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Across the Nation, Indigenous Women Are Fighting for Renewable Energy
To drill or not to drill—that’s the 30-year question Congress has debated over the fate of the U.S.’ largest wildlife preserve, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Faith Gemmill has an answer....
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Harvey, Women and Telling the Full Story
The devastation of Hurricane Harvey this week prompted a Newsweek piece looking at how women are impacted by natural disasters. It carried this warning: Domestic violence and sexual assaults spike in...
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Extreme Weather and Women’s Rights
This week’s extreme weather—Hurricanes Harvey and Irma close to home, and flooding and floods and drought in South Asia and East Africa—have prompted attention to the impact of human-induced global...
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When Disasters Hit, Women are Key to Recovery
Disasters have dominated recent headlines: Hurricanes Harvey and Irma flooded communities in the US, an earthquake decimated cities in Central America and floods devastated homes in India, Nepal and...
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Women Speak: Bringing Gender to the Forefront in Environmental Justice
“Women as a constituency are a strategic, powerful, and beautiful force that is often not recognized, supported or mobilized into action—despite clear evidence that women are key to making the...
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Women Speak: Patricia Gualinga Montalvo is Leading the Fight for Climate...
Patricia Gualinga Montalvo is a Kichwa leader from Sarayaku, Ecuador, working on the frontlines of the fight to end oil exploitation and militarization in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Mrs. Montalvo was a key...
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Women Speak: Reetu Sogani on Mainstreaming Social and Climate Justice
Reetu Sogani is the Honary Program Director of Chintan International Trust—as well as a development practitioner, researcher and advisor on gender, traditional knowledge, food and nutrition security...
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Women Speak: Neha Misra Brings Light—and Power—into the Lives of Women Around...
Neha Misra is a social entrepreneur, poet and visual folk artist with a deep belief in the power of human imagination and action to create new realities. She is the Co-Founder and Chief Collaboration...
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A 12-Year-Old Warrior for Justice
Angelika Soriano suffered her first asthma attack in the fourth grade, though she didn’t realize what it was at the time. She was walking to school in her Fruitvale neighborhood of East Oakland,...
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Securing Relief for Women and Girls in Dominica’s Devastation
I was born in Dominica, a small island of just over 71,000 people in the Caribbean that many people have never heard of. As a girl, I was lucky to grow up eating salted codfish and bakes, dancing to...
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Women Speak: Jacqueline Patterson Brings an Equity Lens to the Fight for...
Jacqueline Patterson, Director of the Environmental and Climate Justice Program at the NAACP, has worked as a researcher, coordinator, program manager, advocate and activist on issues spanning violence...
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Women Speak: Casey Camp-Horinek is Fighting Keystone XL in the Name of...
Casey Camp-Horinek is a Ponca Nation Councilwoman, elder and long-time Indigenous rights and environmental activist currently fighting on the front lines of the movement to stop the Keystone XL...
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Women Speak: Ruth Nyambura Insists On A Feminist Political Ecology
Ruth Nyambura is a Kenyan eco-feminist and researcher working on the intersections of ecological justice in Africa. Her work and activism uses a feminist political ecology lens to critically engage...
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Marching for an Eco-Feminist Revolution
One year ago, I found myself standing at the front of a packed airplane cloaked in a somber fog. Donald Trump had been inaugurated just hours before, and the plane reverberated with murmured...
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Five Ways the #MeToo and Climate Justice Movements Overlap
The news cycle is flooded every day with more and more challenging issues facing our nation. In particular, two topics that I care deeply about have been taking center stage as of late: gender-based...
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The Beacon of Baca: Meet the 23-Year-Old Bringing Clean Water To Her Navajo...
The residents of Baca, a small town on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico, are like those of any other town in America. There are families both big and small, single mothers and fathers, elders who...
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The Time is Still Now: Heeding Wangari Maathai’s Warnings in Turkana and Beyond
Dr. Wangari Maathai, the prophetic Kenyan environmentalist and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, recognized in the 1990s that deforestation in the horn of Africa would, if not addressed, lead to...
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Women are Disrupting the Energy Industry
Like in many other STEM fields, women are underrepresented in the energy workforce, accounting for only roughly 20 to 35 percent of the industry. But this trend is changing—and clean energy is leading...
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Reproductive Justice is Climate Justice: Why I’m Celebrating My IUD This...
Three years ago, on Earth Day, I became the proud owner of an IUD. I didn’t intentionally plan to get the long-acting birth control on a day marked by celebrations of the planet, but it was actually...
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How Women Are Rebuilding Nepal
This week marks three years since a massive earthquake leveled Nepal—killing 9,000 people, injuring an additional 22,000 and affecting roughly one-quarter of the country’s population. The earthquake...
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