Duke honors Robert Redford for environmental work
Duke University honored actor, director and environmentalist Robert Redford on Saturday with the inaugural Duke LEAF Award for lifetime environmental achievement in the fine arts.
Posted — UpdatedThe award was presented at Duke University's Page Auditorium during the university's Alumni Reunion Weekend.
Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment established the annual award this year to honor artists whose work inspires environmental awareness and stewardship in others, according to the school.
An executive committee selected Redford “for his unique and central role as an artist, his moving portrayal of the natural world as an integral character in his films and his strong and effective environmental advocacy.”
While at Duke, Redford will meet with students and faculty members and tour environmental research facilities at the Nicholas School.
He has lobbied Congress on behalf of the environment and the arts, advocating for renewable energy, the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, the preservation of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other wilderness lands and against global warming.
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