2003, ISBN: 159056040X

[EAN: 9781590560402], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Lantern Publishing & Media, US], A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by not… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781590560402], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Lantern Publishing & Media, US], A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya in 1940. In 1960, she won a K ennedy scholarship to study in America and earned a master's degree in biol ogy from the University of Pittsburgh and became the first woman in East Af rica to earn a Ph.D. Returning to Kenya in 1966, Wangari Maathai was shocked at the degradation of the forests and the farmland caused by deforestation. Heavy rains had wa shed away much of the topsoil, silt was clogging the rivers, and fertilizer s were depriving the soil of nutrients. Wangari decided to solve the proble m by planting trees. Under the auspices of the National Council of Women of Kenya, of which she was chairwoman from 1981 to 1987, she introduced the idea of planting trees through citizen foresters in 1976, and called this new organization the Gr een Belt Movement (GBM). She continued to develop GBM into broad-based, gra ssroots organization whose focus was women's groups planting of trees in or der to conserve the environment and improve their quality of life. Through the Green Belt Movement, Wangari Maathai has assisted women in planting mor e than 20 million trees on their farms and on schools and church compounds in Kenya and all over East Africa. In Africa, as in many parts of the world, women are responsible for meals and collecting firewood. Increasing deforestation has not only meant increasing desertification, but it has also meant that women have had to travel further and further afield in order to collect the firewood. This in turn has., Books<

2003, ISBN: 159056040X

[EAN: 9781590560402], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Rudolf Steiner Pr], May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages., Books

2003, ISBN: 9781590560402

Softcover, Gebraucht, guter Zustand, Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less., [PU: Lantern Books]