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1892

Main Accomplishment: Born in 1857 in Oakland, California, Kate moved south to San Diego in 1884. She started a plant nursery a year later and in 1892 contracted with the city to plant 100 trees a year for 10 years, in exchange for a nursery area in the northwest corner of what is now Balboa Park. A successful and tireless business owner, over her lifetime Kate operated nurseries in Coronado, Pacific Beach, Mission Hills, and other locations in greater San Diego. She is said to have introduced the jacaranda, Poinsett

orchid tree, bougainvillea, bird of paradise, and many other exotic plants now common in local gardens and streets. She also inspired local schoolchildren to help plant trees, but planting alone was not enough—the new young plants had to be carefully nurtured to survive

Point 1: Kate Sessions, who had a strong interest in plants even as a child, is best known as the “Mother of Balboa Park” but it might be more accurate to designate her as the female “Johnny Appleseed” of San Diego. ... She was instrumental in the planning and planting of Palm Canyon and the Aloe and Agave Garden

Point 2: Kate Sessions brought several rare and endangered species to our area that have managed to survive, such as rare palms from Baja California. These palms she acquired by digging up a few plants herself on a trip to Cabo San Lucas in 1902. She was also responsible for the planting of the enormously tall Guadalupe cypress tree in Balboa Park near the Horseshoe Club. This very rare species is endemic to Guadalupe Island, Mexico, and has been threatened in the past by the voracious browsing of feral goats on the island.

Point 3:  She published articles in newspapers and in California Garden, the publication of the San Diego Floral Association, which Miss Sessions helped to found in 1906. Appointed supervisor of agriculture and landscaper for the city schools in 1915, she taught horticulture and botany to the schoolchildren and supervised their school gardens traveling from one school to another during the year.

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1960

Main  Accompishment: Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE was born to Herbert Morris-Goodall and Margaret Myfanwy Joseph on April 3, 1934, in London. She is a multidisciplinary environmental scientist and is better known as a primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist. She is a UN Messenger of Peace. She is the world’s number one specialist on chimpanzees and is best known for her forty-five years of study of the wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park of Tanzania. She is the founder of the world-famous Jane Goodall Institute

Point 1:  Jane Goodall is the world's foremost expert in chimpanzees

Point 2: Jane was Recognized for her groundbreaking discoveries about the chimpanzee’s behavior – she discovered that chimpanzees make tools, eat and hunt for meat, and have similar social behavior to humans – she completely transformed our understanding of our closest relative in the animal kingdom.

Point 3:  Jane Goodall is considered a hero because she cares a lot about wildlife even when she was a little girl.

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1962

Major Accomplishment: In 1962, Biologist Rachel Carson alerted the world to the environmental impact of fertilizers and pesticides. Her best-known book, Silent Spring, led to a presidential

Point 1: Rachel Carson catalyzed the global environmental movement with her 1962 book Silent Spring.

Point 2: Her book, Silent Spring (1962), became one of the most influential books in the modern environmental movement and provided the impetus for tighter control of pesticides, including DDT

Point 3: She challenged the use of man-made chemicals, and her research led to the nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides.

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1968

Major Accomplishment: Sylvia is an oceanographer, scuba diver, and research scientist. She founded Mission Blue, an organization dedicated to protecting the ocean from threats such as climate change, pollution, habitat destruction, invasive species, and the dramatic decrease in ocean fish stocks.

Point 1. She also became interested in submersibles (one-person modern submarines) that are specially designed for deep-sea exploration. Earle made history in 1968, as she was the first woman to pilot and 'lock out' (enter and leave the chamber) in a submersible – all while she was four months pregnant with her third child!

Point 2: She was among the first underwater explorers to make use of modern self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA) gear, and identified many new species of marine life.

Point 3: During one dive, she discovered a new bright pink plant they had never seen. Since Earle was the first to discover it, she got to name it. She named this new plant Humbrella after her mentor and teacher, Dr. Harold Humm

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1977

Major Accomplishment: Founded in 1977 by Professor Wangari Maathai, the Green Belt Movement (GBM) has planted over 51 million trees in Kenya.

Point 1: While working with the National Council of Women of Kenya, Maathai developed the idea that village women could improve the environment by planting trees to provide a fuel source and to slow the processes of deforestation and desertification.

