Posts Tagged ‘Water’
Indigenous Futures: U.S. Grassroots Accelerator Leaders Across Sectors
2022 U.S. Grassroots Accelerator Leader Nikila Badua and youth artists stand beside their completed mural “We’re not leading from way back when. We’re leading from right now. What are we dealing with right now? What are the solutions right now? We’re using that incredible [ancestral] knowledge in a very contemporary way.” ~ Casey Camp Horinek…
Read MoreWEA Alumni Circle Event: Reforesting the Planet
It has been proven time and again that women play a pivotal role in the efforts against climate change. Here, among us, are many such women who lead vast initiatives such as forest restoration and ecosystem protection, as part of their indigenous communities and work with grassroots level leaders to create the impacts that we…
Read More2022 Fall Newsletter: Healing ourselves, healing the earth
It’s in moments like these that caring for ourselves and one another are more important than ever. The good news is that, in this deep and heart-centered care work, the earth is our greatest ally and teacher—and healing is in fact all around us, all the time.
Read MoreThe results are in: Women are the key to a greener and more equitable world
Women, particularly Indigenous women and women of color, are catalysts for positive environmental change in the world. Because they often shoulder the heaviest impacts of climate change and environmental destruction, women know what our communities need in order to meet this moment on the planet.
Read MoreWEA Women of the 2019 Indonesia Accelerator: Raihal Fajri
Raihal Fajri is an activist from Aceh, Meunasah Manyang, Indonesia. After a tsunami devastated her region in 2004, Raihal witnessed a drastic deterioration in the quality of water coming from her community’s water source, which was located next to a nearby concrete mine. Noticing the way this pollution harmed the women and children of her…
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