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NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, the first medical school-based center in the United States bringing scientific rigor to the relationship between human health and the health of the global environment, awards its 2004 Global Environmental Citizen Award to Bill Moyers.
"Bill Moyers is a talented journalist who has proven himself time and again with resourceful, thought-provoking pieces focused on some of today's toughest environmental issues," says Eric Chivian, MD, Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, and a former co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. "His work on the environment successfully makes strong connections between human health and the well-being of the Earth's ecosystems."
Some of Moyers most important broadcasts tackling environmental issues include: "America's First River," an exploration of the legacy of the Hudson River seen through both the lens of its ecology, natural history and beauty and its use as a dumping ground for PCBs and other industrial wastes; "Earth on the Edge," a comprehensive environmental report outlining the impact of human activity on five of the world's ecosystems as well as changes in behavior necessary to help restore them; and "Trade Secrets," an investigative report about the companies involved in the chemical revolution over the past 50 years, the chemicals they produce, and the effects they have on our bodies.
Moyers, who is retiring on December 17, has hosted and produced the weekly PBS series "NOW with Bill Moyers" since its launch in 2002. During that time, "NOW" has produced nearly three dozen stories on environmental topics ranging from global warming, destruction of wetlands, wind power, genetically modified food, mountaintop mining, and the weakening of the Clean Air and Water Acts. "Bill Moyers has been instrumental in highlighting how changes in the environment affect our health and our daily lives," says award ceremony host and Center for Health and the Global Environment board member Meryl Streep.
"It is an honor to receive this award from the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School," says Moyers. "The work of the Center not only plays a crucial role in bringing information to the public about environmental change, but also reveals what is at stake for real people. With awareness comes the power to reverse the trend," he says.
Best known as a broadcast journalist, Moyers career also includes service as the Deputy Director of the Peace Corps in the Kennedy administration and two years as White House Press Secretary for President Lyndon B. Johnson. He left the White House in 1967 to become the publisher of the New York daily Newsday, eventually moving to CBS as a senior analyst for the Evening News and chief correspondent for the acclaimed documentary series, "CBS Reports". In 1986, he confounded Public Affairs Television, Inc. with his wife and partner Judith Davidson where he produced the famous series "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth."
Moyers has received more than 30 Emmy Awards for his work during his 25 years in broadcasting and was elected into the television Hall of Fame in 1995. He was named as one of the 10 journalists who have had the most significant influence on television news by a survey of critics published in Television Quarterly, the official journal of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
CONTACTS: John Lacey, 617-432-0442, public_affairs@hms.harvard.edu
Event site contact -- Kathleen Frith, 617-519-9652, kfrith@hms.harvard.edu
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EVENT DETAILS
WHAT:
The Center for Health and the Global Environment (http://www.med.harvard.edu/chge/) at Harvard Medical School will present Bill Moyers with the 2004 Global Environmental Citizen Award today, Wednesday, December 1. The award ceremony will be held at the Carriage House Center for Global Issues. Following the presentation, an award dinner will be held at the Carriage House featuring sustainable cuisine by award-winning master chefs Dan Barber, Michel Nischan, and Nora Pouillon.
WHO:
Bill Moyers, Broadcast Journalist Meryl Streep, Actress, Environmentalist Eric Chivian, MD, Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, and a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize Dan Barber, Chef/owner, Blue Hill Restaurant and Blue Hill at Stone Barns Michel Nischan, Chef, Sources and Resources Nora Pouillon, Chef/Owner, Nora's and Asia Nora
WHEN:
TODAY, Wednesday, December 1, 2004 Award Reception: 6:00 pm Award Ceremony: 7:00 pm Award Dinner: 7:30 pm
WHERE:
The Carriage House Center for Global Issues 149 East 38th Street (Lex/Third), New York City
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CITIZEN AWARD RECIPIENTS
2003: Jane Goodall, PhD, CBE, head, Jane Goodall Institute, groundbreaking anthropologist and environmentalist. Honors include the Medal of Tanzania, the National Geographic Society's Hubbard Medal, and Japan's prestigious Kyoto Prize. In 2001 she received the third Gandhi/King Award for Nonviolence, presented at the United Nations by the World Movement for Nonviolence.
2002: Harrison Ford, actor and vice chair of the Board of Conservation International (CI), on which he has served for more than ten years. A field-based organization with over 1,000 professionals in 30 countries, CI concentrates on protecting biodiversity hotspots: 25 places that comprise only 1.4 percent of the Earth's surface, but contain a large proportion of its species. Ford narrated the IMAX film Lost Worlds: Life in the Balance to bring awareness to biodiversity conservation efforts. The film examines the planet's biological diversity from the polar regions to the tropics.
2001: Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University professor emeritus of biology. Wilson is one of the world's most distinguished and respected scientists. Through his books and lectures, Wilson has changed the way scientists and nonscientists alike view the natural world by helping them recognize its enormous complexity and diversity and by demonstrating its importance for their everyday lives. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and a recipient of the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School
The mission of the Center for Health and the Global Environment is to study and to promote a wider understanding of the human health consequences of global environmental change. The Center believes that people will protect the natural environment when they realize its importance to their health, and to the health and lives of their children. (http://www.med.harvard.edu/chge/)
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