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With COP26 just around the corner, we’ve been seeing a huge number of commitments from companies to reduce their carbon emissions to ‘net zero.’ This is relatively new territory without many blueprints to follow. More importantly, there are still few incentives or enforcement mechanisms to keep well...

Two of the world’s most urgent tasks—protecting the environment and creating jobs—both have enormously broad public support. Politically, however, both are orphans. Why? Take the case of the environment: Its very broad, diffuse constituency presses government to impose unwelcome costs on one highly...

This year Ashoka Turkey elected 92 year old Hayrettin Karaca as a senior fellow for his work leading the Turkish environmental movement. Here is a glimpse at some of the wisdom Hayrettin shares in the video: About trees and the environment: 'I gave away 220,000 trees all over Turkey...to villages...

The “The New Environmentalists” film series features portraits of six social innovators “who have placed themselves squarely in harm’s way to battle intimidating adversaries” in the fight for environmental justice. The innovators, including two Ashoka Fellows, are this year’s winners of the Goldman...

This week marks the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that struck Japan in 2011. The resulting tsunami and international nuclear crisis affected hundreds of thousands of people. To highlight the importance that emergency management can play in reducing and mitigating tragic loss, Ashoka Japan...

We are excited to host a TEDx Countdown event. TedxAshokaAfrica, is an independently organized online TEDx event happening on December 9th, 2021. Please join us as we hear from some of Africa’s leading social entrepreneurs who will be sharing how they are creatively solving problems in Africa. The...

On April 20, 2010 PBS aired "Dirt! The Movie", which explores the ways in which human activity has endangered the quality of our soil, leading to numerous environmental issues. It askes "how can humans reconnect to dirt, the living skin of the planet?" One of their interview subjects is Ashoka...