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Tribute: Wangari Maathai, First African Woman to Win Nobel Peace Prize (1940-2011)

"I will be a hummingbird" - Wangari Maathai

Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who went on to become the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, died of cancer at the age of 71. Tributes from leaders around the world in the press praise her as one of the most widely respected women on the continent.
She founded a movement in 1977 to plant trees across Kenya that would fight erosion while creating firewood for fuel and jobs for women

Her Green Belt Movement spread across the continent planting more than 30 million trees and helping nearly 900,000 women.
She won the Peace Prize in 2004 for what the Nobel committee called “her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.” It was a moment of immense pride in Kenya and across Africa.
Her ideas for promoting sustainability and community-building inspired similar environmental efforts in other countries.

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Tyndall's climate message, 150 years on

There's a welter of environmental anniversaries this year, notably the 50th birthday of WWF and the 40th of both Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth International.
Much less trumpeted, but in its own way more significant, is one that dates back to the middle of the 19th Century, which is being marked this week by a special conference in Dublin.

Can Hot Air Be Free Fuel Of The Future?


You don't have to be a science major to know that heat rises: Just step into an attic on a hot summer day. But what you might not know is that this basic scientific reality could also help create clean energy for entire cities....