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Women Environmental Leaders Gather in Bali: Empowering Change for Indonesia’s Future
by Jen Palmer, WEA Special Initiatives Lead; Melisa Apriyani, WEA Indonesia Program Manager; and Sarita Pockell, WEA Learning Architect On October 14-19 in Bali, Indonesia, ...
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Rising Together: A Call to Resilience and Action
Dear Community, This morning brings a sense of uncertainty, and for many of us, it feels heavy. The last 12 hours have left countless people ...
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Investing in Women’s Leadership: A Climate Imperative at NYC Climate Week
By Amira Diamond, Melinda Kramer, Kahea Pacheco, WEA Co-Directors WEA team and WEA Leaders at an event co-hosted with our partners at Project Dandelion during ...
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Eco-entrepreneurship as a Key Climate Solution: Weaving together equity, economic justice, community resilience and environmental protection
Would you believe that the pineapple fiber cloth draped across Asiyah Odist's Pinalo stand in Lombok is a key women-led climate solution? The pineapple leaves, ...
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Women on the Frontlines: Climate Change, Gender-Based Violence, and Reproductive Rights
By: EngenderHealth and Women's Earth Alliance We often hear that those who have contributed the least to the climate crisis bear its most severe consequences, ...
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Fall Equinox WEAvings: Honoring Achievements, Climate Leadership, and the Path Ahead
Dear Friends, With the Fall Equinox just days away, I find myself reflecting on the shifts happening around us-both in nature and in our work. ...
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Heinz Family Foundation Names Founders of Women’s Earth Alliance Recipients of the 29th Heinz Awards
Amira Diamond (left) and Melinda Kramer (right), Co-Founders and Co-Executive Directors of Women's Earth Alliance. Photo Credit: Joshua Franzos PITTSBURGH, September 17, 2024 - The ...
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A Call for Justice and the Rights of Nature: The Yesah Tribunal returns a verdict on the MVP
By Lauren Bowman Clontz, WEA Program + Operations Intern Earlier this summer, on June 1st, a groundbreaking event took place in Rockingham County, North ...
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Summer Edition of the WEAvings Newsletter: Sunflowers, Dandelions and more blooming at WEA
photo credit: Fiona McLeod Dear Friends, June was a month of transformation. As we shifted from the vibrant renewal of spring to the nurturing warmth ...
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Women of Leuser: Transforming Economies and Defending Indonesia’s Last Wild Spaces
by Hannah Adams, WEA Global Program Manager In the heart of Indonesia's Leuser Ecosystem, Indigenous women are taking action to defend and conserve their ...
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Sunflowers as a Natural Solution to Detoxify Soil and Air in Los Angeles
This article was originally published by Seeds of Carver. Research by Dr. Rahseeda Hawk, written by Ayana Hawk At the Seeds of Carver Urban ...
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Each Time We Gather, the World Changes: Why Alliance-Building is Key to Creating Transformative Change in Mexico
by: Laura Vigil Escalera Mier, WEA Mexico Regional Coordinator, and Daniela Perez, WEA North America/Pacific Program Director Haga clic aquí para leer este artículo en ...
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Cuando nos reunimos, el mundo cambia: Por qué la construcción de alianzas es clave para crear un cambio profundo en México
por Laura Vigil Escalera Mier, Coordinadora Regional de WEA México, y Daniela Perez, Directora del Programa WEA Norteamérica/Pacífico Click here to read this article in English ...
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Spring Edition of the WEAvings Newsletter: Planting seeds of change
Rose Wamalwa, WEA East Africa Program Director, with a WEA/WWANC Leader in Kenya. Photo Credit: Anthony Wanjiku Dear Friends, As the northern hemisphere welcomes the ...
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Seven Ways WEA Celebrates the Earth Every Day
At WEA, there is nothing we love more than celebrating the Earth! And we believe that the best way to do that is by taking ...
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Historic Land Back Victory: West Berkeley Shellmound Returns to Lisjan Nation
After years of struggle, the sacred West Berkeley Shellmound has been protected! Guided by Corrina Gould, Chairperson of the Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation and ...
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Seeds of Change: A Glimpse into WEA’s Transformative Journey in Kenya
Amira Diamond and Melinda Kramer with WEA Leaders in Kenya. Photo Credit: Anthony Wanjiku Returning from an incredible trip to Western Kenya, our hearts are ...
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WEA’s Mexico Program Builds Solidarity Among Climate Leaders
WEA launched our new Mexico Program this month, centered around partnerships with six women-led collectives creating environmental impact throughout the country. It's hard to ...
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WEA’s Alliance Hosts Global Activations for International Women’s Day
by: Kayla Mak, WEA Programs and Operations Intern On March 8, 2024, WEA Leaders and our partners around the globe celebrated International Women's Day. From ...
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Waste, Not Wood, Makes the Best Charcoal
by Claire Greenburger This article first appeared in the Earth Island Journal. It's mid-morning in Uganda's rainforest. Godliver Businge stands outside her home, full of ...
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The WEA 2023 Impact Report is Live!
DOWNLOAD THE REPORT WEA's 2023 Impact Report tells a story of resilience, empowerment, and transformation. Last year through our concerted efforts in 11 countries working ...
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Huge climate win as Biden pauses polluting LNG exports
Roishetta Ozane and other advocates dedicated to protecting frontline communities along the Gulf Coast (credit: courtesy of Roishetta Ozane) LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA - On Friday, ...
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Winter Edition of the WEAvings Newsletter: Lighting the Way With You
A WEA Leader in our 2023 Women and Climate Accelerator in Tanzania, done in partnership with Bukoba Women's Empowerment Association (BUWEA). Dear Friends, Happy Winter ...
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WEA Leaders rally to demand climate justice, representation ahead of COP28
by Fiona McLeod, WEA's Communications and Development Manager Last week, over 2,000 women marched in Kaduna, Nigeria to demand climate justice for women and ...
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Fall Edition of the WEAvings Newsletter: Look what can happen in 2 weeks
Left: WEA Global Program Manager Dr. Annesha Chowdhury, PhD (middle) with friends at colleagues at the Climate March in NYC. Credit: Amira Diamond / Middle ...
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WEA Joins Thousands of Climate Allies in the March to End Fossil Fuels
by Fiona McLeod, WEA's Communications and Development Manager This month, WEA joined 75,000 other climate advocates for the March to End Fossil Fuels in ...
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Announcing WEA’s 2023 U.S. Regenerative Agriculture & Health Accelerator Cohort
BERKELEY, CA - Women's Earth Alliance (WEA), a global organization dedicated to empowering women's leadership to safeguard the environment and their communities, is thrilled to ...
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8 Ways to Live More Sustainably
by Erika Nakagawa, Programs & Operations Intern If you're reading this, you're probably already interested in finding ways to support women and the earth. Although ...
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The Mother of Mangroves: Inspiration in the Face of Deforestation
Credit: CMC Tiga Warna As we approach July 26th, the International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem, we are thrilled to highlight Lia ...
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Summer Edition of the WEAvings Newsletter: Summer vibes, spring gathering, #PlantingSeedGrants, and more!
Dear Friends, Yesterday, communities in the Northern Hemisphere celebrated Summer Solstice. It was a vibrant reminder that 2023 is halfway over, and that we're beginning ...
