleeping bag. Hill is an author and the co-founder of the Circle of Life Foundation and the Engage Network.10. Aila KetoAustralian Aila Keto is the President and founder of the Australian Rainforest Conservation Society. She is best known for her work in obtaining world heritage position for areas within the Australian rainforest and won the 2005 Volvo Environment Prize for her work.11. Winona LaDukeLaDuke is an American environmentalist and economist best known for her work in preservation around Native American tribal land claims. She has been on the same Presidential ticket as Ralph Nadar and is the first Native American woman to have received an electoral vote for Vice President of the United States. She previously has had an acting career.12. Loren LegardaLegarda is a Senator in the Philippines who has authored several laws regarding ecological waste management, as well as legislation benefiting women and childrens rights. She is also known as an environmentalist who has led a number of climate change laws.13. Hunter LovinsLovins is President of Natural Capitalism Solutions, a non-profit based in Colorado and also teaches sustainable business management at Bard College in New York. She previously co-founded and led the Rocky Mountain Institute. Lovins has been named a green business icon and Hero of the Planet by Newsweek and Time magazines, respectively.14. Elizabeth MayMay was formerly the Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada for over 15 years where she won several awards in recognition of her environmental contributions. May is currently the leader of the Green Party of Canada. She is also an Earth Charter International Commission member. 15. Sunita NarainNarain is the director of the India-based research Center for Science and Environment and a major proponent of sustainable methods for development. She was named in 2016 to Time Magazines list of 100 most influential people for her work in sustainable development and climate negotiations. She has also appeared in the documentary, Before the Flood.16. Phyllis OmidoKenyan Phyllis Omido is best known for leading organized protests against a lead smelting plant located near a slum in Mombasa, Kenya. The plant was ultimately closed for lead poisoning that killed nearby residents including her own child. Shes the founder of the Centre for Justice, Governance and Environmental Action and is known as the East African Erin Brockovich.17. Jane PoynterA Britishwoman and currently CEO of World View Enterprises, her company takes people to the edge of the Earths atmosphere through a high-al titude balloon. She is best known as one of eight people who agreed to live in a sealed, artificial world for two years in the 1990s known as Biosphere 2. She has worked with the World Bank on projects to mitigate auf der ganzen welt climate change and grow crops in Africa and Central America.18. Vandana ShivaBased in Delhi, India, Shiva has authored more than 20 books and is an scholar and environmental activist. She believes that a more sustainable environmental approach in agriculture goes hand in hand with engaging more women in farming and agricultural policy.19. SugathakumariA poet, feminist and environmental activist, Sugathakumari is one of the most famous environmentalists in Kerala, India. Her poetry places respect for nature and women at the forefront and she has won numerous accolades for both her writing and conservation work of old-growth forests in Kerala.20. Marina SilvaSilva is best known for being a Brazilian politician who ran for the 2010 Brazilian elections with the Green Party. She is associated with activists who have been assassinated for defending the Amazon forests and is considered a top global thinker.21. Severn Cullis-SuzukiCulls-Suzuki is an Canadian environmentalist and media personality. Shes previously been the host of Suzukis Nature Quest, a childrens television series and she helped launch a think tank focused on the issues of sustainable global development. She is an Earth Charter International Council Member.22. Saalumarada ThimmakkaThimmakkas Resources for Environmental Education is a non-profit based in Los Angeles, California named after Thimmakka. She is best known for her work in planting and personally and painstakingly tending to close to 400 banyan trees along a stretch of highway in the Indian state of Karnataka.23. Persia WhitePersia White is an environmentalist who is a director of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. A vegan and animal rights activist as well, she was honored by PETA in 2005 as a Humanitarian of the Year. She is best known for her acting career and her role on the sitcom Girlfriends.