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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

The Master Tree-Planter Speaks

The Master Tree-Planter Speaks

Part III: Soldier Planters, River-Keeping Children and Green Belt’s Future

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

Part III: Soldier Planters, River-Keeping Children and Green Belt’s Future

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

Greening Kenya

Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai talks about her work started in the late seventies encouraging African women to plant trees as a way to enrich their lives and help the environment. One of Kenya’s leading political dissidents, Maathai has overseen the planting of 30 million trees and has been a leading proponent of environmental […]

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Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai explains how deforestation affects us all

Environment

This afternoon in New York City, Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai and former Vice President Al Gore will answer questions about deforestation and rainforest preservation at a private roundtable moderated by Dan Rather.

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