Wangari Maathai, the environmentalist, activist and winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize who died Sunday, told a story about the humble hummingbird. (Read her obituary) When a fire begins in a forest, ...

I am reminded of a story told by Professor Wangari Maathai of a hummingbird trying to save a burning forest with drops of water carried on its beak, as larger animal forests watched. Bewildered at the ...

The Complete Las Vegan urges all seeking completeness to take a moment and contemplate the life of Wangari Maathai, the first African woman Nobel Pace prize winner. She died last Sunday in Nairobi.

I heard the news report last week that Wangari Maathai had died of cancer. And I was flooded with sadness I had not known I would feel, for this Kenyan woman I have never met; this woman who changed ...

Lisa Merton and Alan Dater, the producers of Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai, attended the Nobel laureate and environmental activist’s funeral in Kenya in October. Merton offered ...

Trees, with their intrinsic beauty and power to restore the earth, were the dominating motif for Friday's lecture by Wangari Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate and founder of the Green Belt ...

On a recent Thursday, I received two lessons on the subject of global warming. One, in the Herbst Theater in San Francisco, filled me with a sense of pride and purpose as part of the human community; ...

Re-opened and glad of it, grateful Latchis offers free screening of 'Taking Root' BRATTLEBORO - Six weeks of hard work and fierce determination in the face of adversity paid off handsomely this past ...