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Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Doubleday image, 2010 professor maathai argues that the key to selfempowerment and conservation lies in traditional spiritual values. Nobel peace prize laureate maathai, founder of the. Wangari muta maathais ecological rhetorics and literacies eileen e. An impassioned call to heal the wounds of our planet and ourselves through the tenets of our spiritual traditions, from a winner of the nobel peace prize it is so easy, in our modern world, to feel disconnected from the physical earth. Sharing the approach and the experience, lantern books, 2003. Wangari maathai, in full wangari muta maathai, born april 1, 1940, nyeri, kenyadied september 25, 2011, nairobi, kenyan politician and environmental activist who was awarded the 2004 nobel prize for peace, becoming the first black african woman to win a nobel prize. An impassioned call to heal the wounds of our planet and ourselves through the tenets of our spiritual traditions, from a winner of the nobel peace prize.
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