Editorials
United Nations Environmental Program presents San Francisco group with prize
The Associated Press
Tuesday November 13, 2001
SAN FRANCISCO — The United Nations Environment Program has awarded Huey D. Johnson the Sasakawa Environment Prize for 40 years of environmental work.
Johnson, 62, will receive the $200,000 prize in New York next week.
Johnson founded and is president of the Resource Renewal Institute, a San Francisco group that promotes development conserving natural resources.
He served as state Secretary for Resources between 1978 and 1982, and is a co-founder and former president of the Trust for Public Land, a nationwide group that has conserved more than 1.3 million acres across the country.
He also is the former western regional director of the Nature Conservancy.
