Wangari Maathai, died on Sunday night of cancer. She was 71.The first female African Nobel Peace Prize-winner, the first woman to receive a doctorate in Kenya; the organization she founded, the Green Belt Movement, is responsible for the planting of millions of trees. But Maathai planted more than trees; she planted ideas, specifically the idea that conflict and climate change are linked, that climate action will come from the bottom, and the idea that women must be in leadership of the transformation that we all need next. In this interview I had the temerity to ask for her "advice for the West." Resource wars loom here, too. In fact they're already breaking out. Equity matters. That's just part of her extraordinary response. Since we spoke, Maathai's been battling cancer. The industrialized nations have slowed, not sped, their progress towards change.  Maathai's death, as activists around the world marked "Moving Planet", a global mobilization "to move beyond fossil fuels" underscored what she taught, namely that action on climate change will be driven, by citizen action on governments, corporations and the media. Plant a tree for Maathai? Post at picture on the GRITtv Facebook page ? Additional video courtesy of PBS Independent Lens.