"Vandana Shiva started out in quantum physics, something her school didnt even teach, but which she taught herself well enough to eventually study for a PhD in Canada. Somewhere in there, she met the tree huggers of the Chipko movement in the forests of Uttarakhand, the forests her father worked when she was a child, and it became clear that a life other than the one she intended lay in front of her. The scientist would have to take up the placards. These days she spends her life traveling the world, floating from confab to confab, angering, agitating, and inspiring." More in this Dumbo Feather interview with Vandana Shiva
