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KENYA’S WANGARI MAATHAI – BUCKET BRIGADE IN EUROPEAN COMMISSION CIRCLES – DPC – ESG AND GOVT – ESG AND LECTURES –

To begin with, on International Women’s day, we thought it entirely appropriate to remind listeners of the extraordinary achievements of the late and remarkable woman from Kenya, called Wangari Maathai. Wangari was an activist whose Green Belt movement enabled poor women to plant 30 million trees. In 2004 she was handed the Nobel Peace prize, the first African woman to be so acclaimed for her efforts to combat deforestation and promote women’s rights. A truly incredible role model.

On another matter the ESG was pleasantly surprised to read in an official European Commission Environmental journal, how environmental citizens movements can be extremely helpful in supporting official data gathering to clean up pollution and the environment. They cited the Bucket Brigade as an example. Well many will be aware that we set up a cross border Bucket Brigade movement in 2004 and collected air samples of Refinery pollution which we presented to the European Commission at the time, in 2005.

We are now contacting the article’s author to advise him that the bucket technology and citizen campaign is alive and kicking in Europe too. We shall also let Denny Larson know who, we are sure, will be pleased to hear his work is recognised in an official capacity. We shall post more information on this story on our website shortly including a reaction from Denny Larson himself!

Moving on, we would like to remind listeners that the next DPC meeting will take place on Tuesday 27th March at 9.30am at Charles Hunt Room. Remember to check out the agenda on the Government website in case there is any issue of interest to you.

We are busy meeting with the new Government and sharing our concerns and information and are hopeful that we shall see some major environmental changes in the not too distant future.

The ESG has also delivered a series of lectures to schools, Gibraltar college and associations and invite anyone listening who would like to have an environmental talk by our group to please contact us at 200-48996, or 54960000. Also email esg@gibtelecom.net with any enquiries.
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