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Women’s Earth Alliance Partners with L’Oréal Paris to Promote Women’s Environmental Entrepreneurship
Berkeley, CA (June 14, 2023) - Women's Earth Alliance (WEA), a global organization dedicated to empowering women's leadership to safeguard the environment and their communities, ...
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Ensuring that Life Can Grow: Reflecting on Our Time in Mexico
by Fiona McLeod, WEA's Communications and Development Manager Our team recently had the opportunity to travel to Mexico to meet with new and old partners, ...
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You’re invited on 5/10! Women-led Climate Solutions for a Thriving Future: A look at East Africa
Join Women's Earth Alliance for a World WEAver Online Event Women-led Climate Solutions for a Thriving Future in East Africa WEDNESDAY, MAY 10TH 9:30 AM ...
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“I am one but I’m not alone” — Reflecting on our time in Brazil
Our hearts are full as we write to you, having just returned from an incredible trip to Piauí, Brazil. We are thrilled to announce the ...
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Love as Liberation: Poetry for Reproductive and Climate Justice
The Women's Foundation California (WFC) recently published Intersection: a collaborative zine that uplifts the voices of community poets and activists and creates a collective space ...
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Grassroots Feminists are Breaking the Cycle of Conflict and Climate Disaster
By: Annesha Chowdhury, WEA's Global Programs Manager On a crisp mid-March morning, I took a busy train from Queens to Manhattan to get to ...
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Spring Edition of the WEAvings Newsletter: All we need to meet this moment
Dear Friends, As we welcome in the Spring here in the Northern Hemisphere, we recognize that Winter has left us with a lot to take ...
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Transforming Lives and Livelihoods through Eco-Entrepreneurship
At 38 years old and the widowed mother of 5, Namuddu Harriet had begun to feel weighed down by the compounding challenges she faced on ...
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Grassroots Women Are Saving Kenya’s Last Tropical Rainforest
Nestled along the eastern edge of the Congo Basin forests, the Kakamega tropical rainforest is the last of its kind in Kenya. First established as ...
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Grassroots initiatives, global impacts
This International Women's Day, we're celebrating the transformative power of grassroots women-led solutions to create global impact and ensure a just and sustainable future. Grassroots ...
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This Holiday Season, Celebrate Food & Farmers with WEA Grassroots Accelerator Leaders
Johanie Rivera-Zayas Today's conventional agriculture has traditionally produced 10-20% more yields than organic and regenerative agriculture-but at a steep and unsustainable cost. In fact, research ...
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Just Released! WEA’s 2022 Impact Report
As the year nears its end and the natural world enters a time of transition from one season to the next, we find ourselves taking ...
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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 ...
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WEA 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 ...
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My time at COP27: What does women’s climate leadership look like?
Fluorescent lighting. Negotiators and activists wander with tired eyes wearing suffocating suits. Food is scarce. The United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP) can be ...
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Showcasing women-led ground-up climate resilience efforts at G20
Last week, the 2022 G20 Summit took place in Bali, Indonesia, under the ambitious theme of "Recover Together, Recover Stronger". While the international forum focused ...
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2022 Fall Newsletter: Healing ourselves, healing the earth
Dear Friends, We've been thinking about healing lately. Healing our bodies and hearts, healing our communities, healing the earth. Maybe it's a sixth sense of ...
Read More Seeding community, empowerment, and healing with women leaders in the U.S.
Even when we are small, when we start leveraging our efforts, we become big. -- Johanie Rivera-Zayas 2022 U.S. Grassroots Accelerator Leader On October 26th ...
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The results are in: Women are the key to a greener and more equitable world
(from left to right) 2022 U.S. Leaders Tanasia Swift, Johanie Rivera-Zayas, and Dail Chambers Women, particularly Indigenous women and women of color, are catalysts for ...
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WEA Alumni Circle Event: Presenting Our Impact
Approaching the end of the year, as project leaders, we are ought to report the impacts we have given through our projects. Collecting the ...
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Spending a day restoring coral reefs with Biorock Indonesia
Coral Reef Project, Pemuteran, Bali Today I had the incredible opportunity of visiting and experiencing the Biorock project in Bali, Indonesia. I am staying in ...
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New Communal Forest program launches with 130 square meters of demonstration plots in Indonesia
Congratulations to WEA Leaders and Indonesia Accelerator alumni Aniek Puspawardani from Bali and Nedhy Priscila Neonbeni from East Nusa Tenggara have been chosen to pilot ...
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WEA launches program to build Rural Climate and Economic Resilience (RuCLER) in Indonesia
WEA Leader Tya Sari at an expo presenting Balini Organic's energy bars, a project supported by WEA. Following the devastating impact of COVID-19 over these ...
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WEA Alumni Circle Event: Grassroots Fundraising
Every project needs financial support and often we need to gather it from a wider community. In the past 16 years, Women Earth Alliance ...
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Just Released! Mid-Year Impact Report 2022
Did you know that the root of the word crisis is the Greek word κρίσις, which means to sift? Author Kathleen Norris once wrote that ...
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WEA Alumni Circle Event: Movement Building
The WEA Alumni Circle is back! This virtual event series is specially organized for all the environmental leaders who have participated in WEA programs ...
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2022 Summer Newsletter: Taking stock of the seeds we’ve planted
Dear Friends, Happy Summer Solstice! As with every turning of the season, this is often a reflective period-one where we take stock of the seeds ...
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“Investing in women’s leadership is investing in entire communities” — Food Sovereignty Leader joins WEA to Lead North America/Pacific Program
Daniela Perez is passionate about gardens, the food they grow and stories that food will uncover, and creating powerful learning experiences for women environmental leaders. ...
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Resilience and Action: an antidote for ‘Climate Doomism’
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash. Fifty-six percent. That's the staggering number of respondents in a survey of 10,000 people aged 16-25 and spanning 10 ...
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“The land is our Mother”: Responding to extractive industry and COVID-19 in Indonesia
By Adolfina Kuum Adolfina Kuum preparing to go out on the river with community members to assess water pollution issues. Understanding women's relationships with the ...
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2022 Spring Newsletter: The antidote is us
Dear Friends, There is a lot happening in the world right now. And while it has been difficult to watch the news lately and not ...
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Now Hiring: North America/Pacific Program Director
Women's Earth Alliance is thrilled to share that we are seeking a North America/Pacific Program Director to join our global team. This is a dynamic role ...
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Join WEA + World Economic Forum to discuss scaling forest protection and restoration
In celebration of this year's International Day of Forests, WEA Co-Director Kahea Pacheco will join the World Economic Forum for a timely discussion on scaling ...
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The Climate Crisis is a Women’s Issue
Credit: Rucha Chitnis Courageous. Innovative. Resilient. Loving. These are just a few of the words that come to mind when we think of the 12,645 ...
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ToQuyen Doan joins WEA as Director of Philanthropic Partnerships
WEA is thrilled to welcome ToQuyen Doan as our Director of Philanthropic Partnerships. ToQuyen, who joins us from her most recent position as Development Director, ...
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Now Hiring | North America/Pacific Program Director
Job Title: North America/Pacific Program Director Location: Remote - with option to use office space in Berkeley, CA Start Date: March 14, 2022 or ASAP ...
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5 principles for partnering with communities on forest restoration
WEA Leader Fatuma Erima stands amongst trees she planted on her land in Kenya. // Image: Anthony Wanjiku. Indigenous peoples and local communities must be ...
