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media type="custom" key="3954993" media type="custom" key="3954705" ** Making a Difference: ** media type="custom" key="3954669" ** media type="youtube" key="mVKxrgTDbs8" height="364" width="445" ** Inspiration: I emulate female environmentalists Rachel Carson and Wangari Maathai, as well as Jeff Lynne, the frontman of Electric Light Orchestra. Background:** Carson started her career as a biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller //The Sea Around Us// won her financial security and recognition as a gifted writer. Her next book, //The Edge of the Sea//, and the republished version of her first book, //Under the Sea Wind//, were also bestsellers. Together, her sea trilogy explores the whole of ocean life, from the shores to the surface to the deep sea. In the late 1950s, Carson turned her attention to conservation and the environmental problems caused by synthetic pesticides. The result was //Silent Spring// (1962), which brought environmental concerns to an unprecedented portion of the American public. //Silent Spring// spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy—leading to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides—and the grassroots environmental movement the book inspired led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. Carson was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter.
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In the 1970's, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. In 2004 she became the first African woman, and the first environmentalist, to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for “her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.” media type="custom" key="3954711" media type="custom" key="3954693" media type="youtube" key="dA0qGlnc-30" height="344" width="425" media type="youtube" key="zzikL5MJWCg" height="344" width="425" media type="custom" key="3954373"media type="custom" key="3957103"