Posts Tagged ‘Health and Wellbeing’
Spring Edition of the WEAvings Newsletter: When women are safe
Read the latest WEAvings Newsletter Today Dear Friends, We’ve experienced the full spectrum of the human experience this month. We felt the solidarity of International Women’s Day as we gathered with many of you to plant trees and build the momentum of women led tree-growing efforts. We celebrated Women’s History Month and honored the legacy of generations…
Read MoreWho CAREs? Earth Day 2021 Event: Meet Rebecca Jim
Founder of LEAD (Local Environmental Action Demanded), Rebecca Jim has been a powerful advocate and spokesperson for Oklahoma’s Tar Creek Superfund site since the river “turned bad” in 1980, and became the official Tar Creekkeeper in 2016. . Tar Creek is considered to be one of the most toxic environments in the world and includes…
Read MoreWEA Women speak out on unity, hope and what’s next
Things feel different today than they did at the start of this month. While the events of early January prove there is still tremendous work to be done to heal our fractured communities and threatened environment—from both the immediate hardships we face as well as the legacies of injustice and environmental destruction—we are breathing a bit…
Read MoreU.S. set to rejoin the Paris Agreement
With this months’ shift in leadership came some long-awaited shifts in policy as well. Within the first few hours of taking office, President Joe Biden recommitted the U.S. to the Paris Climate Agreement, permanently stalled the Keystone XL pipeline, and ordered federal agencies to start reviewing and reinstating more than 100 environmental regulations that had…
Read MoreSummer Edition of the WEAvings Newsletter: We know this…
Read the latest WEAvings Newsletter Today Dear Friends, In a sea of unknowns, we know this: The women leaders of our global alliance are made for this moment. We are in Aceh, Indonesia, St. Louis, Missouri, and Assam, India launching food distribution programs, caring for our elders, providing clean water, creating mutual aid, and ensuring…
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