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A thousand pines : a look inside the hidden world of tree planting / by Osband, NoamFilm directorFilm producerCinematographerdirectorproducer(DLC)no2015038203; Díaz, Sebastián,(Filmmaker)Film directorFilm producerdirectorproducer(local)tlcaut1718288706342709904; Collective Eye Films,Publisher(DLC)no2017114835;
A Thousand Pines shows the lives of migrants who depend on the controversial guest worker visa program, following a crew of workers from Oaxaca, Mexico over the course of a season planting trees throughout the United States. The crew struggles to balance the job's physical demands and its extreme isolation while remaining connected to their families back home. As the season progresses, they become a small family, cooking and caring for each other in order to endure the punishing work. The film centers on the crew foreman, Raymundo Morales, who is in his 19th season working for the largest reforestation company in the US. When he began, he was single and had few responsibilities. Now, however, he must balance his obligations to his wife, his children, and his elderly mother with a heart condition, while also tending to the needs and emergencies of the planting crew. Spending only three months at home during the off-season, Raymundo's job is both the family's salvation and its heartbreak.Closed captions.DVD.
Subjects: Feature films; Nonfiction films; Documentary films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired; Agricultural laborers, Foreign; Mexicans; Tree planters (Persons); Tree planting;
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Trees for tomorrow / by Lockyear, Frank,1913-2001.(CARDINAL)378017; Gray, Robert,1922-2002.(CARDINAL)712852;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Lockyear, Frank, 1913-2001.; ReTree International.; Nursery growers; Tree planters (Persons); Tree planting.; Trees.;
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Mama Miti : Wangari Maathai and the trees of Kenya / by Napoli, Donna Jo,1948-(CARDINAL)351376; Nelson, Kadir,illustrator.(CARDINAL)344155;
The story of Wangari Maathai, who in 1977 founded the Green Belt Movement, an African grassroots organization, and in 2004 was the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.AD610LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Maathai, Wangari; Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya); Tree planters (Persons); Tree planters (Persons); Women conservationists; Women conservationists; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 25 / Total copies: 28
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Unbowed : a memoir / by Maathai, Wangari.(CARDINAL)344543;
The recipient of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize describes her life as a feminist, political activist, and environmentalist in Kenya, detailing the 1977 establishment of the Green Belt Movement and her role in the transformation of Kenya's government.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Maathai, Wangari.; Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya); Tree planters (Persons); Women conservationists; Women politicians;
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Unbowed : a memoir / by Maathai, Wangari.(CARDINAL)344543;
Beginnings -- Cultivation -- Education and the state of emergency -- American dream -- Independence-Kenya's and my own -- Foresters without diplomas -- Difficult years -- Seeds of change -- Fighting for freedom -- Freedom for Freedom -- Freedom turns a corner -- Aluta continua: the struggle continues -- Opening the gates of politics -- Rise up and walk.Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a single mother of three, recounts her life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya. Born in a rural village in 1940, she was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most girls were uneducated. We see her become the first woman both in East and Central Africa to earn a PhD and to head a university department in Kenya. We witness her numerous run-ins with the brutal Moi government; the establishment, in 1977, of the Green Belt Movement, which spread from Kenya across Africa and which helps restore indigenous forests while assisting rural women by paying them to plant trees in their villages; and how her courage and determination helped transform Kenya's government into the democracy in which she now serves.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Maathai, Wangari.; Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya); Tree planters (Persons); Women conservationists; Women politicians;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 16
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Wangari Muta Maathai / by Fankhouser, Kris,author.(CARDINAL)817473;
Growing up in Kenya -- "Liberated from fear and from silence" -- Warrior for the environment -- The politician.Discover how Wangari Muta Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, an organization devoted to environmental conservation and community development in Kenya, and became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.1100L
Subjects: Biographies.; Maathai, Wangari; Tree planters (Persons); Environmentalists; Women conservationists; Women politicians;
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Restoration with Wangari Maathai / by McQuerry, Maureen,1955-author.; Rosenthal, Robin(Illustrator),illustrator.;
Wangari Maathai worked to heal and revive damaged land by planting new trees. Discover her big ideas about restoring nature and ways you can help too!AD630L
Subjects: Biographies.; Maathai, Wangari; Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya); Environmentalists; Tree planters (Persons); Women conservationists;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Wangari's trees of peace / by Winter, Jeanette.(CARDINAL)344544;
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Subjects: Biographies.; Maathai, Wangari; Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya); Tree planters (Persons); Women conservationists; Women politicians;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Planting the trees of Kenya : the story of Wangari Maathai / by Nivola, Claire A.(CARDINAL)378928;
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Subjects: Biographies.; Maathai, Wangari; Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya); Tree planters (Persons); Women conservationists; Women politicians;
Available copies: 24 / Total copies: 26
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Wangari's trees of peace : a true story from Africa / by Winter, Jeanette.(CARDINAL)344544;
Booklist, December 2008Bulletin (Center for Children's books), October 2008Horn Book, April 2009Library Media Connection, January 2009New York Times, September 2008Pub Weekly, August 2008School Library Journal starred, November 2008Tells the story of Wangari Maathai, a Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist who, shocked to see entire forests being cut down in her native country of Kenya, decides to take action, beginning with the planting of nine seedlings in her own backyard.3.5K-3AD600LAccelerated Reader ARAccelerated Reader ARNotable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2009.Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12, 2009.
Subjects: Biographies.; Maathai, Wangari; Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya); Tree planters (Persons); Women conservationists; Women politicians;
Available copies: 37 / Total copies: 44
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