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Just Released! WEA’s 2021 Impact Report
We asked you to change the world with us. And you did. At this time last year-as we all entered another year of what felt ...
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Match extended! You can STILL help a woman change the world.
Hello friends, Your support of WEA and the women we serve really does change the world! Together, you and our global alliance are helping to heal our ...
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This Giving Tuesday: Help a woman change the world
You can Help TWICE as many Women to Change the World Hello friends! You already know that women have the power to change the world. ...
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WATCH NOW: A post-COP26 conversation with Vital Voices and women leaders on SDG 13, women, and climate change
In the days following the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26), we were honored to join our partners Vital Voices and an inspiring ...
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Light a fire in solidarity with Indigenous elders, WEA and Grounded during COP26
Minga Indigena, Grounded and Women's Earth Alliance invite you to join us on November 7th at 9AM (your time) to stand with Indigenous communities around the world, many ...
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WATCH NOW: Climate Advocacy Lab discusses Care & Climate Narratives with WEA and others
The Feminist Green New Deal Coalition released a report with Data for Progress that finds there is a strong shared belief that care should be central to climate, workforce, and infrastructure ...
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WATCH NOW: The Shift Network’s Facebook Live Q&A with WEA’s Kahea Pacheco
Our daily actions directly impact the environment, and we can all make a difference. As part of this year's EcoChallenge, our colleagues at The Shift ...
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WEAvings Fall Newsletter: Now is the time
Read the latest WEAvings Newsletter Today Dear Friends, In August, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report confirmed what has been devastatingly clear to frontline ...
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WATCH NOW: Community Driven Fire Resilience Strategies and Indigenous Fire Ecology World WEAver Event
Over the past few years, fire season has plagued the West Coast. These fires have taken lives, homes, native plants and animals, and thousands of ...
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WATCH NOW: WEA talks Food Sovereignty at Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice
WEA was honored to speak at the Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice: Solutions from the Frontlines and the Protection and Defense of Human Rights ...
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WATCH NOW: The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon features WEA Partner Trees for Jane
Our planet has already lost 3 trillion trees, and protecting forests means protecting our future. That's why we're thrilled to partner with Trees For Jane! Founded by Dr. ...
Read More WEA joins Call to Action urging Governments & Financial Institutions to take immediate climate action
Women's Earth Alliance has signed on to the Call to Action statement released in the run-up to the Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice, which ...
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WATCH NOW: WEA Leaders join Jane Goodall in an activist roundtable discussion
Earlier this week, as part of Goals House at the UN General Assembly, Rose Wamalwa (Founder of WWANC, and WEA East Africa Director), and Farwiza Farhan (Founder of ...
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WEA partners with Jane Goodall to protect forests and our future
We're thrilled to announce that we've been selected as a forest protection partner by Trees for Jane! Founded by Dr. Jane Goodall and Jeff Horowitz, Trees for Jane ...
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World WEAver Indigenous Fire Ecology: Meet Edward (Redbird) Willie
Edward (Redbird) Willie is a native ecologist with many years' experience teaching Traditional Ecological Knowledge, fire ecology, permaculture, and ancestral skills to people of all ...
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These Indigenous women are organizing a movement to stop a deadly pipeline
Water Walk in opposition to the Mountain Valley Pipeline, May 2021. Video: Mothers Out Front. When Desirée Shelley moved from Maryland to a rural valley ...
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Summer Edition of the WEAvings Newsletter: An age-old care economy
Read the latest WEAvings Newsletter Today Dear Friends, For generations, women around the world have birthed children and movements, nurtured families and the earth, stewarded communities ...
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Building resilience in the Maasai community
There are no communities in the world immune from the impacts of climate change and COVID-19. For members of the Maasai community in Kenya, these ...
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Reconnecting Indigenous youth to their forest roots
"Honestly when I first joined WEA, I was very insecure standing with all the amazing women from all around Indonesia who have been doing incredible ...
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Indigenous Leaders Walk to Protect Water
Photo credit: Crystal Cavalier-Keck On Sunday, May 2, 2021, over 90 teams of walkers, runners, cyclists, and paddlers participated in a Water Walk from Virginia ...
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For the mothers who care for us all
Today is a very special Mother's Day. Many of us are able to safely spend the day with our mothers after more than a year of ...
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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 ...
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Who 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 ...
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Who CAREs? Earth Day 2021 Event: Meet Dominique Thomas
Dominique Thomas is a grassroots organizer, researcher, Afrofuturist Black feminist nerd based in Harlem, New York. In 2020 she launched The Climate League, a training ...
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Who CAREs? Earth Day 2021 Event: Meet Crystal Cavalier-Keck and Desireé Shelley Flores
The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is a proposed 303-mile pipeline from West Virginia to Virginia that is intended to carry fracked gas from the Appalachian ...
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WATCH NOW: WEA discusses Women, Gender Equality, and Climate Change at CSW65
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment ...
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We’re ready for action
This International Women's Day, please join us in taking action alongside grassroots women leaders who are caring for our communities-saving indigenous seeds, selling clean cookstoves, launching sustainable ...
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What Happened in Texas?
"I keep reminding folks that if we had started working on this plan a year ago, paying particular attention to adaptation measures, we could have ...
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Celebrating Black women leaders in the environmental movement
For generations, Black women have built a movement around community and climate resilience. In the face of racial injustice, gender inequity, economic disparities and disproportionate ...
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WEA 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 ...
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U.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 ...
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Black Lives Matter
Dear Community, We hope you are taking care of yourselves and each other right now. If there is someone you’ve been meaning to check in ...
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Summer 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 ...
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We were made for this.
To our Community and Beyond, All of us at Women’s Earth Alliance are thinking of you, your families, communities, and organizations during this time. From ...
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Say hello to our Spring Interns: Hi Kiya!
Name: Kiya Leake Role at WEA: Programs + Operations Intern Hometown: Los Angeles Fun Fact: Being on an amateur baking show is on my bucket ...
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What is advocacy?
ADVOCACY is at the core of what Women's Earth Alliance does - but what exactly does that mean? To us, advocacy is storytelling with ...
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Say hello to our Spring Interns: Hi Coco!
Name: Coco McCarthy Role at WEA: Programs and Operations Intern Hometown: Cupertino, CA Fun Fact: Coco is my real name, for some reason. I think ...
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What is ecofeminism?
When talking about the intersection of gender + the environment, you'll often hear the term "ECOFEMINISM." But what exactly does it mean? We love the ...
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Say hello to our spring interns: Hi Samantha!
Name: Samantha Clevenger Role at WEA: Programs + Operations Intern Hometown: Pleasanton Fun Fact: I can’t ride a bike! Why did you want to intern ...
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What does grassroots mean?
WEA works with "grassroots" leaders. But what exactly do we mean by "grassroots," and why is it such an important part of what we ...
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Say hello to our fall interns: Hi Jade!
Each semester WEA has the privilege of working with a cohort of brilliant and passionate young environmental leaders who lend support, share perspectives, and bring ...
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Fall Edition of the WEAvings Newsletter: 2019 US Grassroots Accelerator Launch!
Read the latest WEAvings Newsletter Today As we innovate, take risks, and reach for our dreams this fall season, we have been asking ourselves—What if ...
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Say hello to our fall interns: Hi, Glenna!
To say we are incredibly fortunate and honored to be able to work with young women leaders like Glenna Herbert is an understatement. Glenna has ...
