In November 2006 at the UN Nairobi Climate Change Conference, Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, and founder of the Green Belt movement in Africa, announced a United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) campaign - Plant for the Planet - Billion Tree Campaign. We would like to challenge FAWCO members to commit to this campaign by...
I have always loved trees. I was a champion tree climber in my youth and can still instantly spot ones that are "good climbers." Towering pines surround my family's vacation cabin in northern Minnesota and if I shut my eyes in a pine forest anywhere in the world, the...
By Paula D., past NGO Director and Valerie G., Environment Committee Chair
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Wangari Maathai, an African woman and environmentalist, adding a new dimension to the concept of peace. Maathai, who is Kenya's Deputy Environmental minister, was cited by the Nobel committee for her longtime leadership...
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For those of us who live in malaria-free countries, our risk of infection is small because it is limited to travel in areas where the disease is rampant. But if we try to imagine the situation of a subsistence farmer in sub-Saharan Africa, where the risk of infection and death from malaria is high, prevention becomes a constant and vital... |
