The Real Deal

The selections for the Goldman Environmental Prize for 2006 have been announced. For those who were dismayed by Vanity Fair's Hollywood-skewed selection of eco-heroes (it was Vanity Fair after all), here's a proper antidote. Often called the environmental Nobel, the $125,000 award is granted each year to grassroots environmental activists from the world's six inhabited regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. This year's winners are pictured below. Rest assured, there's not a household name in the bunch.