• The Green Belt Movement (GBM) is an indigenous grassroots organization in Kenya that empowers women through the planting of trees. It is one of the most...
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    A green belt is a policy, and land-use zone designation used in land-use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding...
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    campaign to plant more than 30 million trees through her work at the Green Belt Movement. Mathai was born and raised in Kenya. Her mother, Wangari Maathai...
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    Wangarĩ Maathai (category Mazingira Green Party of Kenya politicians)
    Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist who founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting...
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  • Green belt or greenbelt is an area of protected open space around an urban area. Green belt may also refer to: Greenbelt (Golden Horseshoe), a protected...
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    The Metropolitan Green Belt is a statutory green belt around London, England. It comprises parts of Greater London, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex,...
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  • had been planted by participants in the Green Belt movement on public and private lands. The Green Belt movement aims to bring environmental restoration...
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    Scholarship Award | The Green Belt Movement". www.greenbeltmovement.org. Retrieved 2020-02-01. Hub, IISD's SDG Knowledge. "First-ever GCF Green Champion Awards...
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    The European Green Belt initiative is a grassroots movement for nature conservation and sustainable development along the corridor of the former Iron Curtain...
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  • Initiative Green Actors of West Africa Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) Green Cross International GreenFaith Greenpeace Green Belt Movement Group for...
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  • Billion Tree Campaign, instigated by Wangari Maathai, who founded the Green Belt Movement in Africa in 1977. As of 30 May 2021[update], 164 restoration projects...
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    forest. Conservationists, led by Wangari Maathai, the leader of Green Belt Movement who later became a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, carried out a much...
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  • Medal, an honour of Hong Kong Greater Britain Movement, a short-lived far-right group Green Belt Movement, a Kenyan environmental organisation This disambiguation...
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    environmentalist from St Lucia. Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, a Kenyan grassroots environmental organisation. She later won the...
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    Kenya, the Green Belt Movement has been a prominent ecofeminist movement since 1977, when it was founded by activist Wangari Maathai. This movement centers...
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    The term Bible Belt refers to a region of the Southern United States and the Midwestern state of Missouri (which also has significant Southern influence)...
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  • the poor is manifested in examples such as the Chipko movement in India, the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, and the opposition to the Agua Zarca Hydroelectrical...
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  • magazine, the Garrison Institute, Woodwell Climate Research Center, and Green Belt Movement U.S., dedicated to the work and legacy of Wangari Maathai. From 1979–2020...
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    Ecofeminism (category Green politics)
    Bahuguna and the Chipko Movement in India". New Hampshire Public Radio. Retrieved April 9, 2023. "Our History". The Green Belt Movement. Retrieved October...
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    Muta Maathai devoted her 2010 book Replenishing the Earth to the Green Belt Movement and the vital importance of trees in protecting the environment....
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    prominent and successful member of a Green party in Africa: after founding the Green Belt Movement and the Mazingira Green Party of Kenya, she was elected...
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  • Environment Prize winner Wangari Maathai from Kenya and founder of the Green Belt Movement, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. In addition to his work...
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    The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI or B&R), known in China as the One Belt One Road and sometimes referred to as the New Silk Road, is a global infrastructure...
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    "Hands off Uhuru Park – The green heart and Kenyan city jewel | The Green Belt Movement". www.greenbeltmovement.org. Retrieved 2020-05-28. December 08 2021...
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    Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, founded the Green Belt Movement which planted over 47 million trees to restore the Kenyan environment...
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    the San Joaquin Valley Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary Chico Mendes Green Belt Movement Agbogbloshie Cancer Alley China PX protests Grassy Narrows mercury...
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  • extraordinary work of these along with the work of organizations such as The Green Belt Movement, The Hunger Project, Dubai Cares, Dubai International Humanitarian...
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    For example, in Kenya, the Green Belt Movement mobilize the gradual violence of deforestation and soil erosion. The Movement was positioned at the crossroads...
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    source of motion, to transmit power efficiently or to track relative movement. Belts are looped over pulleys and may have a twist between the pulleys, and...
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  • Questions: Wangari Maathai". Time. Retrieved 19 March 2007. from the Green Belt Movement website- Wangari Maathai's "The Challenge of AIDS in Africa" Archived...
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