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[CSR NEWS | csr-news.net] Wangari Maathai: Peace and Environmental Justice Taking Root ...: Francesca Rheannon and Bill Baue of Sea Change host an intimate chat with Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai about the links between environmental justice, women’s empowerment, democratic governance, and sustainability at the Marlboro College Graduate School, where Baue teaches. Maathai is touring the US promoting her new book, THE CHALLENGE FOR AFRICA, as well as the documentary, TAKING ROOT: The Vision of Wangari Maathai.

[Mefeedia Video Tag : pbs] TAKING ROOT: The Vision of Wangari Maathai | Film Clip #3 Video: Ask Wangari Maathai of Kenya. In 1977, she suggested rural women plant trees to address problems stemming from a degraded environment.

[Earth Focus] Wangari Maathai | Link TV: The Honorable Professor Maathai is the first woman, the first Kenyan and the first environmentalist to win the prize. She was selected for her role in founding the .

[Change.org's Stop Global Warming Blog] Stop Global Warming - Change.org: Taking Root: The Vision of ...: Organizing ever more outspoken and visible protests, Maathai and the Green Belt members eventually found themselves in political and physical confrontation with the regime of Kenyan dictator Daniel arap Moi, who had abrogated the right of association and outlawed group gatherings. Although Moi targeted them for reprisals (Maathai was among many women badly beaten by police during a months-long protest in 1992), the Green Belt members ultimately helped bring down his 24-year dictatorship.

[Sea Change Radio » Full Show] Wangari Maathai: Peace and Environmental Justice Taking Root: The story of Wangari Maathai, and the Green Belt Movement, is captured vividly in the documentary, TAKING ROOT.  The film won a bunch of awards in 2008.  Rheannon and Baue spoke with filmmakers Alan Dater and Lisa Merton of Marlboro Productions from their home studios.  The interview started with the question, what inspired them to tell the story of Wangari Maathai’s vision in film?

[Impromp2, The Community Blog] Impromp2, The Community Blog: Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari ...: TAKING ROOT: The Vision of Wangari Maathai tells the story of Kenya’s Green Belt Movement, a grassroots organization encouraging rural women and families to plant trees in community groups, and follows Maathai, the movement’s founder and the first environmentalist and African woman to win the Nobel Prize. Maathai discovered her life's work by reconnecting with the rural women with whom she had grown up.

[ITVS Beyond the Box Blog] Watch TAKING ROOT Tonight on Independent Lens: In 1977, she suggested rural women plant trees to address problems stemming from a degraded environment. Under her leadership, their tree-planting grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, defend human rights and promote democracy and brought Maathai the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.

[Kenya Safari Blog] Famous People from Kenya: Famous people from Kenya have shaped the course of the world's history in a myriad of ways and include Barack Obama (really?), world-famous environmentalist Wangari Maathai, novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o, corruption czar John Githongo, CNN journalist Zain Verjee and athletes Paul Tergat and Pamela Jelimo.

[DALLAS MOMS] DALLAS MOMS Blog | The Dallas Morning News: It's called Diamonds From Dust: 152 Portraits of Great Peacemakers. You'll get their takes on everyone from Mahatma Gandhi to Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmental activist who is known for caring for the earth.

[Worldfocus] In quest to develop, Africa risks squandering environment: Wangari Maathai is an environmental and political activist and the founder of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya. She also won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.

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