October 2009 Newsletter
Announcing the release of Blacksmith Institute's 2009 report World's Worst Polluted Places: 12 Cases of Cleanup and Success," jointly issued with Green Cross Switzerland.
Each year Blacksmith's World's Worst Polluted Places report
generates greater public awareness of pollution--one of the biggest
problems the world faces today.
"This year we want to celebrate successes. We do this to show
that the problem can be tackled successfully even with limited funding,
and through models, can be replicated around the world," said Richard
Fuller, president and founder of Blacksmith Institute in his letter for
the report.
The 2009 report demonstrates that pollution remediation is one
of the most effective ways of saving lives, especially those of
children. However, despite successes, the report notes that pollution
cleanup is still just an emerging activity in developing countries,
which bear the brunt of life-threatening pollution. These bright spots
in the polluted landscape should persuade the international community
to step up funding for similar remediation programs, concludes the
report.
Download the full report at www.worstpolluted.org
Read about it in the New York Times, Reuters, Associated Press, IPS, Scientific American and more.
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