This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai who has become the first African woman and first environmentalist to ever win the award. In awarding the prize, the Nobel Peace Prize said today QUOTE “Peace on earth depends on our ability to secure our living environment.” In 1977 Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement which has overseen the planting of more than 30 million trees in Africa. Maathai currently serves as Kenya’s Assistant Minister for the Environment. We’ll have more on this later in the show.