Wangari Maathai

Planting the Seeds of Peace

Hayden Bixby | Posted 05.27.2012

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Originally published on Turnstylenews.com, a digital information service surfacing emerging stories in news, entertainment, art and culture; powered ...

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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

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

Read More: Environment, Women's Rights, Human Rights, Wangari Maathai Death, Wangari Maathai, Africa, Green News

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

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

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

Read More: Women's Rights, Nobel Peace Prize, Gender Equality, Women's Health, Africa, Wangari Maathai, Impact News

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

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

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

Read More: Nobel Peace Prize, Goldman Environmental Prize, Wangari Maathai, Green News

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

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

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

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

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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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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Wangari Maathai: A 'Mighty Woman' Who Spoke Truth to Power

Kerry Kennedy | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Africa, Wangari Maathai, Women News

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

Read More: Wangari Maathai, Green News

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

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

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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Learning from Africa

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lions, Kenya, Nairobi, Wangari Maathai, Africa, Green News

Tracking a large male lion (which we never overtook) behind a Maasai warrior/wildlife biologist brought home to me just how thoroughly Africa has scra...

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Advent: A Four-Week Course On Patience

Rev. Dr. James A. Kowalski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Patience, Wangari Maathai, Advent, Global Ethics, Christmas, God and Patience, Carl Sagan Cosmos, Advent Reflection, Global Oneness, Religion News

Advent waiting is the time of relinquishing our desire to have outcomes our way and on our schedule. Can we trust that what God has in store for us is worthier of wonder and awe than even our deepest hopes?

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Why Philanthropist Richard Goldman Died Happy

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Philanthropy, Richard Goldman, Wangari Maathai, Environment, Goldman Fund, San Francisco, Israel, Avoided Deforestation Partners, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Goldman Prize, California, Jewish Community, Bay Area, Green News

Richard N. Goldman, who co-founded the Goldman Prize, which gives annual awards to environmental activists on each of the six inhabited continents, died on Monday at the age of 90.

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