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Nobel Prize-winning environmental activist and scientist Wangari Maathai of Kenya returns to Living On Earth to talk with host Steve Curwood about some of the forces that shaped her courage and determination.
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Some of the most creative ideas about how to reforest developing countries come from a Kenyan woman. Wangari Maathai is the leader of the Green Belt tree-planting movement and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. In the first part of a two-part interview, host Steve Curwood talks with Wangari Maathai about her most recent work and about some of the events that helped shape her vision.