Kenya Blog

May 9, 2005

I've written a blog of my time in Kenya working on some writing projects with Wangari Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Visit the Lantern Books Forum to read it.

Introducing Wangari Maathai at Cooper Union

March 8, 2005

I had the pleasure and privilege of introducing Professor Wangari Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, to a packed crowd in the historic Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City. Professor Maathai, whose book The Green Belt Movement I publish, was in town to attend the U.N. Conference on Women's 10 anniversary, also known as Beijing + 10. In attendance were many members of grassroots women's, social justice, and environmental movements, as well as ex-patriate Kenyans and others. Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, and founder of Speak Truth to Power, was also in attendance and gave a speech on human rights and environmental conservation. For more on this incredible evening, please visit the Green Belt Movement North America website.

Letter in the New York Times

February 13, 2005

Mia and I recently got a letter in the New York Times following an editorial that examined a new report from Human Rights Watch that criticized the meat industry in the United States for humam rights abuses.

Op-Ed in the International Herald Tribune

November 19, 2003

Tom Regan, emeritus professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University and author of the ground-breaking The Case for Animal Rights and I have had an Op-Ed published in the International Herald Tribune.

Green Business Conference

November 1, 2003

I attended, on behalf of Lantern Books, the Green Business Conference in San Francisco California, where I learned about all of the exciting things that are going on in rethinking how business is conducted around the world.

I then attended the Green Festival, sponsored by Co-Op America and Global Exchange, which was attended by 20,000 people.

The Culture and Animals Foundation Conference

October 6, 2003

Martin Rowe attended the Culture and Animals Foundation Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. Speakers included Lantern Books' authors Kim Stallwood, President of the Institute for Animals and Society and J. R. Hyland, coordinator of Humane Religion. At the conference, "Peaceable Kingdom," the second documentary film in the Animal People trilogy, was premiered. For more information on this extraordinary work, visit Tribe of Heart.