Spotlight on Ghana: Flagship Country in Africa for Pure Earth’s Lead Reduction Efforts
May 19 , 2023
Esmond Quansah, Pure Earth Ghana's Country Director, highlights the pollution problems facing his country, and how his team is working to fix it. Learn more about our work in Ghana and follow Pure Earth Ghana on social media: IG, twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn..
ReadLead Cleanup in Jakarta, Indonesia
Nov 24 , 2009
Jakarta - we are so fortunate to have Budi Susilorini working for us there. She's our eyes, ears and hands on the ground for our cleanup work in Indonesia. We're about to kick off a project targeting lead poisoning on.
ReadAnother Chernobyl?
Nov 19 , 2009
Blacksmith is working to avert a catastrophe on the scale of Bhopal or Chernobyl at the old Gorlovka chemical plant in the Ukraine. Recently, I've been working to avert a catastrophe at the Gorlovka chemical plant in the Ukraine, which.
Read12 pinpricks of light
Nov 10 , 2009
David Hanrahan, Blacksmith's director of global operations, described it best when he called them "12 pinpricks of light" - these are the 12 cases of cleanup and success we found around the world. I was surprised and a little shocked.
ReadGlobal Team Profile: “Lead Head” Scientist Travels the World for Blacksmith
Nov 07 , 2009
Jack Caravanos has cut his way through jungles in Panama, climbed mountains in Peru, dodged cobras in India, and waded through murky rivers in the Dominican Republic, all to get a sample of contaminated soil, air or water. He has fallen and.
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