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Voices from the Ocean: Healing Our Waters with Sirenas de México
Protecting Our Oceans and Communities with Sirenas de México This is a virtual event. Spanish translation will be available. For many women across Mexico, leadership unfolds amid ongoing violence and insecurity. Protecting the ocean and natural resources is part of how they strengthen their communities, build resilience, and create pathways forward. This Women’s History Month,…
Winter WEAvings Newsletter: This is how we do it
WEA Leader Tri Astuti at the WEA’s 2019 Indonesia Grassroots Accelerator. Credit: Women’s Earth Alliance. Dear Friends, As 2025 comes to a close, we want to thank you for your steadfast championship of Women’s Earth Alliance. Your partnership has helped strengthen a vital ecosystem of women-led climate and health solutions. That’s why we’re asking for…
Fall WEAvings Newsletter: This is the future we are shaping
WEA Leaders from the Women and Climate Accelerator in Tanzania, a partnership of WEA and BUWEA. Credit: WEA and BUWEA Dear Friends, Over the past few months, our work has carried us across conversations and communities-at Climate Week NYC, where inclusion and accountability took center stage; and alongside our Program Leads in Bali, Mombasa, and…
Women Ecopreneurs in Bali Redefine Enterprise for People and Planet
Six women-led eco-enterprises across Indonesia joined WEA’s Ecopreneurs Lab in Bali to exchange ideas, strengthen collaboration, and reimagine what sustainable business can look like. Through shared learning, expert guidance, and creative practice, these women are building enterprises that care for people and the planet—showing how regenerative economies can thrive from the grassroots up.
Summer WEAvings Newsletter: It’s Working
Aniek Putu Ayu Puspawardani, WEA Leader at Kelecung Eco Village in Indonesia, photographed by Ken Kochey, photographer and director at WEA funding partner Laird and Good Company. Dear Friends, Across the country and around the world, we’re in a moment that’s asking all of us to choose care, courage, and connection. Many of us are…
Our Power, Our People, Our Planet: A Women-led Clean Energy Movement in Nigeria
People power has always been the heartbeat of change. But today, it’s clearer than ever that we’re at a turning point. Environmental degradation and injustice are no longer distant threats-they’re present, immediate, and reshaping lives in real time. They demand bold, collective action. This Earth Day, we’re reminded that the most effective solutions are often…
WEA’s 2025 Mexico Collaboratory: Women Leaders Flourishing, Rooted in the Land
Discover how the WEA Mexico Collaboratory 2025 is empowering women leaders to drive environmental and social transformation. From agroecology to water sovereignty, learn how grassroots initiatives are strengthening ecosystems and transforming communities across Mexico.
El Colaboratorio de WEA en México 2025: Mujeres Líderes Floreciendo desde el Territorio
Descubre cómo el Colaboratorio WEA México 2025 está empoderando a mujeres líderes para impulsar la transformación ambiental y social. Desde la agroecología hasta la soberanía del agua, conoce cómo las iniciativas comunitarias están fortaleciendo los ecosistemas y transformando comunidades en todo México.
Spring WEAvings Newsletter: Hope in the darkest moments
We are living in a time of both unprecedented challenge and transformative possibility. Environmental protections are unraveling, inequalities are deepening, and systems are failing the very people and planet they were meant to serve. Yet, even in the darkest moments, we see the incredible strength of women leaders—steadfast, visionary, and relentless in building a just future from the ground up.
Remediating Environmental Justice: How Black Girls, Green Futures is Restoring Land and Community After the California Wildfires
More than a month after the devastating wildfires in Southern California, their impact lingers—not only in the land but in the health and resilience of communities. Urban wildfires leave behind a toxic legacy, contaminating soil and water with heavy metals, microplastics, and harmful chemicals. These effects disproportionately burden Black and Brown neighborhoods, where systemic environmental injustices have already heightened exposure to pollution and displacement.
Black Girls, Green Futures (BGGF)—a new WEA initiative in partnership with Environmental Charter Schools and Seeds of Carver—is equipping young leaders with tools to restore their communities. Through bioremediation, hands-on apprenticeships, and leadership training, these leaders are reclaiming public green spaces, healing the soil, and advocating for long-term environmental justice.
Read more about how BGGF is driving solutions for post-fire recovery and resilience.