An Evening with Wangari Maathai in NYC, Sept. 25
by Jasmin Malik Chua, Jersey City, USA on 09.20.07
Wednesday, September 25, 7pm
An Evening with Wangari Maathai
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street NY, NY 10024
LeFrak Theater, first floor
Program Code: EL092507
$15 ($13.50 Members, students, senior citizens)
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai is a celebrated political activist, feminist, and environmentalist. She is the founder of the Green Belt Movement, an environmental group in Kenya that has restored indigenous forests and assisted rural women by paying them to plant trees in their communities. Since 1977, it has planted more than 30 million trees in Kenya and been replicated in dozens of other African countries. Maathai is currently Kenya's Deputy Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources and a Member of Parliament.
Her new memoir, Unbowed , will be available for signing.
You can purchase tickets online or by calling 212-769-5200.
[via Ben Jervey]
Wangari Maathai is also one of the patrons of the United Nations Environmental Programme's (UNEP) Billion Tree Campaign. This is an exceptional worldwide effort to plant trees and its objective is to plant at least one billion trees worldwide during 2007.
So far, the campaign received pledges to plant over 1.1 billion trees and 221.4 million trees have already been planted. you can look for more information on the campaign on it's website: http://www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign/
raz @ eco-libris
That picture is in my Environmental Science book.
Andrew
P.S. I started Environmental Management this year.