What inspired Wangari Maathai to find the Green Belt Movement?
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Well the point of the GBM is to plant trees to conserve the enviroment and improve the quality of life of Africans. In her Nobel prize speech she talked about a stream that ran close to her house when she was a child and now that that stream is dried up and forces people to walk long distances to get water. I suppose her inspiration was to improve others quality of life.
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(m)\n\ngoto the following website to view the value chain analysis\n\nhttp://www.fao.org/es/esc/common/ecg/108845_en_kenya_web.pdf
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JOMO kENYATA I THINK.
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Paul Greengrass is the writer/director.
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See if you can find the book, Defining The Peace, by, Jennifer E. Brooks..  It , I think has what you are asking. James Oglethorpe founded Ga. in 1733.
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Environmentalism as it is known today is a relatively new phemonenon. It didn't really begin until the 1960s.\nHowever, there were precursors to that movement such as John Muir and Aldo Leopold.\nhttp://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/sontag/muir.htm\n\nThe Secretary of the Interior during most of Wilson's administration was Franklin Lane. Here is a very brief bio;\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_K._Lane\n\nBetter bio at NPS:\nhttp://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/sontag/lane.htm\n\nThe most significant achievement of Lane's administration at Interior was the creation of the National Parks Service.\n\nThough his "utilitarian" philosophy regarding natural resources (especially water storage and use) was at times fanatical, his ultimate intentions were never malicious. In Park Service lore, he will be remembered chiefly for three things: being a primary advocate for Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy Dam: coaxing Stephen T. Mather to come to Washington to organize and run what would become the NPS; and being the secretary of the interior under whose administration the National Park Service was penned into existence.\n\nAs secretary of the interior, Lane visited many park areas between 1914 and 1918. He toured pre-national park Acadia (Sieur de Monts National Monument) with its "foundling father" George B. Dorr and struck up an immediate friendship with him. His fondness for Dorr and his excitement over the park clinched the area's national park designation. Though Mather and Albright sharply protested some of Lane's resource management ideas, the secretary nearly always stood behind his chiefs, giving strength to a far-flung, under staffed, infant agency operating on an inadequate budget.\n\nI would see if there are books about Lane.
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He has taught us the power of struggle without giving in to opposition.  He has taught us the importance of high ideals and principled objectives.\n\n\nMandela's words, "The struggle is my life," are not to be taken lightly.\n\nNelson Mandela personifies struggle. He is still leading the fight against apartheid with extraordinary vigour and resilience after spending nearly three decades of his life behind bars. He has sacrificed his private life and his youth for his people, and remains South Africa's best known and loved hero.\n\nMandela has held numerous positions in the ANC: ANCYL secretary (1948); ANCYL president (1950); ANC Transvaal president (1952); deputy national president (1952) and ANC president (1991).\n\nHe was born at Qunu, near Umtata on 18 July 1918.\n\nHis father, Henry Mgadla Mandela, was chief councillor to Thembuland's acting paramount chief David Dalindyebo. When his father died, Mandela became the chief's ward and was groomed for the chieftainship.\n\nMandela matriculated at Healdtown Methodist Boarding School and then started a BA degree at Fort Hare. As an SRC member he participated in a student strike and was expelled, along with the late Oliver Tambo, in 1940. He completed his degree by correspondence from Johannesburg, did articles of clerkship and enrolled for an LLB at the University of the Witwatersrand.\n\nIn 1944 he helped found the ANC Youth League, whose Programme of Action was adopted by the ANC in 1949.\n\nMandela was elected national volunteer-in-chief of the 1952 Defiance Campaign. He travelled the country organising resistance to discriminatory legislation.\n\nHe was given a suspended sentence for his part in the campaign. Shortly afterwards a banning order confined him to Johannesburg for six months. During this period he formulated the "M Plan", in terms of which ANC branches were broken down into underground cells.\n\nBy 1952 Mandela and Tambo had opened the first black legal firm in the country, and Mandela was both Transvaal president of the ANC and deputy national president.\n\nA petition by the Transvaal Law Society to strike Mandela off the roll of attorneys was refused by the Supreme Court.\n\nIn the 'fifties, after being forced through constant bannings to resign officially from the ANC, Mandela analysed the Bantustan policy as a political swindle. He predicted mass removals, political persecutions and police terror.\n\nFor the second half of the 'fifties, he was one of the accused in the Treason Trial. With Duma Nokwe, he conducted the defence.\n\nWhen the ANC was banned after the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, he was detained until 1961 when he went underground to lead a campaign for a new national convention.\n\nUmkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the ANC, was born the same year. Under his leadership it launched a campaign of sabotage against government and economic installations.\n\nIn 1962 Mandela left the country for military training in Algeria and to arrange training for other MK members.\n\nOn his return he was arrested for leaving the country illegally and for incitement to strike. He conducted his own defence. He was convicted and jailed for five years in November 1962. While serving his sentence, he was charged, in the Rivonia trial, with sabotage and sentenced to life imprisonment.\n\nA decade before being imprisoned, Mandela had spoken out against the introduction of Bantu Education, recommending that community activists "make every home, every shack or rickety structure a centre of learning".\n\nRobben Island, where he was imprisoned, became a centre for learning, and Mandela was a central figure in the organised political education classes.\n\nIn prison Mandela never compromised his political principles and was always a source of strength for the other prisoners.\n\nDuring the 'seventies he refused the offer of a remission of sentence if he recognised Transkei and settled there.\n\nIn the 'eigh
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Try here:\n\nhttp://greenmm.blogspot.com/atom.xml
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Emilio Mwai Kibaki (born November 15, 1931) is Kenya's president, an economist, and a political leader.
