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Who are the people who are working to build a more just, green and peaceful world? Finding and supporting them is the objective of the MacArthur Foundation , which each year chooses a group of people to receive a scholarship of 625 thousand dollars, to be spent without any conditions. These recognitions are known as "the genius scholarships", since they are awarded to individuals from very diverse branches of art, journalism, science and activism, who are considered not for a specific project but for their entire career. In 2015, the organization chose 24 people , of which eight work in fields related to social responsibility or sustainability. Get to know them below: 1. Patrick Awuah, social entrepreneur: He received the scholarship for creating a new model of higher education in Africa that combines ethical leadership training with a tradition in liberal arts and skills development for current needs and opportunities on the continent. 2. Kartik Chandran, Environmental Engineer: It works on transforming waste water so that it stops being a pollutant that must be eliminated and becomes a resource to create useful products such as chemicals, energy sources and fertilizers.
Gary Cohen, health: This environmental health activist is encouraging environmental responsibility among health care providers and positioning health care practice in the broader context of sustainability, climate change, and community health challenges; all this through his organization Health Care Without Harm. 4. Matthew Desmond, sociologist: It has revealed the impact of eviction on poor Europe Cell Phone Number List families, as well as the role of housing policies in sustaining racial inequality and poverty in large American cities. 5. LaToya Ruby Frazier, artista visual: He has captured the consequences of post-industrial decline on marginalized communities and demonstrated that photography can promote dialogue about historical change and social responsibility. 6. Juan Salgado, community leader: Created a model for job development and training among immigrant communities through a comprehensive approach that includes language skills training, education and other barriers to entering the workforce. 7. Alex Truesdell, designer: Builds low-tech, accessible, and customized tools and furniture that enable children with disabilities to actively participate in their homes, schools, and communities.
Peidong Yang, chemist: It has opened new horizons to address the global challenge of clean and renewable energy sources through advances in the science of semiconductor nanowires and photonic nanowires.The increasing speed with which we produce, consume and dispose of countless goods every day produces an incalculable amount of waste around the world, much of which will take years or even decades to decompose, but before doing so it goes a long way. to the landfills, the so-called garbage containers, or some of the places that you will discover below through our postcards. Of course, visiting them is not recommended at all. These far from paradisiacal destinations have regularly appeared in the ranking of the most polluted places on the planet carried out by the Worst Polluted organization each year, as a result of the more than 250 thousand tons of electronic waste they house, coming from the United States and Europe. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank have estimated that 23% of deaths in developing countries can be attributed to environmental pollution, which also contributes to 80% of diseases. Another interesting fact is that one fifth of the global incidence of cancer is caused by environmental exposure to pollution. For minors, environmental pollution is responsible for 33% of diseases.