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Water Conservation Tips
WEA's home base in California is in an unpredictable and devastating wildfire season, and we are doing everything we can to conserve water and help ...
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Say hello to our summer interns: Hey, Madison!
To say we are incredibly fortunate and honored to be able to work with young women leaders like Madison is an understatement. Madison is a ...
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Plastic Pollution and Women’s Health
As this year's #PlasticFreeJuly comes to a close, we want to share just a few ways that plastics in our products, homes and work impact ...
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Say hello to our summer interns: Hi, Carmen!
We love summer for so many reasons. It’s that perfect in-between time of year when seeds planted in the spring blossom, bloom and grow strong, ...
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Growing Concern Over Indonesian President’s Investment Remarks
Palm oil deforestation in Indonesia As the 2019 Indonesia Accelerator in Bali moves into its third day of local women environmental leaders collaborating to find ...
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Start ’em Young: A Guide to Climate, Women, and Justice Children’s Books
Spark discovery in youth with these books that are made to inspire! With messages of justice, creativity, innovation, and persistence, these are great reads for ...
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Say hello to our summer interns: Hi, Lia!
One of the things we witness time and time again is that women hold the seeds for transforming the world. We see it in our ...
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WEA Women of the 2019 Indonesia Accelerator: Putu Ayu Aniek
Putu Ayu Aniek is a community organizer from Bali, Indonesia. Growing up in Bali, Aniek felt first-hand the growing impact of tourism on her community. ...
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New UN Report Confirms Gender Gap in Food Security
Over 820 million people worldwide currently suffer from food insecurity and hunger. As the High Level Political Forum continues this week to track the world’s ...
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Say hello to our summer interns: Hey, Amanda!
Ever wonder who’s helping to keep the drumbeat of our social media going? Who's the magic behind our SEO? Who's got her finger on the ...
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WEA Women of the 2019 Indonesia Accelerator: Rubama
Rubama is a community organizer from Aceh, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. She has worked for fourteen years to engage the women of her community in an ...
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Summer Edition of the WEAvings Newsletter: Change is in your hands
READ THE LATEST WEAVINGS NEWSLETTER TODAY Women hold the seeds of change. This season has been alive with activity, and full of generous, heartfelt ...
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WEA 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 ...
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In Honor of Moms Everywhere
Happy Mother's Day Mothers come in many forms. Today, WEA honors the work of mothers and community caregivers around the world—women who are mothering children and ...
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Run4Salmon 2019: Save the Date
Each September for the past 2 years, Chief Caleen Sisk has led the Winnemem Wintu Tribe and allies in the Run4Salmon, a 300-mile journey from ...
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Meet the Interns: Hi, Ashley!
"Women are the backbones of their communities, and yet they face marginalization on multiple fronts. If we are able to cultivate spaces where women’s rights ...
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RESIST and RECLAIM Giveaways Coming Soon!
To celebrate the release of RISE — the third in our series of four illustrations by local artist Mara Gerson — which launches in September, this ...
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New RIPPLE print
Everyday, WEA women leaders model this most basic truth: when women are equipped with resources and support, they not only profoundly impact their local environment, ...
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Meet our newest board member, Charity Tooze
WEA's newest Leadership Board member, Charity Tooze, is a longtime champion of women’s rights, and currently serves as Director of Gender, Partnerships, and Communications with ...
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Meet Binta: A Clean Cookstove Leader, Advocate, and Entrepreneur
Binta Yahaya is a community mobilizer and environmental advocate from Lere, a rural town in Kaduna State, Nigeria. In her town, most women and girls ...
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A silent, nurturing, and green seed revolution
"Beyond the city, past the highway...in the State of Karnataka, there’s a revolution — silent, nurturing and green. A revolution nurtured by...women of the region ...
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Women Leaders on the Frontlines at USOW
Last month, WEA was honored to be a community partner for the United State of Women Summit where we co-hosted and presented at the "Eco ...
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Join us for the Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice
WEA is honored to participate in the Women's Assembly for Climate Justice: Women Leading Solutions on the Frontlines of Climate Change on September 11th in ...
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WEA Voice: Olanike Olugboji
Olanike Olugboji — WEA partner and founder of Nigerian NGO WISE — was recently recognized with the Sustainability, Environment and Advocacy Award for demonstrating exceptional proficiency in Eco-Business Advocacy. ...
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WEA Voice: Emmanuela Shinta
In a moment of global environmental crisis, Indonesia is ground zero. In response, it is the women of Indonesia who are rising to meet these ...
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A victory for sacred site protection at the West Berkeley Shellmound
On June 5, the City of Berkeley denied Blake Griggs/West Berkeley Investors' application to fast-track development of a massive 260-unit project, which would desecrate ...
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Women you should know
Last week, history was made as a record number of women (and women of color) were elected to office during the U.S. midterm elections. 256 women, to ...
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Beyond the Violence on the Land, Violence on our Bodies report
The Shedding Light on Environmental Violence Initiative shows us that what happens to the land, happens to our bodies. Chrissy Swain, a leader featured in our ...
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India Ripple Academy Learning Lab: Applications Open
Applications for the India Ripple Academy Learning Lab are still open and the deadline to apply is July 31st. The Learning Lab is a 2-month ...
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The Ripple Academy Sets Sail
Dear Earth Allies, We've set sail for the next chapter! This Fall, thirty women from throughout India will gather in Rishikesh, India to kick off ...
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WEA stands with Run4Salmon
This summer, WEA was deeply honored to once again stand with Chief Caleen Sisk of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, and Corrina Gould of the Confederated ...
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URI’s Ripple Academy
In early September, 30 women environmental leaders from throughout India began their journey with WEA and URI’s Ripple Academy. Join us in Rishikesh and meet ...
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Exciting things are "rippling" away here at Ripple Academy HQ, and we can't wait to share them with you! 1) Our design committee comprised of ...
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Indigenous Women Taking Active Role in Bolivia’s Agriculture
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Over the last few years, it has become heartbreakingly evident that being an environmental activist these days is not only difficult, but dangerous as well. ...
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A highlight of the work we do here at WEA is that we are fortunate enough to do so alongside the women who will continue ...
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Here at WEA, we have spent the last 7 years committed to small scale, regenerative farming practices that restore rather than deplete our lands. Currently, ...
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In a recent article by Suresh Babu of the International Food Policy Research Institute, Babu points out that "As both a contributor to climate change ...
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This blog is part of a series on the Winnemem Wintu’s Run4Salmon, a two-week long prayerful event and call to action for public awareness about ...
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Together for H2OPE begins training community leaders in WASH
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WISE Clean Cookstoves Training: An update from our Clean Cookstoves Women Entrepreneurs
On August 15th, the Atan Care Business Enterprise Team (one of the 15 two-person teams participating in WEA and WISE Nigeria’s Women’s Clean Cookstoves Training) ...
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Over the past few years, Nepal has faced troubling weather events and a substantial body of evidence points to climate change as a primary cause. ...
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In the Spring of 2016, Numi Foundation and WEA launched the Together for H2OPE Project, an innovative partnership to ensure clean, safe drinking water to ...
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We're wrapping up our summer intern series and are so excited to introduce you to Fiona! Fiona is a smart, passionate and committed advocate who has ...
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[In the News] A Look at Land Rights for Women Farmers in India
Here at WEA, we recognize that women are the backbone of communities and often play a much more significant role in community care-taking and resource ...