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What transport problem?  If you are searching for bus fare (nauli), this website is not a likely place to find it.  \n\nWhat is your question?  Sema tena, kwa kiswahili ukihitaji.
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I am a Soka Gakkai International Lotus Sutra buddhist. We believe that everyone can achieve enlightenment and make no distinction between men and women, rich or poor, young or old, class, race or whatever. \n\nThe founder of my path was Nichiren, a 13th-century Japanese fisherman-monk who thought Buddhism should be democratic and not just belong to the rich, the aristocratic or the priests. Everyone can achieve enlightenment, here in this world, and the best thing is you don't have to live multiple lives to erase bad karma and become happy, you can do so now if you take responsibility for your actions! In order to achieve this we chant "nam-myo-ho-renge-kyo", meaning the spiritual and the material work together for the development of the human soul, symbolized by the lotusflower that starts in the dark and mud and then grows towards the light to open as a beautiful flower. Lotus Sutra Buddhism is said to summarize the whole of Buddhist teachings in one path, and Nichiren summarized Lotus Sutra buddhism in the single mantra mentioned above. SGI is a lay movement that believes World Peace can be achieved through culture and education of the Buddhist values of the Soka Gakkai. (Soka Gakkai means: creating value). The lay movement has no temples but we regularly meet at people's homes, share the amazing experiences we have, eat, drink, dance, sing and celebrate! We chant everyday for as long as we like, and we believe that earthly desires fuel our journey towards enlightenment. (for instance, I might want to have a car. So I get a job and work for one, and on the way I realize I work with others and I learn from them, and after that I may realize that four people can fit into a car and we can travel together! And it can be used for something good like taking a sick old lady to the hospital). And after the car I may want something else, and achieve that, too. And so I develop on to become a kinder, greater-hearted human being.)\n\nIn order to keep the intentions of our movement pure and because of some unhappy experiences in the past, SGI-members do not trade amongst each other. Money is something that should be carefully separated from religious practice.  \n\nI don't feel my life is restricted because of my beliefs. Rather, my vision widens because I learn to understand that my life is connected to that of everyone on this planet and to all life, and in this I have a place and a responsibility to develop with courage, wisdom and compassion, to become a fully human being.   \n\nI believe because I know that everyone on this planet is related. Since material circumstances do not show what I believe, I believe that Love is what binds us all as the human race and other inhabitants of this earth (animals as well). Faith is the all-encompassing instrument, field and tool to demonstrate this.\n\nOur philosophy is not opposed to homosexuality. We look at the soul's journey, and whatever state or situation people are in says something about where they are in their development. Since everyone has the enlightenment potential, we respect the soul's individual path. The ultimate goal for everyone is to become happy. We chant to remember and realize this, while working. So: chanting and undertaking action!\n\nNichiren buddhism contains a very important tale: a nine-year old girl approached the Buddha with a small gift for which he granted her immediate enlightenment. She told all the old wise Indian male scholars and disciples who were sitting around him: "Watch me achieve immediate enlightenment" and changed appearance before their eyes. The Buddha did this to teach them humility, for as you know, women were not considered very worthy by men in India in those times (and still are not, in many places).\n\nSince I've grown up in profoundly multi-religious and multi-cultural societies, I see no deep differences among the religions in this world. Just differences according to place, time and culture. \n
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Truth and enlightenment. There was an old story I remember hearing once, that in ancient times Kilimanjaro was considered to be the source of enlightenment. People would try to reach its peak and they would never return. Unexplained. In E. Hemmingway's version, a leopard was found there. The word kilemakyaro exists in the Chagga language, Meaning impossible journey. In all of Heminways writings he lets the pleasure of nature balance with the scope of death. Hemingway had constructed his life vigorously, but at the end, his body and his mind were spent. No further achievement seemed possible and there were no summits on the horizon, except perhaps the “House of God” (ie. just like the top of kilimanjaro it is an ultimate journey) toward which, like the dying protagonist in The Snows of Kilimanjaro, he could aspire. This melding of art and life, of triumph and defeat, of a winner at the end of the line, is a sublime, although tragic, image of Hemingway in his final hour. I think Hemingway could identify with the leopard. It knew its time was comming and to began it's accent early seeking a final resting place. One moment of absolute truth.
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GREENPEACE the international NGO is working onissues concerning earth mainly focusing on Global warming.Infact GREENPEACE was the organisation that lobbyed a lot and which is still working with world organisations ,groups and countries
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The first Chipko action took place spontaneously in April 1973 in the village of Mandal in the upper Alakananda valley and over the next five years spread to many districts of the Himalayas in Uttar Pradesh. \n\nIn the 1970s, an organized resistance to the destruction of forests spread throughout India and came to be known as the Chipko movement. The name of the movement comes from the word 'embrace', as the villagers hugged the trees, and prevented the contractors' from felling them. \n\nFor more about the movement visit http://edugreen.teri.res.in/explore/forestry/chipko.htm
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hi peta-gaye c\n\nof course is being considered the sustainability on all the development.\n\n:>peace
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If you are part of nature, then is it meddling?  Richard Dawkins wrote a book called The Selfish Gene where he discussed the concept of memes as opposed to genes.  Memes are ideas - like irrigation, the wheel, etc. - that were devised by man and changed the planet.  Man's concept of the wheel - which made roads happen of course - resulted from nature just as forests resulted from it.  To go into the concept of "right" you need to ask about values and then you are confronted with a range of preferences which is never so simple as right and wrong.  Your range of preferences may differ from mine, and there needs to be accomodation of individual rights vs. public good, and that's a whole other discussion.
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Green with a jungle theme border.