In her acceptance speech upon being the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for the social empowerment and environmental justice work of her Green Belt Movement, Wangari Maathai recalled playing in streams when she was a child, mistaking frogs eggs for beads and breaking them to release thousands of tadpoles. […]
Little more than one year after Lina Pohl brainstormed ways to get landscape restoration efforts to go to scale (with the help of wine, though she says she would have preferred tequila) she stood at a podium in front of the United Nations General Assembly as they adopted her proposed U.N. Decade on Ecosystem Restoration […]