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First Public Preview of Land and Lens Photographs
In March, WEA's Seeds of Resilience Project partner Vanastree, a women farmer's seed-saving collective in Karnataka State, India, held their first photography training for project participants and ...
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The WISE Women’s Clean Cookstoves entrepreneurs have been busy lately! Recently, representatives from each cookstove micro-enterprise team gathered together with our project partner WISE in ...
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Running the Salmon Home: Lifeways and Waters of the Winnemem Wintu
When we first bubbled out of our sacred spring on Mt. Shasta at the time of creation, we were helpless and unable to speak. It ...
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In June, WEA’s Seeds of Resilience project partner, Vanastree, held their 17th Malnad Mela in Sirsi, India. Vanastree has held this festival every year since ...
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We are so excited to welcome another incredible young women to our WEA internship team this Summer! Meet Laura, who is poised to make a ...
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The Kurama Women Enterprise team shares clean cookstove technology with their community
Earlier this spring, WEA and WISE (Women’s Initiative for Sustainable Environment) hosted two week-long training intensives for the women participants of the WISE Women's Clean Cookstoves Project, ...
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U.S. withdraws from Paris Accord, and the impact on women
Yesterday, U.S. government officials announced their decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, an agreement endorsed by almost all countries in the world. This ...
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WEA and WISE’s Clean Cookstoves Training gets national coverage in Nigeria!
This past April, WEA and WISE (Women's Initiative for Sustainable Environment) kicked off a series of two training intensives as part of our joint WISE ...
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Ripples from West Africa, a partner update from Ghana
In 2010, Monica Ayomah was one of the eight local women trainers in the West African Women and Water Trainings in Ghana. We were thrilled to hear from Monica ...
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WEA’s Seeds of Resilience Project kicks off Storytelling Initiative
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At the core of WEA's work is our conviction that to truly and holistically address the issues women face and the issues our environment faces, ...
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WISE Women’s Clean Cookstove Training Retreat Gaining National Attention
The WISE Women's Clean Cookstove Project, partnership between WEA and Women's Initiative for Sustainable Environment (WISE) in Kaduna, Nigeria, just completed its first of two week-long training ...
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Have you heard about The Ripple Academy? For the last 6 months, WEA and United Religions Initiative have worked together to develop a framework and launch this innovative ...
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63 million people in rural India are living without access to clean water.
Here, the day after World Water Day, comes a report on the state of world's water from Water Aid. In its' summary of the report, The ...
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WEA Celebrates World Water Day with Together for H2OPE!
Happy World Water Day! Today, we celebrate all the amazing work grassroots change-makers around the world are bringing forth to ensure more women, more children, more families and ...
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WEA and URI launch The Ripple Academy!
Women's Earth Alliance and United Religions Initiative have joined forces to launch The Ripple Academy, a coordinated training experience to equip leading change-makers with the ...
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Native Nations Rise: Rise with Standing Rock TODAY!
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Indigenous grassroots leaders are calling on allies across the United States and around the world to peacefully March on Washington ...
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This International Women's Day we are celebrating women storytellers around the world who protect our earth and safeguard our histories and traditions. Today kicks off a ...
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Fire, water, seeds, action!
Have you read our Winter WEAvings Newsletter? These quarterly emails are just one way we keep our community up to date on the amazing work our partners ...
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Call for Donations: technology for storytelling
We're excited to share a new opportunity to support women seed savers and forest home gardeners in the Western Ghats of South India! From February ...
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Celebrating the legacy of Vanastree’s Malnad Mela in Bengaluru
Last month, WEA's partner Vanastree held their tenth and final Malnad Mela in Bengaluru, India, closing such a bright chapter of work for this incredible organization. ...
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Women bear the brunt of climate-forced migration
In a recent article, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) stated in 2014, “Environmental migration is a gendered process, but discussions within public, policy, and academia ...
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Assam, India is famous for its high quality black tea and home to Numi Tea’s largest supplier. Yet Assam is one of India’s poorest states, ...
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Photo: Ebe Daems for Mo* Magazine In order to receive development assistance, Tanzania has to give Western agribusiness full freedom and give enclosed protection for ...
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Women Scientists and Environmental Activists Fight Back Against Climate Change Deniers in D.C.
Photo: Julie Dermansky for desmogblog.com A lot is happening this week, but a few things have remained the same for us here at WEA: 1) ...
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Let’s get on board
There is a fire burning, and it's only spreading. This fire is stoked by people around the world who are fiercely committed to ensuring a ...
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WEAre Together at the Women’s March on Washington
On January 21st, hundreds of thousands of people will convene at the Women's March on Washington and around the world. Our team at WEA couldn't ...
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Stewards of Food Culture and Biodiversity: Voices from the Northeast
In her piece for Vikalp Sangam, Rucha Chitnis shines her light on the challenges faced by communities in Northeast India to preserve the region's rich agrobiodiversity and food culture. ...
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Dear Friends, Did you know that women and girls are 14 times more likely to die in a climate-related disaster than men? Natural disasters can ...
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Lighting the Grid
Dear friends, After the U.S. election, our international colleagues at WEA did not hesitate to reach out to us with words of support. They ...
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Dear Friends, Last week was a moment to swim in the depths of a sea of complexities, to touch base and regroup with our colleagues ...
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WISE Women’s Clean Cookstove Project Update: We can’t wait to meet the next clean energy entrepreneurs!
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Did you see our Fall WEAvings Newsletter? It's a great way to stay up to date on the goings on at WEA and with our ...
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WEA’s WISE Clean Cookstoves Project offers a solution to structural barriers in clean renewable energy initiatives
As the #WEAWorldFoodDayGiveaway comes to a close, we'd like to thank everyone who joined us this year to ensure that the brave women entrepreneurs taking ...
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By: Arielle Moinester, WEA Program Strategist Throughout the #WEAWorldFoodDayGiveaway, we've been sharing stories and raising awareness about our Nigeria Women's Clean Cookstoves Project, and the opportunity ...
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Here at WEA, we're extremely lucky that we get a chance to work with an incredible team of intelligent, inspirational interns. Fall is a busy time ...
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Women’s Land Rights Key to Enacting Gender-Responsive International Climate Change Action
According to a recent article from National Geographic discussing the Paris Agreement and its impact on climate change, the international negotiations left a few gaps in ...
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Meet the Interns: Hey, Kate!
One of the best parts of being at WEA is getting the opportunity to spend time with talented, passionate and dedicated interns — like Kate! — who give ...
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Communities Taking a Stand at Standing Rock
Continuing to send thoughts and strength to the encampment of protectors defending land, water, communities and future. Help to spread the word to build support ...
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Photos Show Why The North Dakota Pipeline Is Problematic
A protester is arrested for standing on the outer layer of barricades that separate the protest site from the police line and construction zone on ...
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Nepal quake impact on single women highlights need for equal land rights
By now, we are all aware of the devastating impact the 2015 earthquakes had on Nepal. What may not have been as comprehensively covered in ...
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President Barack Obama Says, “This Is What a Feminist Looks Like”
In June, WEA was honored to have our Leadership Board Member Pandora Thomas represent us at the #StateofWomen Summit in Washington, D.C., bringing our (and your!) voice ...
