Green Belt Movement

'Green News Report' - October 4, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Epa, Nigeria, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green Belt Movement, Green News Report, Pollution, Solar Decathlon, Coal, Radiation, Engineering, Military, Radioactivity, Oil Spill, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Solar Power, Global Warming, Bp, Energy, Lobbying, Nuclear Energy, Environmentalism, Shell Oil, Texas, Energy Efficiency, Koch Brothers, Dept of Energy, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Koch Industries, Sustainability, Logging, Natural Gas, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Solyndra, China, Salmon, Navajo Nation, Shipping, Forests, Salmonella, Factory Farming, Mining, Uranium, James Hansen, Tuvalu, Green News
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...

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Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Remembered By Mentee

Turnstyle | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Nobel Prize, Impact News, Wangari Maathai, Environment, Green Belt Movement, Kenya, Reforestation, Trees, Impact, Green News
Turnstyle

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'Green News Report' - September 29, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Wangari Maathai, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green Belt Movement, Green News Report, Pollution, Coal, Rick Perry, Radiation, Engineering, Tar Sands, Oil Spill, Mountaintop Removal, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Africa, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Solar Power, Global Warming, Bp, Energy, Fema, Fukushima, Nuclear Energy, Environmentalism, Energy Efficiency, Dept of Energy, BRAD BLOG, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News, Sustainability, Natural Gas, Japan, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Solar Decathlon, Gibson Guitars, Radioactivity, Lobbying, Pakistan, Texas, Peak Coal, Cafo, Bpa, Logging, Santa Fe, Green News
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...

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'Green News Report' - September 27, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: House of Representatives, Fracking, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Climategate, Coal, Rick Perry, Tar Sands, Oil Spill, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Africa, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Solar Power, Global Warming, Bp, Energy, Poverty, Fukushima, Nuclear Energy, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Barack Obama, Energy Efficiency, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Protests, Green News, Sustainability, Japan, Hydraulic Fracturing, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Solyndra, Green Belt Movement, Indigenous Environmental Network, Climate Science, Wangari Maathai, Fema, Indigenous People, Keystone XL Pipeline, Herman Cain, Lithium-Ion Battery, US Military, Moving Planet, Engineering, Radiation, Mountaintop Removal, Electric Cars, Overfishing, Dept of Energy, Natural Gas, China, Green News
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...

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Wangari Maathai: A Dream of Trees

Jennifer Buffett | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Green Belt Movement, Nobel Peace Prize, National Council of Women of Kenya, NoVo Foundation, Spirit: The 7th Fire, Wendell Berry, Africa, The Peace of Wild Things, Ojibwe, Kenya, Wangari Maathai, World News
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.

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Wangari Maathai and the Real Work of Hope

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Environment, Africa, Wangari Maathai, Green Belt Movement, Kenya, World News
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.

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Wangari Maathai: Champion for Conservation, Africa and the World

Mark Tercek | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Green News, Green Belt Movement, Wangari Maathai, Green News
Mark Tercek

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

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Wangari Maathai And Why She Matters

Rev. Ruth Hawley-Lowry | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Green Belt Movement, Wangari Maathai Relection, Freedom Corner Kenya, Wangari Maathai, Desmond Tutu Wangari Maathai, Wangari Maathai Death, Wangari Maathai Memorial, Wangari Maathai Kenya, Kenya, Impact News
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.

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Lynne Peeples

Wangari Maathai Knew Nature Pays For Itself

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: The Nature Conservancy, Ecosystem Services, Water Pollution, Wangari Maathai, Nature, Environment, Green News, Clean Water, Green Belt Movement, Water Conservation, Wangari Mathai, Deforestation, Maathai, Mark Tercek, Green News

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 --...

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First African Woman To Win Nobel Peace Prize Dies

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO and TOM ODULA | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Video, Poverty, Wangari Maathai Dies, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dies, Wangari Maathai, Green Belt Movement, Wangari Maathai Death, Wangari Maathai Obituary, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, World News

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...

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Interview with Wangari Maathai, Environmental Activist and Nobel Laureate

Marianne Schnall | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Green Belt Movement, Kenya, Africa, Wangari Maathai, Environment, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, Green Living, Peace, Congo, Global Warming, Nobel Women's Initiative, Sustainable Living, Living, Climate Change, Green News
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.

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

Jimmy Seidita | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Belt Movement, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jacques Cousteau, Wangari Maathai, Environmentalism, Green Living, Environmental Activism, Chicago News
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.

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