News of Green Cross International

Global Green USA launched its National Green School Initiative on 19 February during a star-studded pre-Oscar® party at the Avalon Hollywood to raise funds and awareness. The event featured musical performances by Sheryl Crow and Gavin Rossdale.

"The water crisis is part of the global crisis, part of the crisis of world politics," said Mikhail Gorbachev, founding President of Green Cross International, at the ‘Peace with Water' conference at the European Parliament on 12 February, 2009. If the "deficit of political leadership" conti [ … ]

"The risks from failing to act are increasingly understood to be high, and include economic instability, loss in quality of life, reversal of gains in poverty reduction and more frequent disaster and ecological degradation," said Alexander Likhotal, the President of Green Cross International, addr [ … ]

An article by GCI President Alexander Likhotal

Few events cut the fabric of history into “before” and “after.” Hiroshima is one of them. Indeed, as Victor Frankl, the Austrian psychiatrist and concentration camp survivor, wrote: “Since Auschwitz we know what man is [ … ]

GCI Founding President Mikhail Gorbachev presented the International Green Film Award to Leonardo DiCaprio at the eighth annual Cinema for Peace gala in Berlin on 9 February 2009. Captured below are sentiments expressed on the occasion by Mr. Gorbachev and Mr. DiCaprio.

Green Cross International and TAG Heuer have come together to form a partnership, where actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio will serve as the ambassador to support the activities of Green Cross International (GCI) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in the US.

Green Cross Spain has produced a yearbook on Sport and Sustainability to document their work in linking the sport world with Sustainable Development during 2008. The yearbook highlights the most important events as well as announcements, legislative development and initiatives that have been arisi [ … ]

Global Green USA joined the Huffington Post at a Pre-Inaugural Ball in Washington, DC celebrating new media, clean technology and the environment. Global Green Founder Diane Meyer Simon and Global Green President Matt Petersen were also bloggers on the Huffington Post before the Inaugural Ball. [ … ]

A comment from GCI President Alexander Likhotal:

As the Russian Ukrainian gas vaudeville seem to be reaching its final scenes signalling an end to the current gas dispute between the two countries, the crisis will have a longer lasting effect by bringing the issue of energy security to the [ … ]