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Indigenous women in Peru use seed saving and traditional knowledge to combat climate change
Throughout the 10 years of WEA's work, we've seen how women are often those preserving traditional knowledge and shepherding intergenerational knowledge transfer within communities. This ...
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Women, disasters and climate change
As Mary Robinson and Wangari Maathai stated in the Huffington Post in 2010, “The battle to protect the environment is not solely about technological innovation — it ...
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India’s new reforestation law ignores indigenous people
Analysts and experts are stating that a new Indian law — the Compensatory Afforestation, Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) law — aimed at boosting reforestation ...
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Climate Change Effects Lead to Mass Migration in India
Source: Neeta Lal/IPS "Displacement for populations due to erratic and extreme weather, a fallout of climate change, has become a scary reality for millions ...
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Over 1 million people hit by flooding in India’s tea region of Assam
We've just learned of the flooding that has hit the communities and tea gardens in the Assam region of India. This is also the region ...
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Every summer, we get a chance to work with an incredible team of intelligent, inspirational interns, and while they may not be with us for ...
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“Violence on the Land, Violence on our Bodies” report published
Last month, and after two years in the making, WEA and the Native Youth Sexual Health Network officially launched “Violence on the Land, Violence on ...
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Congress Passes the Global Food Security Act of 2016
By: Janice Kim, Programs + Operations Intern Last week, in a celebrated step forward, Congress passed the Global Food Security Act (GFSA) of 2016. With ...
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Report Launch + Week of Action to end Environmental Violence!
After 2 years in the making, WEA and Native Youth Sexual Health Network are ready to launch “Violence on the Land, Violence on our Bodies: ...
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Originally from Colombia, Daniela is currently working on her masters degree in marketing and public relations. A self-proclaimed food lover, tech and social media geek, ...
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Meet our Women Crush Wednesday of the week, Sanjani! A mother of two, family service consultant, and 'House of Cards' fan, Sanjani joined WEA for ...
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WEA envisions a world where women are resourced and communities are thriving, and our team of incredible summer interns play a key role in making ...
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Nigerian Women Risk Their Health to Feed their Families
WEA is honored and proud to share that our Nigeria Project Lead, Olanike Olugboji, was recently featured in TIME Magazine, sharing an important issue that’s ...
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Strengthening the resilience of West Bengali farmers
Soma is from West Bengal, a state that boasts extraordinary biodiversity but is also one of the most ecologically fragile regions in the world. At ...
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Women at the Forefront of Climate Change Adaptation
Photo: Alexandre Laprise; Oxfam.org The ever-changing weather patterns across the globe, but particularly in Latin America, where alternating periods of droughts and floods have gotten ...
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Guatemala Women Standing Against Environmental Violence
Source: Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times A woman in Lote Ocho, Guatemala are filing negligence claims (in Canada) against a Canadian mining company ...
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A Canyon Deserves a Monument for Preservation
In Utah, a tribal coalition of Ute Mountain, Uintah and Ouray Utes, Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni tribes has been formed with a singular goal: To achieve monument ...
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Why Women Have the Solutions to Climate Change
According to Yannick Glemarec, deputy executive direct of United Nations Women, and mirroring what WEA has seen in our own work in South Asia and ...
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Global Greengrants Fund, the leading environmental fund supporting grassroots action on a global scale, and The International Network of Women's Funds have put together a ...
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UN Launches New Forest and Water Program
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has launched a new program focusing on the crucial ...
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Supporting Landless Women Farmers in India
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India has the Most People Without Clean Water
Water Aid, the international charity, released a report this week titled, "Water: At What Cost? The State of the World's Water in 2016" revealing that ...
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Government Cancels Oil Lease near Blackfeet Reservation
The Bureau of Land Management has made a final decision to cancel a 30 year old gas exploration lease held by a Louisiana oil company ...
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The Fight Over Arizona’s San Francisco Peaks
Source: Indian Country Today Media Network The San Francisco Peaks are a sacred to over a dozen native tribes in the southwest. They have also ...
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A Glimpse at Women-Led Movements
Source: Rucha Chitnis, Yes! Magazine Dayamani Barla, the Indian journalist who led an extraordinary movement in an effort to stop ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel ...
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The Aftermath of Booming Oil and Fracking Industries: Acknowledging The Impacts on Women and Indigenous Groups.
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Lack of access to water and toilets has untold effects
According to UNICEF, about 157 million people in the Eastern and Southern Africa region (ESAR) do not have access to a clean and safe water distribution system, ...
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Starting the Year Off With the Malnad Mela
At the end of January 2016, WEA's Planting Seeds of Resilience Project partner Vanastree organized their 9th Malnad Mela. The Mela — featured in the Times of India — provides an ...
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For many women, biodiversity is the cornerstone of their work, their belief systems and their basic survival. Apart from the ecological services that biodiversity provides, ...
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Passing the Knowledge of Seeds and Ancient Farming from Mother to Daughter
Source: Rucha Chitnis, Yes! Magazine In the northeastern mountain state of Meghalaya, is the Khasi tribe, a matrilineal people, where the women own the land, ...
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“As a young child, barefoot women and girls carrying heavy containers of water on their heads, walking long distances under the searing sun were a ...
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Wishing you peace this holiday season
The Peace of Wild Things By Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least ...
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"I’ve got a 25-year-old son named Abe. I’ve got a 20-year-old daughter named Jessie. I would throw myself in front of a bus if it ...
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This inspirational music video from 1 Million Women, calling women from around the world to speak up about climate change and hope, is out-of-this-world amazing! ...
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[In the News] The First Woman Of Women: How Melinda Gates Became The World’s Most Powerful Advocate For Women And Girls
We're loving this look at the life and work of Melinda Gates, co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and a champion ...
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Women are the victims of climate change – and the keys to climate action
Are you keeping an eye on the goings on at COP21 in Paris? We are, and we're especially interested to see if/how a gendered perspective ...
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Association for Women's Rights In Development (AWID) has produced a series of reports on the state of fundraising and money in women's rights organizations . ...
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COP21: Time to Put a Cap on Global Gender Inequality
By: Katie Douglas, WEA Intern “I will ensure this… the climate battle must be fought for, and with, women,” stated Laurent Fabius, the French Minister ...
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Why were the elephants so angry?
By: Katie Douglas, WEA intern In Ulhara, a village in the city of Hazaribagh in Jharkhand, India, a group of women gathered for a cluster meeting ...
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By: Katie Douglas, WEA Intern “We Indigenous peoples of this village never thought that protecting natural resources was our responsibility. Now, we know we are ...
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Historic Treaty Across Continents
Source: Indigenous Rising, indigenousrising.org The Indigenous people of North and South America have come together through a treaty signed by women leaders Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca), Pennie ...
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Small-scale organic farming can feed the world
In our work, we've seen the incredible contributions women farmers continue to make in their communities when small farms and home gardens, and their caretakers, ...
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Weathering the Storms Together: Grassroots Women’s Response to Climate Change
WEA shares our thoughts on women, climate change and more in Earth Island Journal's online edition. "Tomorrow, September 29, is Global Women's Climate Justice Day ...
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Promoting Political, Social and Cultural Rights of Women to Uplift Sustainability
By: Katie Douglas, WEA Intern Aring Standing and her team members sharing the traditional shawl woven by the women Self-Help Groups. Photo: WSDC When Aring ...
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Water Tanks Sustain, Empower Women
Source: Al Jazeera At a training with the Global Women's Water Initiative in East Africa, in 2011, 175 Women received training on how to build ...
