Showing posts with label environmentalists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environmentalists. Show all posts

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Kenyans bid farewell to green warrior and Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai

Kenyans bid farewell to laureate Wangari Maathai

Thousands of Kenyans paid their respects to Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai on Saturday at a state funeral held in a park where she had once been beaten up for holding a protest.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Together, as the new 350.org, we'll be speaking with one voice. Shouting, actually -- trying to drown out the talk from dirty energy and dirty money.

"I wish there weren't so many groups. It's confusing. I don't know who to volunteer for. Wouldn't it work better if you all got together?"
This isn't quite as obvious as it sounds. Different groups have sprung up at different times to fill different niches. You wouldn't look out at a marsh and say, "It would be much nicer if there were just one kind of frog to keep track of." Diversity has some very real purposes.
But there are moments when unity is essential -- and this is one of them.