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Women: The Unsung Heroes of the Environment

Bianca Jagger | Posted 05.08.2013 | Green
Read More: Environment, Women, Climate Change, Jane Goodall, International Women's Day, Women's History, Wangari Maathai, Rachel Carson, Green News
Bianca Jagger

More than ever, as we face the challenges of combating climate change, deforestation, the melting of the Arctic sea ice, we will need these women: their skills, their wisdom and their knowledge.

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The Legacy of Wangari Maathai: Women as Green Agents of Change

Jamie Bechtel | Posted 12.16.2012 | Green
Read More: Green Belt Movement, New Course, Wangari Maathai, Environment, Women, Women-and-the-Environment, Nobel Peace Prize, Jamie Bechtel, Tree Planting, Kenya, Reforestation, Wanjira Mathai, Green News
Jamie Bechtel

The unexpected impact of Dr. Wangari Maathai's work was to show that the solutions to our many societal and planetary ills often rests with those who bear the greatest burden.

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A Million (More) Trees for Wangari

Turk Pipkin | Posted 11.25.2012 | Green
Read More: Nobel, Hope, Turk Pipkin, Wangari Maathai, Kieni Youth Million Tree, Wangari Maathai Death, Nobelity Project, Greenbelt Movement, Mahiga, Trees, Building Hope, Green News
Turk Pipkin

Though I am about as far as possible from being a rural Kenyan woman, Wangari changed my life as well by the beauty and brilliance of her words and deeds, and by taking my hand saying, "Come to Kenya. You will love it."

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Planting the Seeds of Peace

Hayden Bixby | Posted 05.27.2012 | Women
Read More: Girls, Independent Lens, Women, Human Rights, Kenya, Civil Rights, Wangari Maathai, Environment, Rush Limbaugh, San Francisco, Nobel Prize, Women News
Hayden Bixby

I hope that the world our daughters help construct will continue to "plant the seeds of peace" -- from San Francisco to Nairobi and back.

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Celebrating Visionary Women of the World

Angella Nazarian | Posted 05.05.2012 | Women
Read More: Inspirational, Zaha Hadid, Anais Nin, Leadership, Marina Silva, Wangari Maathai, Estee Lauder, International Women's Day, Simone De Beauvoir, Amma, Master Cheng Yen, Gertrude Berg, Self-Esteem, Rigoberta Menchu, Angella Nazarian, Somaly Mam, Mentors, Conchita Cintron, Jacqueline Novogratz, Frida Kahlo, Women, Helen Suzman, Personal Growth, Pioneers of the Possible, Golda Meir, Celebrating Visionary Women, Slidepollajax, Ella Fitzgerald, Nawal El Moutawakel, Visionary, Forugh Farrokhzad, Women's Day, Women News
Angella Nazarian

My hope is that the stories of these visionary women present to us the flame of the passionate life, the knife of insight, and the courage to stand for what one sees without looking away.

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WATCH: In Memoriam: Those We've Lost Along the Way

Posted 12.21.2011 | Black Voices
Read More: Year-in-Review, Esther Gordy Edwards, Chester Mcglockton Dies, Rev-Fred-Shuttlesworth, Bubba Smith, Cesaria Evora, Martina-Davis-Correia, Derrick Bell, Wangari Maathai, Nate Dogg, Ofield Dukes, Gil Scott-Heron, Patrice Oneal, Nick Ashford, Loleatta-Holloway-Dead, Pinetop Perkins Blues Legend, Jessy Dixon, 2011 Deaths, Joe Frazier, Clarence Clemons, Sylvia-Robinson, Slim-Dunkin, Howard Tate, Mia Amber Davis, Clarice-Taylor-Dies, Nadine Winter, Heavy D, Vesta-Williams-Found-Dead, M-Bone, Troy Davis, Black Voices News

2011 was a monumental year in a lot of ways. Sadly, we lost many amazing minds and talents along the way. Here's a round of those we've lost, alo...

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African Women: A Celebration of Achievements

Atim Oton | Posted 12.28.2011 | Black Voices
Read More: African Women, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Ory Okolloh, Leymah Gbowee, Akua Sena Dansua, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Angelique Kidjo, Wangari Maathai, Obiageli Ezekwesili, Dambisa Moyo, The Nobel Prize, Nobel Peace Prize, Black Voices News
Atim Oton

As an African woman, I declare: The Nobel Prize got it right, it celebrated three African Women. African Women are doing the work in the trenches. We often forget the doers and usually acknowledges the talkers.

