Green Belt Movement

'Green News Report' - October 4, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 12.04.2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Koch Indu...

Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Remembered By Mentee

Turnstyle | Posted 11.30.2011

Turnstyle

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'Green News Report' - September 29, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.29.2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Climate c...

'Green News Report' - September 27, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.27.2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Governmen...

Wangari Maathai: A Dream of Trees

Jennifer Buffett | Posted 11.27.2011

Jennifer Buffett

In formally establishing the Green Belt Movement in 1977, Wangari was wise enough to see that for the disempowered, planting trees was in fact a radical act of self-assertion, a method of laying claim to the life-giving power of one small corner of the Earth.

Wangari Maathai and the Real Work of Hope

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 11.27.2011

Frances Moore Lappe

As the result of Maathai's work, tens of thousands of village women who had been taught to defer to chiefs, husbands, colonial authorities, multinational corporate marketers, and to disparage their own traditions and common sense gained courage.

Wangari Maathai: Champion for Conservation, Africa and the World

Mark Tercek | Posted 11.27.2011

Mark Tercek

The loss of Wangari Maathai is a loss not just for the environmental community, but for the world as a whole.

Wangari Maathai And Why She Matters

Rev. Ruth Hawley-Lowry | Posted 11.26.2011

Rev. Ruth Hawley-Lowry

Though most Americans have never heard of her, I invite you to learn why so many of us in the world mourn today.

Lynne Peeples

Wangari Maathai Knew Nature Pays For Itself

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.21.2012

Wangari Maathai knew her country's wilderness was priceless. Still, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate -- who died of cancer on Sunday at the age of 71 --...

First African Woman To Win Nobel Peace Prize Dies

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO and TOM ODULA | Posted 11.26.2011

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya's former president called her a mad woman. Seen as a threat to the rich and powerful, Wangari Maathai was beaten, arreste...

Interview with Wangari Maathai, Environmental Activist and Nobel Laureate

Marianne Schnall | Posted 09.26.2011

Marianne Schnall

We are on one planet; some of the impact of what human beings do in one corner of the world is going to affect people in a distant corner of the world.

Where Have You Gone Jacques Cousteau? Wangari Maathai Comes to Chicago

Jimmy Seidita | Posted 05.25.2011

Jimmy Seidita

Who is the most famous environmentalist in the world? A pretty straightforward question, but there isn't one obvious person that comes to mind.