Greening the Golden Years: Three Senior Women Making News
This is the story of three women, two sisters from Chile and an activist who lives in Canada. Ten years and several thousand miles separate their stories, but the message is the same: seniors get things done.
The first picture is that of Nicolasa Quintreman, who lived in an area of southern Chile along a river called the Biobio. She and her sister became active protesters when plans were made to build hydro-electric dams on the Biobio, flooding her ancestral home.
Our second activist was born in the United States and immigrated to Canada in 1966. She’s 78 years old, and has made activism her life, and that has led to her present predicament, as witnessed by her picture.
Interesting women with special events in their lives, all in the name of preserving nature.
August 2nd, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Nice story. It’s just a tad too short. It says nothing about what these three are doing, like, are the sisters stopping the dam? What is the woman in jail for. So, the beef of the story is missing.
Could you post a follow-up or reedit this one.
Thank You,
Richard Boettner.
August 2nd, 2007 at 5:57 pm
Richard–
That information is all in the podcast — click the start button just above the text, and you can listen o the full story…
Jeff
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Jeff McIntire-Strasburg
Senior Editor
Green Options
jeff@greenoptions.com