Top Green Voices
Greenworlder Top Voices 2023 - Pioneering a Greener Future Together is our global initiative where we bring the most brilliant minds in climate change and sustainability together to co-create a strategy for transforming our world into a thriving eco-friendly haven.
Betsy Rosenberg
Award-winning journalist & environmental media pioneer. Dedicated to eco-communication, solutions-oriented interviewing, and sharing vital stories. Founder of www.GreenTV.com, a leading-edge green programming platform.
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Betsy Rosenberg is the first sustainability expert we invited over to the platform and to kick things off, she wrote an expert article about the lack of mainstream media coverage on climate change.
Raising the Alarm: How Mainstream Media Fails to Cover Environmental News
written by: Betsy Rosenberg
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When the Greenworlder team approached me with the opportunity to share my opinion in an article for this exciting new platform, I immediately knew what topic to choose. You could consider it a bit of an obsession as I’ve been hyper-focused on our urgent need to fight climate catastrophe for the past quarter century.
That’s how long I’ve been interviewing environmental leaders on all shades of green topics be they scientists, advocates, activists, authors, artists, green biz and tech experts, or the too few politicians who actually care about our planet’s future.
My particular preoccupation has long been with the dearth of mainstream media coverage on climate and other critically important environmental news, since we know how impactful media support can be for life and death emergencies like Covid. It is no longer an exaggeration to say that if ignored by society, the worsening interrelated climate, ocean, biodiversity, etc. crises threaten to bring an end to this human experiment. It has become increasingly evident that we must protect and preserve our life support system or face an increasingly dangerous and precarious future.
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It is mind-boggling to me, and others, that twenty-five years into creating self-funded independent green media programs, there is still almost no support for this key missing piece of the puzzle. If we fail to educate, engage, inform and inspire the masses to act with greater stewardship and urgency, we cannot succeed in meeting emissions reductions deadlines rapidly approaching. With just a little over six years remaining until the date scientists agree we must decrease greenhouse gas emissions by half, we cannot achieve this goal without mobilizing millions of Americans and global citizens in the fight for our lives, and for our children's futures.
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I’d bet my life on it ––because I already have.
As host and producer of several environmentally focused radio shows, including the first to air daily, I have reported on the billions of dollars that have been invested in clean tech, as well as the millions now being granted to organizations addressing environmental injustice. These are both crucial areas of importance but a key overlooked area of focus remains ...
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Robin Greenfield
An activist and humanitarian dedicated to leading the way to a more sustainable, just and equal world.
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He embarks on extreme projects to bring attention to important global issues and inspire positive change. His work has been covered by media worldwide including National Geographic and he’s been named “The Robin Hood of Modern Times” by France 2 TV. Robin’s life is an embodiment of Gandhi’s philosophy, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
He believes that our actions really do matter and that as individuals, and communities we have the power to improve the world around us. Robin donates 100% of his media earnings to grassroots nonprofits and has committed to living simply and responsibly for life.
From millionaire by 30 to The Forest Gump of Ecology
written by: Robin Greenfield
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My journey in activism began in 2011. I was living a pretty typical US American lifestyle. I was focused on material possessions and financial wealth. In fact, I even had a goal of becoming a millionaire by the time I turned 30. However, it wasn’t long until my dreams and ambitions shifted and became more about experimenting with sustainability and learning to live in harmony with the Earth.
I started to watch a lot of documentaries and read many books and soon learned that the way I was living was causing an incredible amount of destruction to the world. Where I once didn’t see any error in my ways, I was now able to recognize this destruction in a variety of areas, from the food I was eating to the car I was driving, the gas I pumped into the car, the cheap junk I was buying, the trash I was creating, and even the water I was drinking.
I realized that all of these actions caused destruction to people, the planet, and the plants and animals we share this home with.
In 2011, I was 25 years old and I just said to myself that I cannot continue this way for maybe 50 more years I am alive on the Earth. I decided I wanted to do things differently and learn to live in harmony with the Earth. Some may think this sounds cliché, but I sought to live in a way that wasn’t so destructive to the planet. The truth is, this isn’t much to ask for.
My activism journey has been routed in the idea of leading by example, being the change I wish to see, and pursuing the truth. My life took a turn in 2011, and I switched from pursuing a relatively traditional US American lifestyle to one that seeks the truth in overcoming the delusion of materialism and industrialization. I can’t control the world, but there’s one thing I can control ...
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Rebecca Prince-Ruiz
Rebecca Prince-Ruiz is the founder of Plastic Free July, a global movement that helps millions of people and organisations be part of the solution to plastic pollution.
Regarded as ‘Australia’s best known plastic activist’, in 2021 Rebecca received the prestigious WA Australian of the Year Local Hero Award. Rebecca is a seasoned presenter to global audiences, media spokesperson, TEDx speaker, and sustainability professional who is motivated to care for people and the planet.
A Churchill fellow and co-author of Plastic Free: The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters, she believes that by changing our relationship with plastic and challenging our consumption together, we can take action to end plastic waste and enjoy a healthy world.
Small steps, big difference: how millions of people are tackling plastic pollution
written by: Rebecca Prince-Ruiz
As plastic production increases exponentially and plastic pollution grows and the impacts on human health and human rights becomes more apparent every year, governments worldwide are negotiating a global treaty to end plastic pollution.
If we do not act and continue with business as usual, plastic pollution into the oceans is projected to quadruple by 2040, costing the world more than $100bn per year.
To end plastic pollution, we cannot just rely on recycling or cleaning up our way out of this problem. Humans are using as much ecological resources as if we lived on 1.75 Earths. According to the UN Environment Programme, the common thread that runs through the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution, is unsustainable production and consumption.
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This is where the annual challenge now known as Plastic Free July comes in. Started in the remote city of Perth, Western Australia with just 40 people in 2011, the challenge has grown to become a global social movement, inspiring and supporting millions of people to reduce and refuse single-use plastics.
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The campaign tackles the problem at the source by “turning off the plastics tap” and does this by focusing on solutions and sharing ideas rather than raising awareness or education people. It has been our pleasure this year to have people from the greenworlder community joining the challenge, sharing ideas, supporting each other and together making a difference.
Our campaign motto “Small steps, big difference” speaks to the core of the approach. This isn’t about a few people being perfect and avoiding all single-use plastic ...