Posts Tagged ‘US and Territories’
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…
Read MoreFall 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…
Read MoreSummer 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…
Read MoreSpring 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.
Read MoreRemediating 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.
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