Wangari Muta Maathai (1940-2011)was a political and environmental activist and the founder of the Green Belt Movement, a foundation that worked in environmental conservation and women rights. She was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2004 for her outstanding work in “sustainable development, democra...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook temperate belt [′tem·prət ‚belt] (climatology) A belt around the earth within which the annual mean temperature is less than 20°C (68°F) and the mean temperature of the warmest month is higher than 10°C (50°F). ...
From Spring Green it’s about 45 miles southwest toNew Glarus, a bit of Switzerland transplanted to Wisconsin. Swiss immigrants came to the area in 1845 from the Canton of Glarus and settled here because they found the region similar to home, just without the Alps. You’ll feel like yodeli...
it was a center for progressive thought and was influential in the birth of China's New Culture Movement, the May Fourth Movement and many other significant
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Think about three seemingly unlikely Nobel Peace Prizes: one in 1970 for the plant pathologist and breeder Norman Borlaug who is considered to be the founder of agriculture’s Green Revolution, one in 2004 for the biologist Wangari Maathai who founded the Green Belt Movement, and one in 2007 ...
The second half of the 1870’s and the 1880’s witnessed the rise of the “movement for freedom and people’s rights,” the Minken Undo. The movement gained the support of liberal circles of the ruling classes, which had sought the adoption of a constitution, and broader democratic strata...
aIn 1977, Wangari Maathai started the Green Belt Movement. The goal is to plant trees all over Africa, to replace those cut down over the years. Trees are the main source of cooking fuel. Trees also protect wildlife. And they keep nutrients in the soil and help prevent flooding.[translate...
“internal autonomy,” and an autonomous government council and an autonomous general assembly were created in the colony. Four years later, the growth of the national liberation movement forced Spain to grant political independence to Spanish Equatorial Guinea. The independent Republic of Equatorial ...
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