Episode 063 - Wangari Muta Maathai | Environmentalist

Alternate Title: A TREE-mendous Life

Emma tells Emlyn about Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai, the environmentalist, activist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner who founded the grassroots tree-planting campaign, the Greenbelt Movement. 

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Sources

Main Story - Wangari Maathai 

1. The Green Belt Movement
2. Maathai, Wangari, Unbowed: a Memoir. William Heinemann, London, 2007.
3. Wangari Maathai – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2020. Mon. 24 Aug 2020.
4. Perlez, Jane. “Nairobi Journal; Skyscraper's Enemy Draws a Daily Dose of Scorn.” The New York Times. 1989. https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/06/world/nairobi-journal-skyscraper-s-enemy-draws-a-daily-dose-of-scorn.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
5. Gettleman, Jeffrey. “Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dies at 71.” The New York Times. 2011. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/world/africa/wangari-maathai-nobel-peace-prize-laureate-dies-at-71.html

Women who Work 

1.  Press release by The Royal Society: https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/attenborough-prize/
2. Wikipedia on Alice Roberts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Roberts

Music

“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

“Work” by Rihanna

Cover Image

Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA - Wangari Maathai 2004 Nobel Peace prize winner