Replenishing the Earth by Wangari Maathai

Replenishing the Earth by Wangari Maathai

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. Despite dire warnings and escalating concern over the state of our planet, many people feel out of touch with the natural world. Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai has spent decades working with the Green Belt Movement to help women in rural Kenya plant-and sustain-millions of trees. With their hands in the dirt, these women often find themselves empowered and "at home" in a way they never did before. Maathai wants to impart that feeling to everyone, and believes that the key lies in traditional spiritual values- love for the environment, self-betterment, gratitude and respect, and a commitment to service. While educated in the Christian tradition, Maathai draws inspiration from many faiths, celebrating the Jewish mandate tikkun olam ("repair the world") and renewing the Japanese term mottainai ("don't waste"). Through rededication to these values, she believes, we might finally bring about healing for ourselves and the earth.

Wangari Muta Maathai was born in the Kenyan town of Nyeri in the year 1940. She is the originator of the Green Belt Movement, which has planted over 30 million trees across Kenya through rural women's networks since 1977. In the first free elections in a decade, she was elected to Kenya's Parliament in 2002, and in 2003, she was appointed Deputy Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources. She is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient from 2004 and lives and works in Nairobi with her three grown children.

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ISBN 13	9780307591142
ISBN 10	030759114X
Title	Replenishing the Earth
Author	Wangari Maathai
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Three Rivers Press
Year published	2010-09-14
Number of pages	208
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