Goldman Prize winners speak on illegal logging

Monday, October 1, 7:00 pm, at the Women's Building Auditorium, 3543 18th Street, #8, in San Francisco.

Come hear two Goldman Prize winners tell about their experinces combating illegal logging. The Goldman Prize is the world's foremost environmental prize awarded annually to grassroots activists from around the globe. Some people call it the Nobel Prize for environmentalists.

Julio Cusurichi is a 2007 recipient based on his activism to create a preserve and fight illegal logging in the remote rainforests of Peru. Anne Kajir won the prize in 2006 for her work opposing governmental corruption and timber interests to protect the largest intact tropical forest in the Asia Pacific region. Also joining the prize winners will be Indonesian forest activist Arbi Valentinus of the environmental organization Telepak. The evening's program will feature their inspirational stories and the impacts of illegal logging on global warming. Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope will moderate the event.

The event is co-sponsored by the Loma Prieta and Bay Chapters of the Sierra Club and the Club's Responsible Trade Program, along with the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Goldman Environmental Prize organization.

Refreshments will be served, and it's a great opportunity to meet like-minded people to share ideas about how we can take our new knowledge and leverage it into positive actions to benefit our world.

For more information or posters, or especially if you would like to volunteer to help organize the event, please contact Susan Ellsworth of the Sierra Club's Responsible Trade Program at susan.ellsworth -at- sierraclub.org or (202) 548-6593.