Maathai was born to a farm family in Kenya. Probably most famous as a 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, she has held many highly respected positions and achieved many notable accomplishments throughout her life. Regarded as a found of the Greenbelt Movement, she has led a persistent struggle for democracy through the idea of developing and maintaining a sustainable environment. Through her hard work, over one billion trees have been planted around the world today. She believes in “thinking globally and acting locally.” One of her main messages for us was to seriously think about reducing, reusing, recycling and (probably not thought about enough by most of us, including myself) being thankful for what we have.
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