{"id":24200,"date":"2011-01-26T04:44:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T04:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/csm-a_nobel_peace_prize_winner_finds_spiritual_values_in_planting_trees\/"},"modified":"2011-01-26T04:44:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T04:44:41","slug":"csm-a_nobel_peace_prize_winner_finds_spiritual_values_in_planting_trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24200","title":{"rendered":"CSM&#8211;A Nobel Peace Prize winner finds spiritual values in planting trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004 [Wangari] Maathai was honored with a Nobel Peace Prize for her work founding the Green Belt Movement, which enlists villagers, and especially women, to improve their local environment.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, she&#8217;s concluded that people&#8217;s values are what motivate them. If the values are good ones, good actions will follow. Hence it&#8217;s importance for people to tap their spiritual traditions for guidance in caring for the environment, she says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw that if people have [good] values, they can sustain what they are doing,&#8221; says Maathai in a recent interview at a New York City hotel not far from the United Nations, where she&#8217;s addressed the General Assembly in the past.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/making-a-difference\/2011\/0124\/A-Nobel-Peace-Prize-winner-finds-spiritual-values-in-planting-trees\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004 [Wangari] Maathai was honored with a Nobel Peace Prize for her work founding the Green Belt Movement, which enlists villagers, and especially women, to improve their local environment. Since then, she&#8217;s concluded that people&#8217;s values are what motivate<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24200\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,140,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-energy-natural-resources","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}