Episode 063 - Wangari Muta Maathai | Environmentalist

<p>Alternate Title: A TREE-mendous Life</p> <p>Emma tells Emlyn about Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai, the environmentalist, activist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner who founded the grassroots tree-planting campaign, the Greenbelt Movement. </p> <p> </p> <p>Learn more about us and other women in science at our website <a href='http://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/'>www.stemfatalepodcast.com</a> </p> <p> </p> <p>Sources</p> <p>Main Story - Wangari Maathai </p> <ol><li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/'>The Green Belt Movement</a></li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Maathai, Wangari, Unbowed: a Memoir. William Heinemann, London, 2007.</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Wangari Maathai – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2020. Mon. 24 Aug 2020. </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Perlez, Jane. “Nairobi Journal; Skyscraper's Enemy Draws a Daily Dose of Scorn.” The New York Times. 1989. <a href='https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/06/world/nairobi-journal-skyscraper-s-enemy-draws-a-daily-dose-of-scorn.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm'>https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/06/world/nairobi-journal-skyscraper-s-enemy-draws-a-daily-dose-of-scorn.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm</a></li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Gettleman, Jeffrey. “Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dies at 71.” The New York Times. 2011. <a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/world/africa/wangari-maathai-nobel-peace-prize-laureate-dies-at-71.html'>https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/world/africa/wangari-maathai-nobel-peace-prize-laureate-dies-at-71.html</a></li> </ol><p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Women who Work </p> <ol><li style="font-weight:400;"> Press release by The Royal Society: <a href='https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/attenborough-prize/'>https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/attenborough-prize/</a></li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Wikipedia on Alice Roberts: <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Roberts'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Roberts</a><