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Who said, “Man is simply a steward holding whatever is on earth in trust.”

Nana Firman

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What is Nana Firman’s noteable contributions

Global Muslim Climate Network

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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

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What are Wangari Maathai’s noteable contributions

Nobel Laureate

Founder of the Green Belt Movement

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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

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What is Dr. Jane Goodall’s contribution

Primatologist

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Who said, “It’s time to be clear about the misconception that environmental issues are incompatible with civil rights issues.”

Lisa Jackson

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What are Lisa Jackson’s contributions to environmentalism

Administrator of the EPA (2009-2013)

Apple’s VIE President of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives

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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

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What is Hazel Johnson’s notable contribution

Protest Leader in the shut down of permitting landfills near communities of color

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Who said, “We need to be smart - try new ideas, and be unafraid to fail.”

Ibrahim Abdul-Matin

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What is Ibrahim Abdul-Matin’s contributions

Director of community affiars

NYC department of environmental protection

Author of Green Deen

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Who said, “In nature, nothing exists alone.”

Rachel Carson

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What are Rachel Carson’s contributions

Marine Biologist

Author of Silent Spring

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Who said, “Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.”

William Ruckleshaus

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What is William Ruckleshaus’s contributions

First administrator of the EPA

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Who said, “Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.”

Dr. Vandana Shiva

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What are Dr. Vandana Shiva’s Contributions

Environmental Activist

Board member of the International Forum on Globalization

Author

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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

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What are Tanya Fields’s contributions to environmentalism

Food justice advocate

Executive director of the black feminist project

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Who said, “There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it’s not really there.”

Bill Mckibbon

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What are Bill Mckibbon’s contributions to environmentalism

Environmentalist

AUthor

Ghandi peace awardee 2013

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Who said, “We are the environment and how we treat each other is really how we treat the environment.”

John Francis

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What are John Francis’s contributions to enviornmentalism

Environmentalist

Planet walker

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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

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What are neil degrass tyson’s contributions

Astrophysicist

Stephen Hawking Medal for Scientific communication

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Who said, “When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find attached to it the rest of the world.”

John Muir

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What are John Muir’s contributions

Naturalist

Co-founder of the Sierra Club

Father of the National Parks

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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

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What are Kahul Gibran’s contributions

Poet

Author

Spirit of Humanity award from the Arab-America Institute

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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

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What are Omar Friella’s contributions

MSEH

Founder of the Green Worker Cooprerative