Don Henley of Eagles fame presenter actor and environmentalist Robert Redford with the Walden Woods Project’s 2014 Global Environmental Leadership Award in Boston this week.
Henley is a co-founder of the Walden Woods Project, a non-profit organisation to preserve the land, literature, and legacy of the quintessential American author, philosopher, and naturalist, Henry David Thoreau, to cultivate an ethic of environmental stewardship and social responsibility.
Robert Redford was given the award for his environmental initiatives. Redford has received many environmental awards over the years dating back to the 1987 United Nations Global 500 Award and including the Audubon Medal Award, the Earth Day International Award and the Nature Conservancy Award.
This was the second time the Global Environmental Leadership Award was presented. The first was to President Bill Clinton in 2012.
Redford has just completed the production ‘A Walk In The Woods’ based on the Bill Bryson novel and starring Nick Nolte. The film will be released early 2015.
Henley awarded Redford the award at the Walden Woods Project fundraising dinner in Boston. 600 people attended the dinner and raised $1.6 million for the Project.
Eagles will tour Australia in February for Frontier Touring.
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