Heinz Foundation Announces Awards to Climate Heroes. By Elizabeth Weise, ScienceFair, September 21, 2010. "This year's Heinz Family Foundation awards include honors for a scientist documenting the effects of endocrine disruptors, a champion on the global seed vault and one of the giants in the field of 'green,' or non-toxic, chemistry. The awards come with an unrestricted cash prize of $100,000. They recognize outstanding individuals for their contributions in the areas of Arts and Humanities, the Environment, the Human Condition, Public Policy, and Technology, the Economy and Employment. They were established by Teresa Heinz in 1993 to honor the memory of her late husband, U.S. Senator John Heinz.
"This year's winners include: James Balog, Extreme Ice Survey (Boulder, Colo.) For his dramatic use of photography to document the devastation of global warming… Cary Fowler, Ph.D., Global Crop Diversity Trust (Rome, Italy) For establishing the Global Seed Vault to conserve genetic diversity of the world's food plants despite climate change… Gretchen Daily, Ph.D., Stanford University and the Natural Capital Project (Stanford, Calif.) For her achievements demonstrating the financial value of natural ecosystems, which include climate stability, flood control, water purification, pollination and production of food… Daniel Sperling, Ph.D., University of California, Davis (Davis, Calif.) For advancing sustainable transportation policies and accelerating the transition to low-carbon alternative fuels nationwide… Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, (Williamstown, Mass.) For her groundbreaking environmental journalism and devotion to informing readers… Michael Oppenheimer, Ph.D., Princeton University (Princeton, N.J. and New York, N.Y.) For assessing the impacts of global warming and air pollution, and working for policies to prevent future harm… Richard Feely, Ph.D., NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (Seattle, Wash.) For his extraordinary efforts in identifying ocean acidity as global warming's 'evil twin.'"
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