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She was my hero.

^^ Same!!

Here's a link to purchase Maathai's books via her organization's website, so some of the proceeds benefit the Green Belt Movement.

I read & reviewed Unbowed (review), Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World (review), and The Challenge for Africa (review) all in a row a few years ago.

For this reading project--though certainly not on the June timeframe!-- I'm going to read her fourth book, The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience, which is supposed to be more of a how-to guide for running a women-run tree nursery social movement.

If you don't have time to make it through a book on Maathai's life or philosophy, you can read about her work & legacy on the Green Belt Movement website, and read some short speeches there, including her Nobel Prize acceptance speech.