Point 2:  She was the first female professor ever in her home country of Kenya

Point 3: Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She was also the first female scholar from East and Central Africa to take a doctorate (in biology), and the first female professor ever in her home country of Kenya

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1997

Major Accomplishment: Julia Butterfly Hill, byname of Julia Lorraine Hill, (born February 18, 1974, Mount Vernon, Missouri, U.S.), American activist known for having lived in a tree for 738 days in an act of civil disobedience to prevent clear-cutting of ecologically significant forests.

Point 1:  She is best known for having lived in a 180-foot (55 m)-tall, roughly 1500-year-old California redwood tree for 738 days between December 10, 1997 and December 18, 1999. Hill lived in the tree, affectionately known as Luna, to prevent Pacific Lumber Company loggers from cutting it down

Point 2: She is the author of the 2000 book The Legacy of Luna and co-author of One Makes the Difference. The book is based on true events and written like a diary of the two years Julia Butterfly Hill spent squatting in an ancient redwood in order to protect it. The tree had been named Luna by activists

Point 3: Luna is an ancient redwood. She has been living in Humboldt County of northern California for more than 1000 years, towers 200 feet above the earth and has a circumference of 40 feet. ... Julia stayed aloft until Pacific Lumber Company agreed to protect Luna with a conservation easement.

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1998

Major Accomplishment: Isatou Ceesay was named Queen of Recycling when she started the recycling movement in Gambia called: One Plastic Bag. Her recycling project began in 1998 and is still thriving today. In 2012, she was awarded a TIAW “Difference Maker” award in Washington, DC

Point 1: Isatou’s sister had taught her how to crochet, and this gave her an idea for how to upcycle the plastic bags that were causing so many problems – changing them from waste into something valuable. She would turn them into purses that could be sold to make money. Isatou persuaded five friends to join her to form a new women’s group, and together they collected bags from the rubbish pile, washed them and dried them out. Then, that first afternoon beneath the tree, they carefully cut each bag into a long continuous thread of plastic several centimetres wide – called ‘plarn’, or plastic yarn. With this, they started to crochet small purses for coins, using different coloured plarn to add pretty patterns. It took eight hours or more to make one purse and it used up around 10 plastic bags. The women were delighted with what they had made.

Point 2: The women continued with their tiny business, now also making shoulder bags and cosmetic purses from plarn. Many of them were earning money for the first time, and they were able to use it to buy food to help their families through the ‘hungry gap’ – the three months in the year when there were few crops from their farmland. Their husbands noticed how their family’s lives were improving and encouraged their wives in their purse-making. The women no longer worked in secret, and soon others joined them. Within a year, Isatou’s community recycling project had grown to 50 women and she named it the N’jau Recycling and Income Generation Group (NRIGG).

Point 3: Women in N’jau were now able to save some money, and Isatou helped them to open their own bank accounts. With their savings, many of the women could afford to support their families in ways that would have been impossible before. Their daughters could continue into secondary school and they could pay for medical treatment when they needed it. The women helped their community, too, each contributing some of their earnings to start a community garden to grow vegetables, and to help pay for orphans to go to school.

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1980

Major Accomplishment: In the 1980s, she became the driving force behind the first satellite mission to study tropical rainfall from space. Simpson said that she considered her involvement with the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, launched in 1997 and still operating today, to be the most important accomplishment of her career.

Point 1:  Simpson developed the first mathematical cloud model using a slide rule to do the calculations because computers weren't available. Her work sparked a brand new field of study in meteorology. In the early 1960s, she developed the first computer cloud model .

Point 2: Simpson really made her mark in meteorology in the late 1950s, when she and her former professor, Herbert Riehl came up with an explanation of how the atmosphere moved heat and moisture away from the tropics to higher latitudes. That explanation included the "hot tower" hypothesis that later shed light on hurricane behavior.

Point 3: In 1986, NASA asked Joanne to lead the science study for the proposed Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), a satellite to carry both active and passive microwave instruments to accurately measure rainfall across the tropics and subtropics. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and JAXA, Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency.

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2021

:I feel like Pollution is a huge problem and is hurting the environment

:Many cars give out pollution in the air and its about time someone had dealed with it

:We should stop pollution because the environment is getting hurt a lot because of this

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2021

:Founder of Mini Plex tree growth authorization.

:There are trees getting cut down every day so my company is gonna help grow them back.

:Whe should stop cutting trees because animals need the homes.

:Tree help the atmosphere so people should stop cutting them.