So far am loving this book. Wangari has a way of talking about big problems in a simple and powerful way. Wangari says she was motivated to do this work out of a "desire to help rural populations, especially women, with the basic needs they described to me during seminars and workshops. They said they lacked clean drinking water, adequate and nutritious food, income, and enough energy for cooking and eating." So she started planting trees.
What she also found was that "individuals had to rediscover their authentic voice and speak out on behalf of their human rights."
She talks about how she came to be an activist, how the ideas for action came from The Source. I love how activism on behalf of the environment and healing the earth is intertwined with healing our inner spirit. When she visits a timber company operation in the Congo, she refers to the experience as the "wound". And we are all wounded by our craving for more and overconsumption.
What do you think?
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Welcome to our first book!!
Hi friends-- Happy June. Our first book in the AWE book club is Wangari Maathai's Replenishing the Earth. My copy is on it's way so get yours now and blog your comments and questions.
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