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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Slow Food working to help Kenya It's not always just Monsanto screwing with the food system	Kurt Michael Friese	18 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, food, Kenya (all these topics)

Long-distance organic Is it really a savior for smallholder farmers in the global south?	Tom Philpott	17 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, food, green living, Kenya, local food, organic food (all these topics)

Killing wildlife to save it? Controversy in Kenya	Jason D Scorse	19 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: biodiversity, endangered species, Kenya (all these topics)

Eat local foods, import biofuels A message from Kenya and Biopact	Ron Steenblik	23 Feb 2007	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, energy, food, Kenya, local food (all these topics)

Herd It Through the Decline Climate change ravages land and livelihoods of Kenya's nomadic herders		14 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Herd It Through the Decline Climate change ravages land and livelihoods of Kenya's nomadic herders As climate talks continue in Nairobi, Kenya, the world's climate-change canaries aren't far away. Severe floods in the country's northern and coastal regions have killed more than 20 people and forced 60,000 to relocate over the last few weeks, and a flood-drought cycle is disrupting a traditional way of life for 3 mill ...
Topics: climate, desertification, Kenya, news (all these topics)

A New Leaf Billion-tree effort launches as new climate reports issued		09 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
A New Leaf Billion-tree effort launches as new climate reports issued Ooh, we love reports. A new one from a team of European scientists says the Arctic and Antarctic are linked by powerful currents, creating a "climate seesaw" that connects the fates of the poles and could help scientists predict the effects of polar warming on climate. A second, U.N.-commissioned re ...
Topics: Antarctica, Arctic, climate, Kenya, land stewardship, news, United Nations (all these topics)

Under the Macroscope Protests, international conference focus on U.S. climate stubbornness		06 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Under the Macroscope Protests, international conference focus on U.S. climate stubbornness How many delegates does it take to convince the U.S. to address climate change? No one knows, but the 5,000 gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, for the latest U.N. climate conference are giving it a shot. The two-week event opened today with remarks from Kenyan Vice President Moody Awori: "We are all gathered this morning on behalf ...
Topics: climate, Kenya, news, United States (all these topics)

Home Is Best A review of Wangari Maathai's autobiography Unbowed	Shalini Ramanathan	30 Oct 2006	Arts and Minds
October 2004 was an exciting time to be a tree-hugger in Wangari Maathai's home country of Kenya. When she was announced as winner of that year's Nobel Peace Prize, many of my environmentally inclined friends and colleagues were eager to help her figure out what to do with the giant megaphone she had just been handed. Earnest volunteers with ideas and expectations streamed in and out of the downt ...
Topics: Kenya, land stewardship (all these topics)

Maathai on the Prize An interview with Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai	Amanda Griscom Little	15 Feb 2005	Main Dish
If the leaders of America's environmental movement need a shot of adrenaline, they would do well to sit down with Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Maathai is the now-legendary mother of the Green Belt Movement, responsible for mobilizing tens of thousands of women to plant a staggering 30 million trees across Kenya over the last three decades. Her grassroots ...
Topics: heroes, interview, Kenya (all these topics)

Nobel of the Ball Kenyan eco-activist Wangari Maathai wins Nobel Peace Prize	Geoffrey Dabelko	08 Oct 2004	Main Dish
Wangari Maathai with good reason to smile. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. It is a small room for such a momentous decision. And it's made even smaller by the impressive portraits of past winners lining the walls, listening in on the secret deliberations of the Nobel Peace Prize committee. Amidst the daily drumbeat of war stories, the committee hatched a wonderful surprise in tha ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Kenya (all these topics)

My Pet Goat Masai tribes eye white settler land in Kenya		23 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
My Pet Goat Masai tribes eye white settler land in Kenya The Masai tribespeople of Kenya are running out of land for their herds of goats, cows, and sheep, and they are starting to covet the vast swaths controlled by the country's white settlers -- land that contains copious wildlife, including endangered species like the black rhino. The conflict is touchy. Many of the whites are sympathetic to the Masai, whose land was stolen a ...
Topics: Kenya, travel, wildlife (all these topics)

Methyl to Their Madness U.S. Loses Bid for Increased Use of Ozone-Depleting Pesticide		17 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Methyl to Their Madness U.S. Loses Bid for Increased Use of Ozone-Depleting Pesticide A U.S. request for permission to up use of an ozone-depleting fungicide was snubbed last week by representatives from the European Union and developing nations at an international meeting on ozone-layer protection in Nairobi, Kenya. The Montreal Protocol, a 1989 treaty that aims to halt destruction of the o ...
Topics: Africa, climate, European Union, Kenya, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Afri-can Do		18 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Afri-can Do Seeking to capitalize on the potential of renewable energy sources, 10 African nations are collaborating to increase their combined geothermal power generation to 1,000 megawatts by 2020. Geothermal power yields electricity by trapping steam released by water reservoi ...
Topics: Africa, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, green living, international government agencies, Kenya, Malawi, renewable energy, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, United Nations, Zambia (all these topics)

99 and 44/100 Percent Confusing		04 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
99 and 44/100 Percent Confusing Five southern African nations are requesting permission to resume ivory trading at an international conference that begins today in Santiago, Chile. They are asking the 160 countries that have signed the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species to allow them to clear out stockpiles -- mainly from elephants that died naturally -- and to sell 14 tons mor ...
Topics: Africa, business, India, Kenya, South Africa, wildlife (all these topics)

Who, Moi?		01 May 2002	Daily Grist
Who, Moi? Responding to criticism that his government has overseen the widespread destruction of forests, Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi announced yesterday a plan to strictly enforce bans on timber cutting. Moi also announced that he would seek support from the U.N. Development Programme for a campaign to plant trees. Sounds good, but Moi has not historically been a friend to environmentalists, who have acc ...
Topics: Kenya, land stewardship, logging, wilderness (all these topics)

Kenya Believe It?		20 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Kenya Believe It? If Kenya gets its way, water distribution in east Africa could change dramatically: The nation's energy minister, Raila Odinga, has called for a review of the 1929 British colonial treaty that grants Egypt the right to veto projects involving use of the headwaters of the Nile. Od ...
Topics: Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, globalization, international government agencies, Kenya, Middle East, Nile River, rivers and watersheds, Sudan, water conflicts (all these topics)

Kenya Opener		08 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Kenya Opener Even though Kenya is a major food exporter, it hasn't reaped much benefit from the $20 billion-per-year global market in organic foods. Now some farmers and nonprofits in the African nation are trying to change that. Many Kenyans already grow their crops without chemical inputs, but up till now, not a single one has been certified as an organic ...
Topics: Africa, commercial and industry organizations, food and agriculture, globalization, GMOs, Kenya (all these topics)

I Believe in a Town Called 'Without Hope'		18 Jan 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Africa, business, globalization, green living, Kenya, recycling (all these topics)

Better, Safe Safari		19 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Better, Safe Safari "The future of Kenyan tourism is green," says Judy Gona, executive director of the Ecotourism Society of Kenya, which is working to create a low-impact, more environmentally friendly tourism industry in the second-most visited country in Africa. ESOK's 80 members are mostly small, secluded camps and lodges that are built with local materials. They use alternative energ ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Kenya, travel (all these topics)

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