Wangari Maathai
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Wangari Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya, in 1940. She is the founder of the Green Belt Movement, which, through networks of rural women, has planted more than forty-five million trees across Kenya since 1977. In 2002, she was elected to Kenya’s Parliament in the first free elections in a generation, and in 2003, she was appointed deputy minister for the Environment and Natural Resources. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 2004, she has three grown children and lives and works in Nairobi. Her newest book Replenishing the Earth (Doubleday Religion) is in stores now. For more information, please visit her website.

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Spiritual Environmentalism: Healing Ourselves by Replenishing the Earth

Posted October 15, 2010 | 09:01:57 (EST)

During my more than three decades as an environmentalist and campaigner for democratic rights, people have often asked me whether spirituality, different religious traditions, and the Bible in particular had inspired me, and influenced my activism and the work of the Green Belt Movement (GBM). Did I conceive conservation of...

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Women Can Lead the Way in Tackling Development and Climate Challenges Together

Posted September 20, 2010 | 13:05:13 (EST)

The time has come for women leaders to influence the narrative on climate change and how we address its impacts. The devastating floods in Pakistan illustrate how natural and man-made disasters can in a matter of days wipe out years of development progress. The floods in Pakistan have affected 20...

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