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Kahea Pacheco

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What happens to the land, happens to our bodies. In recent months, both the U.S. and Canada have announced the allocation of resources dedicated to confronting the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirit Peoples...

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Resistance and Resurgence: Extractive Industry and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirit Peoples
September 24, 2021 | Lush Cosmetics
What happens to the land, happens to our bodies. In recent months, both the U.S. and Canada have...
'A Choice Point for Humanity': Women Demand Visionary Shift at UN Climate Talks
September 23, 2021 | Common Dreams
"This is the time to unite together to build the healthy and just future we know is possible for each other and the Earth."
What Can I Do? The path from climate despair to action, by Jane Fonda
September 7, 2021 | Penguin Random House
A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster...
'COOL': The First Book Documenting the Work of Global Female Climate Leaders
September 7, 2021 | GirlTalkHQ
It is clear that women, and especially young women of color, are leading the way on the global discussions...
New Educational Program: Teen Environmental Activism and Self Care
August 18, 2021 | Sierra Club
Now more than ever, teens have become increasingly aware of the threat posed to the future of our...
7 ways to promote supply chain diversity
July 30, 2021 | New Hope Network
Fostering inclusive environments is better for everyone. It increases employee engagement and reduces...
Preserving the Environment is the Duty of All of Us, O Earthlings
July 4, 2021 | Food News Indonesia
As living beings who live on earth, it is the duty of every human being to preserve this planet...
Four Women Environmental Activists Open WEA Collaboration Festival
July 2, 2021 | Magdalene
Nadine Chandrawinata, Florence Armein, Mama Aleta Baun, and Tiza Mafira are four female environmental...
Women and Land - How growing up on the land led to a career in environmental justice
May 5, 2021 | Environmental Voices Rising
Join me and Kahea Pacheco - a mixed heritage Native Hawaiian woman in a...
WILD ELEMENTS Foundation Launches With Unprecedented Approach to Investing in Women Conservation Leaders
April 27, 2021 | Cision PR Newswire
LOS ANGELES, April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, WILD ELEMENTS is launching its mission in action, the WILD...
Dialight Celebrates 50 Years of LED Innovation & Sustainability by Partnering with Women’s Earth Alliance
April 22, 2021 | LEDs Magazine
Farmingdale, NJ (April 22, 2021)—As part of its Earth Day celebration, Dialight (LSE: DIA), the global...
Organization Spotlight: Women’s Earth Alliance
April 2, 2021 | Feminist Book Club
Each month, Feminist Book Club supports a different non-profit organization with 5% of all revenue...
27 Inspiring Women Reshaping the Food System
March 11, 2021 | Food Tank
Women make up at least 43 percent of the agricultural workforce in developing countries, according...
Raising the Bar with Alli and Adrian: Why Investing in Female Leadership Makes the World a Better Place | with Amira Diamond and Melinda Kramer.
January 27, 2021 | Raising the Bar Podcast
Mother Nature takes on a whole new meaning with this week’s inspiring guests, Amira Diamond and...
Jane Fonda: Why women are at the forefront of climate solutions
September 8, 2020 | Ideas.TED
For thousands of years, a patriarchal paradigm has ruled. It’s the paradigm that has led to the climate crisis, an...
Sierra Club, Women’s Earth Alliance Launch Second Annual Climate Accelerator Program
May 6, 2020 | Sierra Club
WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, the Sierra Club’s Gender Equity and Environment Program and Women’s...
Pipelines, man camps and murdered Indigenous women in Canada
May 5, 2020 | Al Jazeera
Alberta, Canada – April Wiberg, 38, will always hate the smell of baby oil. More than 20 years after a traumatising...
Women Fighting the Climate Crisis
Spring 2020 | Earth Island Journal
Magaly Santos and I both unlatch our charm necklaces and gently set them in a circle of other keepsakes offered...
Chosen, 22 Women Women's Earth Alliance Indonesia
August 2, 2019 | Mongabay
One by one the female environmental fighters explained their activities and missions in front of a trainer who interviewed...
How Partnerships Catalyze and Sustain Grassroots Women’s Leadership
July 9, 2019 | Deliver For Good
Studies reveal that women’s networks enhance the capabilities of individual women leaders...
Why Women? Why Now? Gender and Our Environmental Crisis
April 17, 2019 | Ms. Magazine
Fires are raging. Sea levels are rising. While the scale of the climate crisis has grown, so has the band...
Wonder Women
March 28, 2019 | Sierra Club
Having heroes can be risky given how often they turn out to have feet of clay, but since this is Women's History...
Environmental Groups Announce Alliance to Bring Women to Forefront on Climate Solutions
March 21, 2019 | Sierra Club
Washington, DC-- Today, the Sierra Club Gender Equity Program and Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA)...
Community Development: Strategies That Serve
March 11, 2019 | Blue Avocado
After working for decades in international development, we’ve learned a lot that applies to nonprofits of all kinds...
Women, Politics and the Environment
March 10, 2019 | Women Deliver
It is internationally recognized that women’s empowerment is an essential precursor to economic growth, environmental...
Non-Profit Spotlight: Women's Earth Alliance
March 6, 2019 | Stasher
International Women's Day is this week and we're celebrating all month like it's our birthday...
Land and Body: Indigenous Groups Fight Environmental Violence
June 7, 2016 | TeleSUR
Indigenous land and rights defenders launched a week-long campaign Monday to take a stand against...
Weathering the Storms Together: Grassroots Women’s Response to Climate Change
September 28, 2015 | Earth Island Journal
In an event hall in the small village of Sirsi, on the edge of the Western Ghats in the Indian state of...

