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Eco-Activist Wangari Maathai wins Nobel Peace Prize

 

Environmentalists across the world are celebrating today at the news

that Wangari Maathai, Kenyan activist and founder of the Green Belt

Movement, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Green Belt

Movement organized poor Kenyan women to plant and maintain some 30

million trees, at once battling the deforestation to which they are

disproportionately vulnerable, providing thousands of jobs, and

inspiring similar movements in other East African countries.

Maathai's story is inspiring in its own right, but it is doubly

significant that the Nobel committee is acknowledging, for the first

time, the crucial link between environmental health and peace. Geoff

Dabelko discusses the prize and its significance in Main Dish -- only

on the Grist Magazine website.

 

only in Grist: Kenyan environmental activist wins international

peace prize -- by Geoff Dabelko

<http://grist.org/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=3292>

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