GBM Blog

A presentation at the climate change talks in Durban by GBM focused on our efforts to rehabilitate the Aberdares and Mt. Kenya water towers in Kenya. Senior project officer, Mercy Karunditu, highlighted the great importance of mobilizing community consciousness and action towards community-led adaptation and mitigation activities.

On Friday, the Green Belt Movement (GBM), KenyaFEB28 and Kenya Forest Service (KFS) launched the “I am the Hummingbird” campaign with tree planting events across Kenya.

I had the enormous privilege -- and sheer good luck -- to be with Prof. Maathai on an October morning in Kenya nearly seven years ago when she got the news she'd become the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate. On this day of great sorrow, I thought I'd share my account of that wonderful, happy, historic day, which was published in the Los Angeles Times.

On a dusty, dry patch of land in south-east Kenya a lone Maasai man admires thriving fruit and vegetables on a plot of land. Mangoes, papayas and spinach flourish under the searing heat of the African sun. It is a rare sight here in Ng'atataek on the Tanzanian border, an arid region where rainfall is scarce and the little water available is usually reserved for the livestock.