The Trees Crusader Who Became a Political Icon
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In the second part of a special report on Kenya&#39;s first Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, religious writer Joseph Ngala recounts her environmental crusade through the Green Belt Movement and how a tree-planting campaign turned into a bitter
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The music of Peter Garrett has always been politically charged. Now the towering, baldheaded former singer of Midnight Oil is charged with practicing politics Â as Australia's new environment minister.
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By Caroline Roberts  If you're looking for a green career, forestry could be for you. With the environment and global warming high on the political agenda, public funding has been pouring into tree planting, and that means more jobs in the sector.
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Ron Kind, a Democratic representative from Wisconsin dairyland, is making a name for himself as a crusader for big changes in farm policy.
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Announcement a remarkable twist for a candidate who raised more than $100 million last year.
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The Democratic candidate has marshalled star power as never before in a campaign. And he's putting them to work.
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The green crusader's mansion uses 10 times more power than typical Nashville homeowners, prompting calls of hypocrisy from conservatives. By the Associated Press.
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To prosecutors, Robert "Roy" van de Hoek is a vandal with pruning shears. To supporters of native California shrubs and trees, he's a martyr.
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Among rare-fruit devotees, Mr. Whitman was hailed as the only person to have coaxed a mangosteen tree into bearing fruit outdoors in the continental United States.
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Read on to find out why this sound leader earns such devotion.
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By Mike Avok, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Jun. 1--NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. -- A tree planter from Africa is the winner of this year's J. Sterling Morton Award, the highest individual honor given by the National Arbor Day Foundation.
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How the Arizona senator, once a POW 'pastor,' finds purpose in his beliefs and survival.
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KASSEL, Germany -- In 1934, top Nazi party official Hermann Goering received a seemingly mundane request from the Reich Forestry Service. A fur farm near here was seeking permission to release a batch of exotic bushy-tailed critters into the wild to "enrich the local fauna" and give bored hunters...
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Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan firebrand who mobilized the women of Africa in a powerful crusade against deforestation called the "Green Belt Movement," will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004.
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Given the choice between cuddling up with a Washington lobbyist and a potted plant, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney chose fake foliage over a real Beltway insider.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai has become the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for aiding the continent&#39;s poor with a campaign to plant millions of trees to slow down deforestation.
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KENNETT TOWNSHIP, Pa., Sept. 20  /PRNewswire/ -- Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) Secretary Michael DiBerardinis is challenging Chester County's 16 urban centers to launch a new phase of TreeVitalize, Governor Edward G.