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Who said, “Man is simply a steward holding whatever is on earth in trust.”
Nana Firman
What is Nana Firman’s noteable contributions
Global Muslim Climate Network
Who said, “Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people are in a position to understand what is being lost. The future of the planet concerns all of us, and all of us should do what we can to protect it.”
Wangari Maathai
What are Wangari Maathai’s noteable contributions
Nobel Laureate
Founder of the Green Belt Movement
Who said, “An individual alone cannot possibly make a difference, alone. It is the individual efforts, collectively, that make a noticeable difference – all the difference in the world.”
Dr. Jane Goodall
What is Dr. Jane Goodall’s contribution
Primatologist
Who said, “It’s time to be clear about the misconception that environmental issues are incompatible with civil rights issues.”
Lisa Jackson
What are Lisa Jackson’s contributions to environmentalism
Administrator of the EPA (2009-2013)
Apple’s VIE President of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives
Who said, “Everyday, I complain, protest, and object, but it takes such vigilance and activism to keep legislators on their toes and government accountable to the people on environmental issues.”
Hazel Johnson
What is Hazel Johnson’s notable contribution
Protest Leader in the shut down of permitting landfills near communities of color
Who said, “We need to be smart - try new ideas, and be unafraid to fail.”
Ibrahim Abdul-Matin
What is Ibrahim Abdul-Matin’s contributions
Director of community affiars
NYC department of environmental protection
Author of Green Deen
Who said, “In nature, nothing exists alone.”
Rachel Carson
What are Rachel Carson’s contributions
Marine Biologist
Author of Silent Spring
Who said, “Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.”
William Ruckleshaus
What is William Ruckleshaus’s contributions
First administrator of the EPA
Who said, “Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.”
Dr. Vandana Shiva
What are Dr. Vandana Shiva’s Contributions
Environmental Activist
Board member of the International Forum on Globalization
Author
Who said, “Being seen as a human being means that we create legislative policy that does not take food out of the mouths of children.”
Tanya Fields
What are Tanya Fields’s contributions to environmentalism
Food justice advocate
Executive director of the black feminist project
Who said, “There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it’s not really there.”
Bill Mckibbon
What are Bill Mckibbon’s contributions to environmentalism
Environmentalist
AUthor
Ghandi peace awardee 2013
Who said, “We are the environment and how we treat each other is really how we treat the environment.”
John Francis
What are John Francis’s contributions to enviornmentalism
Environmentalist
Planet walker
Who said, “We are all connected: to each other, biologically; to the earth, chemically; to the rest of the universe, atomically.”
Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson
What are neil degrass tyson’s contributions
Astrophysicist
Stephen Hawking Medal for Scientific communication
Who said, “When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find attached to it the rest of the world.”
John Muir
What are John Muir’s contributions
Naturalist
Co-founder of the Sierra Club
Father of the National Parks
Who said, “Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, we fell them down and turn them into paper, that we may record our emptiness.”
Kahul Gibran
What are Kahul Gibran’s contributions
Poet
Author
Spirit of Humanity award from the Arab-America Institute
Who said, “The environmental justice movement has been about people taking control of their own communities. Those most impacted by a problem are also the ones leading the hunt for a solution.”
Omar Freilla
What are Omar Friella’s contributions
MSEH
Founder of the Green Worker Cooprerative