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Women Pioneers for the Environment.


WOMEN UP FRONT

From India's Chipko tree protection movement to the prime minister's office The Prime Minister's Office is a small department which provides advice to a Prime Minister in some countries:
  • Office of the Prime Minister (Canada)
  • British Prime Minister's Office
See also
  • Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
 in Norway, women have been stepping out of their traditional roles to spearhead environmental change. In Women Pioneers for the Environment, Mary Joy Breton describes the lives of over 40 such activists and the ecological circumstances which inspire them. Michiko Ishimuri, who brought Minamata Disease Minamata disease

Disease first identified in 1956 in Minamata, Japan. A fishing port, Minamata was also the home of Nippon Chisso Hiryo Co., a manufacturer of chemical fertilizer, carbide, and vinyl chloride.
 to the attention of the Japanese government, and Janet Gibson, who helped create Central America's first coral reef coral reef

Ridge or hummock formed in shallow ocean areas from the external skeletons of corals. The skeleton consists of calcium carbonate (CaCO3), or limestone. A coral reef may grow into a permanent coral island, or it may take one of four principal forms.
 reserve, are just two of the many spectacular examples. Available for $30.45 postpaid from Northeastern University Northeastern University, at Boston, Mass.; coeducational; founded 1898 as a program within the Boston YMCA, inc. 1916, university status 1922, fully independent of the YMCA 1948.  Press, 360 Huntington Avenue, 416 Columbus Place, Boston, MA 02115/(800)666-2211.
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