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The SDGs: Landmark achievment, or a step backward?
Photo by: UN ...The objectives of Beijing were consistent with a recognition of the deeply structural nature of the inequalities experienced by women. By openly ...
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Recognizing and Uniting Women Leaders in Assam
By: Katie Douglas, WEA Intern All her life Sinumoni Bora has been an advocate on behalf of women’s rights. Sinumoni was born to an impoverished ...
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Protecting Forest Livelihoods and Biodiversity in the Face of Climate Change
By: Katie Douglas, WEA Intern “Each time I plant a tree I realize that I am not only contributing in a small way to sustain ...
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How Climate Change Impacts Women the Most
Photo by: Rucha Chitnis Read more about the differentiated impacts of climate change, and how the UN hopes to address this with it's Sustainable Development ...
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NASA Sheds New Light on India’s Water Crisis
Source: Tribune India A recent National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) report says that the groundwater throughout India has been disappearing, owing to the rate ...
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A Gendered Perspective: Reflections on the MDG and the potential of the SDG
By: Katie Douglas, WEA Intern A woman closes the door behind her and sets off into the early light of dawn. It’s the pre-monsoon season ...
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Everything Connnected to the Land is Connected to our Bodies
The links between land and body have never been more apparent than in recent years, with extractive industries drilling, mining and fracking lands on or ...
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Teaching Girls to Farm in West Bengal
In West Bengal, India, 1 in 5 girls is married by age 15. However, a nonprofit based in Seattle, Landesa, is focused on securing land rights ...
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Sowing Seeds, Supporting Women Farmers in India
By: Katie Douglas, WEA Intern “Seeds have no caste, creed, religion, or gender. They are universal and secular. We nurture this sentiment strongly in our ...
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Pope Francis’ Encyclical: A Message of Hope for the Earth, but Where are the Women?
By: Katie Douglas, WEA Intern “Laudato Si” or “Praised Be to You”, Pope Francis’ recently released environmental encyclical, details how the collective actions of people ...
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We love summer for so many reasons. It's the time of year when seeds planted in the spring blossom, bloom and grow strong, and it's ...
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Building Solidarity Around Resource Management for Women
By: Katie Douglas, WEA Intern For Nanu Ghatani of the Lalitpur District in Nepal, staying silent in the face of injustice and oppression was never ...
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Behind Bolivia’s Ambitious Agriculture Goals
Since Evo Morales – the first Indigenous president to rule a majority Indigenous country – took office in 2006, there have been major changes to the ...
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When Weather Turns Unfavorable, Farmers Lose Hope
Tragic farmer suicides sweep India According to a report by Al Jazeera, "agricultural investment in India is a big gamble. Farmers usually take out bank ...
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A Mother’s Day Call to Protect the Earth
This Sunday is the day of the mother, the day we honor the source of life. As we give thanks for our very existence, for all ...
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Seeking Solar Power Instead of the Grid
For many, electricity is a luxury; it can even be magical. Derrick Terry remembers the first winter when there were lights on at his grandmother's ...
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Women become Entrepreneurs in Ghana through Water
Source: Huffington Post When the nonprofit Saha Global was started by an MIT grad student in 2008, the initial goal was to implement a water ...
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Malnad Mela — A celebration of Seeds
In an event hall in the small village of Sirsi, on the edge of the Western Ghats in the Indian state of Karnataka, more than ...
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A Look into the World of Water in Mali
Source: Tara Todras-Whitehill/ WaterAid The Malian village of Diatoula, Mali, a West African country with 4.9 million people, a third of the population, lacking safe ...
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Sacred Land Threatened by Fracking
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Florence and Fulera bring Improved Access to Drinking Water to Ghanaian Schools
The following article was written by Beth Robertson, Research Fellow at Women's Earth Alliance. This article was published in the Spring 2011 "A Matter of ...
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Ndudi and Elizabeth Improve Sanitation and Community Health in Western Nigeria
Elizabeth at the 2010 GWWI Women and Water Training in Ghana The Global Women’s Water Initiative continues to make ripples of change! 2010 GWWI team ...
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We are Together: Sharing observations from the 55th Session on the Commission on the Status of Women!
UN Women's Commission on the Status of Women By Maame Yelbert-Obeng, WEA's Africa Program Director During the first week of March, I had the opportunity ...
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Indigenous Women and the Way Forward from Fukushima
Photo: Havasupai prayer items at uranium mine near Red Butte in Northern Arizona. “In a [Navajo] creation story, the people were given a choice of ...
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Report from the Field: Africa Program
The Africa Program and the Global Women's Water Initiative are fired up and diligently preparing for our upcoming Women and Water trainings in Uganda. We ...
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Celebrating the 100-year Anniversary of International Women’s Day
Rucha Chitnis, India Program Director, with women farmers in Uttar Pradesh Today marks the 100-year anniversary of International Women’s Day. With ripples of change created ...
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World Rivers Review: The story of Comfort and Georgina’s provision of improved water and sanitation in Ghana
"Water is life. When everyone has access to sources of water that are treated, protected and managed effectively, there will be improvement in the ...
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Mattia and Akofa provide improved access to water in Togo
The Global Women’s Water Initiative 2010 training in Ghana proudly reports the ongoing impact of its graduates. Mrs. Akofa Akakpo and Ms. Sénadé Mattia GUIDIHOUN ...
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EarthDance Film Festival Benefits WEA!
WEA is honored to be the beneficiary of the 8th Annual Short-Attention-Span Environmental Film Festival March 17th at 7 and 9 pm in the David Brower ...
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Nadiatu and Victoria are proof that Global Women's Water Initiative’s (GWWI) lessons and impact reach far beyond the realm of water technology. These women left the ...
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Stories of Hope II: Women Changemakers in the Field
Narmada Devi, Master Trainer with Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group Photo credit: Arshinder Kaur This inspiring story of an Indian woman farmer is a testament to the ...
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Stories of Hope I: Women Changemakers in the Field
Ram Ratti, Master Trainer with the Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG) Photo Credit: Arshinder Kaur This inspiring story of an Indian woman farmer is ...
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Ecocentric Blog Publishes an Exclusive Interview with Melinda Kramer
Melinda Kramer, Founder and Co-Director of Women's Earth Alliance "I believe in the power of everyday people to transform our world. I am committed to ...
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2010 India Progam Kick-Off Event
The WEA team plants the seeds of the India Women and Food Initiative On the evening of December 15, 2010, the Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA) ...
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Join WEA’s Ripple of Giving Campaign!
Dear Friends,
Seasons Greetings!
In celebrating this holiday season, we invite you all to make a ripple that contributes to clean water campaigns in Africa, ...
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Collaborations for the Sacred Earth
Last Wednesday, over 200 people packed the theater and an overflow room at the Brower Center for WEA’s final Weaving the Worlds event of 2010! ...
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Guest Blogger: Julia Butterfly Hill
The photo above features Seane Corn (Off the Mat and Into the World), Melinda Kramer (WEA), Amira Diamond (WEA), Julia Butterfly Hill, and Suzanne ...
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Power Lines
Where do you get your power? Does it emerge from the ground beneath your feet? Do you look to the sky or to the waters ...
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Promoting Energy Justice on the Navajo Nation: Merging the Ancient with the Modern
Women's Earth Alliance, Art/Design Direction Across these long empty roads, amidst red mesa plateaus and small desert towns, I hold my camera in hand as ...
