The power of local action

By Jack Pringle Jack Pringle 2007-02-22T00:00:00

From left: Maggie Baxter, Richard Steer, Wangari Maathai, David Adjaye, Jack Pringle; the RIBA’S new Yorkshire office at Green Sands Foundry.

Source: Photo courtesy of Gleeds

Last month the RIBA Trust’s Climate Change lecture programme International Dialogues, sponsored by Gleeds, was launched by Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai’s moving lecture on her green belt movement in Kenya.

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