Wangari Maathai will always be one of my heroes. The news of her passing fills me with despair. She was the first, perhaps the only, environmentalist to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She embodied the spirit of hope as she carried out her mission to replant deforested lands not only in her native Kenya, but [...]

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