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Echoes of Our Past, Visions of Our Future: In Tribute to Maathai, Sirleaf and Gbowee

Jackie Copeland-Carson | Posted 12.15.2011 | Black Voices
Read More: Women's Empowerment, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Leymah-Gbowee-Liberia, Leymah Gbowee, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Nobel Peace Prize, Tawakkul-Karman-Nobel-Peace-Prize, Leymah Gboweee Nobel Peace Prize, Wangari Maathai, Tawakul Karman, Wangari Maathai Death, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Black Voices News
Jackie Copeland-Carson

Our past and our future converged as we laid to rest an international heroine of the Pan-African Movement, Wangari Maathai, and the world celebrated the contributions of our women leaders.

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Suffocating in Iran

Melody Moezzi | Posted 12.12.2011 | Green
Read More: Iran, Human Rights, Islamic Republic of Iran, World Health Organization, Iran Protests, Wangari Maathai, Environment, Environmentalism, Tehran, Air Pollution, Green News
Melody Moezzi

I left Iran early last time. Not because I wanted to, but because I couldn't breathe. It was mid-December 1999, and the air was heavy with a thick black smog.

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Women Like Sirleaf and Gbowee Clear Africa's Path to Prosperity

Susan Davis | Posted 12.07.2011 | Women
Read More: Leymah Gbowee, Wangari Maathai, Tawakul Karman, Liberia, Nobel Peace Prize, Global Poverty, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Women in Africa, Women News
Susan Davis

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Leyman Gbowee and Tawakul Karman speaks to the crucial role women have played in securing peace in former conflict zones.

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Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Remembered By Mentee

Turnstyle | Posted 11.30.2011 | Green
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 | Green
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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Wangari Maathai: Colleague, Friend, Inspiration

Mia MacDonald | Posted 11.29.2011 | Green
Read More: Environment, Women's Rights, Human Rights, Wangari Maathai Death, Wangari Maathai, Africa, Green News
Mia MacDonald

Visionary founder of the Green Belt Movement, Wangari Maathai was an advocate in Africa and beyond for social justice, human rights, democracy, and peace.

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'Green News Report' - September 27, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.27.2011 | Green
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 and Education of Girls in Africa

Michael Mungai | Posted 11.27.2011 | Impact
Read More: Women's Rights, Nobel Peace Prize, Gender Equality, Women's Health, Africa, Wangari Maathai, Impact News
Michael Mungai

Looking at her, I saw what could be the future of Africa if the world invested in the education and empowerment of African girls.

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Wangari Maathai: A Dream of Trees

Jennifer Buffett | Posted 11.27.2011 | World
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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Losing a Friend

Carl Pope | Posted 11.27.2011 | Green
Read More: Nobel Peace Prize, Goldman Environmental Prize, Wangari Maathai, Green News
Carl Pope

Wangari Maathai died Sunday in Kenya. I have lost a dear friend, but the world has lost an amazing champion.

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Wangari Maathai and the Real Work of Hope

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 11.27.2011 | World
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 | Green
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 | Impact
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 | Green
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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Wangari Maathai: A 'Mighty Woman' Who Spoke Truth to Power

Kerry Kennedy | Posted 11.26.2011 | Women
Read More: Africa, Wangari Maathai, Women News
Kerry Kennedy

Most people think of Wangari Maathia as an environmentalist, planting trees. In reality, her environmental activism was part of a holistic approach to empowering women, advocating for democracy, and protecting the earth.

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On the Passing Of Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai

Al Gore | Posted 11.26.2011 | Green
Read More: Wangari Maathai, Green News
Al Gore

It is with great sadness that I learned today of Wangari Maathai's passing. Wangari overcame incredible obstacles to devote her life to service -- service to her children, to her constituents, to the women, and indeed all the people of Kenya -- and to the world as a whole.

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First African Woman To Win Nobel Peace Prize Dies

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO and TOM ODULA | Posted 11.26.2011 | World
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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United Nations Secretary-General Challenges Hollywood to Sound the Alarm on Climate Change

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Al Gore, Chevron, Kilimanjaro, Ed Begley Jr., Wangari Maathai, United Nations, Rajendra Pachauri, Obama, Hollywood, Don Cheadle, Marshall Herskovitz, Edward Norton, Larry King, UCLA-Hammer Museum, Climate Change, Charlize Theron, Summit on the Summit, Kenna, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Michael Franti, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

UCLA Hammer Museum hosted a "Global Creative Forum" on February 22, bringing together United Nations representatives, environmental experts and entertainment industry leaders.

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