Navdanya is a nonprofit organization based in India that works to protect plant and animal life, promote organic farming, support farmers’ rights, and teach people how to save seeds for future use. Vandana Shiva, an environmental activist, scientist, and writer, is one of Navdanya’s founders. Navdanya started in 1984 as part of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology (RFSTE), which was created by Vandana Shiva to help guide environmental efforts.
Vandana Shiva was born on November 5, 1952. She is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, advocate for food sovereignty, eco-feminist, and author who writes about opposing global economic systems. She lives in Delhi and has written more than 20 books.
The Population Bomb is a book written in 1968 by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, who were both associated with Stanford University.
Paul Ehrlich (German: [ˈpaʊl ˈeːɐ̯lɪç]; 14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a German doctor and scientist who studied blood diseases, the body’s defense system, and treatments for infections. He shared the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Élie Metchnikoff for their research on how the body fights disease. His major accomplishments include discovering a cure for syphilis in 1909 and improving a method to color bacteria so they can be seen under a microscope.
William Ernest McKibben (born December 8, 1960) is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written many books about the effects of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and leads the climate campaign groups 350.org and the Third Act Movement. He has written 12 books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature (1989), which discusses climate change, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
The Gaia hypothesis, also called the Gaia theory, Gaia paradigm, or Gaia principle, suggests that living things work together with non-living parts of Earth to create a system that helps keep conditions on the planet suitable for life. The Gaia hypothesis was created by chemist James Lovelock and developed with help from microbiologist Lynn Margulis in the 1970s. Lovelock named the idea after Gaia, a goddess from Greek mythology who was sometimes seen as a representation of Earth.
James Ephraim Lovelock was born on July 26, 1919, and died on July 26, 2022. He was an English scientist, environmentalist, and thinker who imagined the future. He is most famous for creating the Gaia hypothesis, which suggests that Earth acts like a self-regulating system.
The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was divided equally between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was created in 1988, and Al Gore, who was the former vice president of the United States and was born in 1948. They were honored “for their work to increase and share knowledge about climate change caused by humans, and to help create the actions needed to address this issue.”
Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist. He served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton.
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg (Swedish: [ˈɡrêːta ˈtʉ̂ːnbærj]; born January 3, 2003) is a Swedish activist who urges governments to take action on climate change and social issues. In 2018, when she was 15 years old, she began a school strike alone outside the Swedish parliament. This action inspired the global Fridays for Future movement, which encourages students to protest for climate action every Friday.