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Our view: 'The ground is bleeding.'
October 21, 2021 | The Joplin Globe
Remember the Gold King Mine disaster in Colorado that turned the Las Animas River orange a few years ago?...
Here are the themes from meetings across Colorado on the state's new congressional, legislative maps
September 3, 2021 | The Colorado Sun
It is clear that women, and especially young women of color, are leading the way on the global discussions...
Lil Milagro Henriquez-Cornejo on Climate Resilience Rooted in Ancestry
September 1, 2021 | For the Wild
In order to limit global temperature from exceeding a 1.5°C increase, we need to...
New Law Calls For More Environmental Justice in Colorado's Most Vulnerable Communities
September 1, 2021 | 303 Magazine
Making an effort to address environmental racism and mitigate climate change risks for...
Saving Culturally Signficant Seeds
August 2021 | Mother Earth News
Planting a seed is a sacred way for a hungry soul to walk the path back to...
Lia Putrinda, Save Sendangbiru from Paceklik
July 31, 2021 | Pejuang Iklim
Clungub Beach, Sendangbiru, Tambakrejo Village, Sumbermanjing Wetan, Malang Regency is...
In St. Louis, Tosha Phonix is Growing Food Justice
July 1, 2021 | Civil Eats
Tosha Phonix learned to farm in 2011. As a new mom, she wanted...
Treaty People Gathering boosts pressure on disputed oil pipeline
June 8, 2021 | Esperanza Project
BEMIDJI, Minnesota — Massive direct actions to stop Line 3 tar-sands crude-oil pipeline construction here in...
The life of a researcher studying springs in the Himalayas
May 14, 2021 | The Third Pole
It is a rocky, uneven path down to the spring where the women of Damthang village in South Sikkim go to...
Hot Mamas Episode 1: Talking with Dr. Amanda Millstein
May 13, 2021 | Hot Mamas Podcast
The very first episode of Hot Mamas features a conversation with Dr. Amanda Millstein, a mother of two...
16 WOMEN Restoring the Earth
April, 2021 | Global Landscapes News
Raising up female leaders defining the future of our planet through their ideas, talents, actions and inspiration...
Championing the Environment with Huda Alkaff and the Wisconsin Green Muslims
April 13, 2021 | Wisconsin Muslim Journal
Ramadan, Islam’s holiest month, converges this year with Earth Month, a time designated to inspire protection and...
Magaly Santos Speaks Up for Farmworkers
July 1, 2020 | Sierra Club
As a kid, Magaly Santos never thought much about the strange chemical odor that would sometimes drift through the...
14 Powerful Native Leaders to Celebrate on Indigenous People’s Day
October 14, 2019 | Vice
Alaska State Library, Amy Lou Blood Barney Collection. A record number of cities and states will celebrate...
Letter: Mountain Valley Pipeline would desecrate Native American grounds
September 15, 2019 | The Times News
I am a member of the state-recognized tribe in Alamance County, the Occaneechi band of the Saponi nation...
The Death & Life of Tar Creek | Rebecca Jim, Tar Creekkeeper
July 2019 | Waterkeeper Alliance
Tar Creek springs from the ground in southeast Kansas, and then meanders through gently rolling farmland...
Seeds and Their Keepers are Key to Preserving India’s Food Diversity
July 1, 2019 | Earth Island Journal
Let’s start at the very beginning. Some might say that it all began with the seeds. Seeds have long been a part...
Firewood smoke kills over 93,000 people annually, says NGO
April 30, 2017 | The Guardian - Nigeria
The Women’s Initiative for Sustainable Environment (WISE) and Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA) have...