Photo of the Day: Nobel Winner Maathai with Dangermond and Tomlinson
At the ESRI Senior Executive Summit, Jack Dangermond, president of ESRI and Roger Tomlinson, summit host, introduced Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, keynote for the UC and special guest at the summit. Her comments were brief: "It (GIS) is a wonderful tool and it is a very encouraging tool. With climate change…we are very concerned with the protection of forests. We want to educate and motivate people to plant trees."
Maathia is a native of Kenya and the founder of the Green Belt Movement, which has helped thousand of women and their families to improve their lives through planting trees.
by Joe Francica on 06/17 at 08:19 PM |
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