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Gala! Introducing the 2010 Host Committee

These are some of the many shoulders we stand on and minds we depend on. The following people will serve as the Host Committee for our Second Annual Weaving the Worlds Gala on May 26, 2010 and we’re thrilled to introduce you to them: Ari Derfel Aimee & Eloise Christensen Ben Schick Catriona Glazebrook Erica…

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Women and Land celebrates 1st anniversary

Happy (almost) Birthday! The Sacred Earth Advocacy Network, a project of WEA’s Women and Land Initiative, will celebrate its first birthday this June!  Over the past year, we’ve established a thriving and growing network of advocates applying their legal, policy and business expertise in pro bono partnership with indigenous women environmental justice leaders in North…

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Video! 2010 West Africa Women and Water Training

2010 West African Women & Water Training Program from Unseen Pictures on Vimeo.

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The Black Mesa Mine Mess

Women Earth Alliance’s Caitlin Sislin has written on High Country News about the current opportunity for comment regarding the Peabody Western Coal Company’s water permit review process.  She writes: “A controversial clean water permit for a coal mine complex sited at a Navajo and Hopi sacred mountain is once again up for review by the…

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Caitlin and WEA in the news

Women Earth Alliance’s Advocacy Director Caitlin Sislin was interviewed by VolunTourism, an organization that promotes volunteering around the world. In it she says, “Collaboration with and support of … women leaders is really an investment in health, sustainability and justice for communities.” Read the full interview here!

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One of many extraordinary women

The women involved in Women Earth Alliance are extraordinary women. Olanike Olugboji, a participant in the Global Women’s Water Initiative’s 2008 African Women and Water Training, has launched a new venture and has written about it on World Pulse. She writes, “when people’s daily needs are met, they are better able to think about the…

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Solutions for Community Resilience

2009 was a banner year for Women’s Earth Alliance, there’s no doubt about it. But we knew that the wave of momentum wasn’t going to stop. In fact, here on our blog we predicted that “2010 is going to rock.” So far it has, thanks to you. Last week we held the first Women’s Earth…

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Report from the West African Women and Water Training

Preparation Days-Global Women’s Water Initiative West African Women and Water Training By Mariah Maggio The latest adventure of GWWI’s Women and Water Training program in bringing powerful African women together to create solutions for water issues has begun! The phrase, “hit the ground running” was never as appropriately applied as to how it describes the…

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On being an environmental lawyer: storytelling with a purpose

(Cross-posted from the Science and Environmental Health Network‘s blog) As a young environmental attorney, I am fortunate to count Carolyn Raffensperger as one of my most trusted mentors. Carolyn’s advice and guidance deeply inform my work as the Advocacy Director for Women’s Earth Alliance, where I am building and stewarding a new pro bono legal…

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We did it! 2009 in review

Dear friends, You are amazing. Thanks to you, 2009 was a banner year for Women’s Earth Alliance. With a week left in 2009, we had raised 75% of our $100,000 match. By New Year’s Eve we had raised $120,000. In just six weeks, 135 donors stepped forward to make this possible. Here’s a fun slideshow…

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