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Replanting Kenya

How Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai’s vision of planting a million trees launched the Green Belt Movement and empowered women across Africa.

Remembering Wangari Maathai

Out Of Africa

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Nobel Women Urge U.S. to Act on Climate Change

A Movement Leader Speaks

The Master Tree-Planter Speaks

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.

Whether it was ridicule, the responses of thr

A Movement Leader Speaks

Nobel Prize winning environmental leader Wangari Maathai talks about her recent book– and lays bare the way colonialism can strip a people of their culture.

The Master Tree-Planter Speaks

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.

Whether it was ridicule, the responses of thr

Part I: How to Persuade 100 Thousand Poor People to Plant Trees

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Wangari Maathai: A Watering Can, Some Seedlings, and the Greening of a Nation

Years ago, when Wangari Maathai looked around her native Kenya, she saw a bleak, rapidly degrading landscape of empty fields. In the face of growing hunger, Maathai managed to make connections that had eluded others, seeing in that same parched earth the