Margaretha Guidone

Margaretha 'Maggie' Guidone (born ca. 1956) is a housewife from Helmond (the Netherlands) living in Kapellen (Belgium) who became famous in Flanders because of her campaign for the environment and against global warming.^[1][2] She successfully urged politicians to go see the new climate documentary by Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth.^[3] 200 politicians and political staff accepted her invitation, among whom were Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt and Minister-President of Flanders, Yves Leterme.^[4]

Belgian federal minister of environment Bruno Tobback donated his speech time at the climate conference in Nairobi, Kenya to her.^[5] She addressed the conference on 15 November 2006, but was unsuccessful at drawing much attention, for the international press didn't pay much attention to her.^[6] Since then, she cancelled her year-long Groen! membership in favor of Tobback's Different Socialist Party^[7] and published a book.^[8]

Footnotes

1. ^ Weinig weerklank in wereldpers voor Kapelse huisvrouw (Dutch) - De Standaard, 17 November 2006
2. ^ Huisvrouw promoot documentaire Al Gore (Dutch) - Gazet van Antwerpen, 18 October 2006
3. ^ Pascale Thewissen: Helmondse voor België naar klimaattop VN (Dutch) - Eindhovens Dagblad, 18 November 2006
4. ^ Al Gore schopt 200 politici geweten (Dutch) - De Standaard, 30 October 2006
5. ^ Huisvrouw spreekt klimaattop toe (Dutch) - De Standaard, 10 November 2006
6. ^ Weinig weerklank in wereldpers voor Kapelse huisvrouw (Dutch) - De Standaard, 17 November 2006
7. ^ Groene huisvrouw Guidone dumpt Groen! voor sp.a (Dutch) - De Standaard, 29 December 2006
8. ^ De kracht om te veranderen (Dutch) - Bond Beter Leefmilieu

References

• Housewife addresses climate conference - VRT, 16 November 2006
• Column "Rood", door Patrick De Witte (PDW). De Standaard 24 mei 2007.

External links

• Guidone's speech (Dutch) - Gazet van Antwerpen, 15 November 2006
• Het Nairobidagboek van Margaretha Guidone (Dutch)

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Name	Guidone, Margaretha
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Short description	environmentalist
Date of birth	c. 1956
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