Wangari Maathai
Wangari MaathaiReplenishing the earth

Replenishing the earth

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Replenishing the earth

spiritual values for healing ourselves and the world

An impassioned call to heal the wounds of our planet and ourselves through the tenets of our spiritual traditions draws inspiration from many faiths, celebrating and renewing their mandates to "repair the world.

About Wangari Maathai

Wangari Maathai was a Kenyan environmental and political activist. She was educated in the United States at Mount St. Scholastica and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as the University of Nairobi in Kenya. In the 1970s, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. In 1984, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, and in 2004, she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for “her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.

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It was not all that impressive, but that's not the fault of the vendor, 'Thanks'.It is rare for me to think LESS of someone after reading her book!.
This is a wonderful book that everyone should read. We all should take care of the earth and this book helps you realize what a gift Wangari was to the earth and the people she touched.
I'm not sure why they do that.This is what Commander Eileen Collins, the first woman to lead a United States Shuttle mission, said when she looked back to the earth in 2005 and saw some of the deep wounds of the earth, in the man made environmental devastation of central Africa.
Wangari speaks in clear language about the benefits of a nurturing, protective, and symbiotic relationship with the earth. She has a pointed way of writing, and brings up examples of cultures (mainly African, as is the point) and religions, along with some positive activist groups, that have relied on Earth's abundances more closely in the past, and continue to advocate for that reliance that mankind has on Earth.
This is an extended articulation of the ethical values that guide and support the Green Belt Movement and Wangari Maathai herself, in environmental justice and human rights work. The pace is slow and meditative and goes on a bit too long (definitely read Unbowed first), but the ideas are powerful.

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