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Be That Voice
By: Joanna Levitt, WEA Advocacy Delegate, Director, International Accountability Project (IAP) There are obvious, striking similarities between the issues being faced on the Navajo Nation ...
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The Wisdom of Our Grandmothers
Stacy Ho, WEA Avocacy DelegatePolicy Associate, Green For All Sometimes I find myself talking about sustainable economic development as the "new thing," the idea that ...
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Promoting Energy Justice on Navajo Nation
WEA Advocacy DelegateThe refrigerator in my hotel room hums and two lamps illuminate my fully charged MacBook as I type these words on the first ...
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WEA Advocates Strategize for Solar Energy on Navajo Mine Land
This week, WEA is hosting a two-day strategy meeting in collaboration with our Sacred Earth Advocacy Initiative project partners from the Navajo Green Economy Coalition, ...
Read More Raising Our Voices: Women farmers share their accounts
A heart to heart conversation with women farmers in the desert state of Rajasthan, who share their first-hand experiences with climate change and water issues ...
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Women Farmers, Drought & Resilience
Rucha and I visited block Chaksu in Jaipur district the same afternoon and met some of the most inspiring women farmers who are served by ...
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Yes! Women are Farmers!
A blog post by WEA's India Director, Rucha Chitnis “Mahila hi kisaan hai! Wohi bharat ki shaan hai,” chant a group of rural women assembled ...
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Global Sol Festival
We're so excited about Global Sol this weekend, featuring Arrested Development, Hamsa Lila, Michael Kang and others, all benefitting WEA. Check out the posting in ...
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WEA advocates take a stand for water and sacred sites
This evening, the Flagstaff City Council's Water Commission will hold a public hearing to decide whether to sell municipal drinking water to Arizona Snowbowl, ...
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We Are Together: WEA’s 2010 Gala
"I had to take a second and recognize your team and your admiring supporters for an amazing program last night. Not only am I ...
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In the blogosphere: Simple Tools, Big Impact
The facilitator for the 2010 West African Women and Water Training, Maame Yelbert-Obeng, has written a beautiful piece about that training for the Global Fund ...
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In the blogosphere: WEA on Care2
Read WEA's Call for Action on Mother’s Day, which was posted on Care2. Read it online here. And we invite you to join our mailing ...
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The following article has been written by Carolyn Raffensperger, Executive Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network. What is sacred? What does the law ...
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‘We are in the business of door opening, and it is really exciting.’
Below is the lively conversation among WEA Co-Directors, Amira and Melinda. Pass this along to others for a dose of inspiration! Britt Bravo, a blogger ...
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The Price of Gold
The following article has been written by Sarah Diefendorf, Executive Director of the Environmental Finance Center at Dominican University and member of the Women’s Earth ...
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How do we defend sacred places?
The WEA Advocacy Delegation traveled from Elko, NV to Flagstaff, AZ. We spent a remarkable and deeply moving day with Carrie Dann, Western Shoshone elder ...
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Protecting the San Francisco Peaks
On the outskirts of Flagstaff, Arizona lies a sacred mountain called the San Francisco Peaks. It is a place of profound spiritual significance to Dine, ...
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Defending Sacred Places, Day One: Coming Together
The journey has begun! Five incredible women stepped off the plane this morning in Elko, Nevada, welcomed by a blue sky, expansive landscape and the ...
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Giveaway! Farmer Jane by Temra Costa
We are so thrilled to share with you an interview with Temra Costa and a blog celebration of her new book, Farmer Jane. Temra is ...
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Vote for Women’s Earth Alliance
We have joined eBay’s Tournament for the Environment and would love your vote! Check it out here. The tournament cash pool has been seeded with ...
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Young Women Lead the Way to Green Economic Development on the Navajo Nation
Women Earth Alliance’s Caitlin Sislin wrote a piece about the Navajo Nation on The WIP. She writes, “Thanks to a diverse array of activist leaders ...
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Sacred Sites Advocacy Delegation begins Sunday
The first 2010 Women’s Earth Alliance Advocacy Delegation, Defending Sacred Places in the Southwest, begins on Sunday in Elko, NV. Five dynamic, highly-skilled and experienced ...
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Gala! Introducing the 2010 Host Committee
These are some of the many shoulders we stand on and minds we depend on. The following people will serve as the Host Committee for ...
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Women and Land celebrates 1st anniversary
Happy (almost) Birthday! The Sacred Earth Advocacy Network, a project of WEA’s Women and Land Initiative, will celebrate its first birthday this June! Over the ...
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2010 West African Women & Water Training Program from Unseen Pictures on Vimeo.
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The Black Mesa Mine Mess
Women Earth Alliance’s Caitlin Sislin has written on High Country News about the current opportunity for comment regarding the Peabody Western Coal Company’s water permit ...
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Caitlin and WEA in the news
Women Earth Alliance’s Advocacy Director Caitlin Sislin was interviewed by VolunTourism, an organization that promotes volunteering around the world. In it she says, “Collaboration with ...
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One of many extraordinary women
The women involved in Women Earth Alliance are extraordinary women. Olanike Olugboji, a participant in the Global Women's Water Initiative's 2008 African Women and Water ...
Read More Solutions for Community Resilience
2009 was a banner year for Women’s Earth Alliance, there’s no doubt about it. But we knew that the wave of momentum wasn’t going to ...
Read More Report from the West African Women and Water Training
Preparation Days-Global Women’s Water Initiative West African Women and Water Training By Mariah Maggio The latest adventure of GWWI’s Women and Water Training program in ...
Read More On being an environmental lawyer: storytelling with a purpose
(Cross-posted from the Science and Environmental Health Network's blog) As a young environmental attorney, I am fortunate to count Carolyn Raffensperger as one of my ...
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We did it! 2009 in review
Dear friends, You are amazing. Thanks to you, 2009 was a banner year for Women’s Earth Alliance. With a week left in 2009, we had ...
Read More Victory for Earth and Community in the Navajo Nation
This week, an administrative law judge for the Department of Interior issued an historic decision revoking Peabody Coal Company's permit for its Black Mesa and ...
Read More We are over half way there! Last month we shared that a very generous donor has offered to match every dollar donated to Women’s Earth ...
Read More Work we believe in (A letter from Paul Hawken and Julia Butterfly Hill)
Dear Friends, As you know, Women's Earth Alliance has a $100,000 match on the table. This morning Amira and Melinda told us that they are ...
Read More Feed two birds with one seed this season
We shared with you here the exciting news about a very generous donor’s offer to Women’s Earth Alliance. Every donation to Women’s Earth Alliance before ...
Read More WEA Partners in the News
We do not do our work alone. Key to WEA’s strategy is collaboration. Everywhere we go, whether it be Africa, India or the sacred lands ...
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Calling African Women for Unique Opportunity
Along with our partner organizations we are seeking applicants for the Global Women’s Water Initiative (GWWI) 2010 West Africa Program. This is a unique opportunity ...
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Give the Gift of Sustainable Farming
Instead of giving something that won’t fit… Give the gift of heirloom seeds, organic farming techniques, and business skills so that women can grow ...
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Check out our interview on KPFA from this morning! Today was the final installment of Claire Cummings’ "Countdown to Copenhagen" series and focused on women, ...
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Give the Gift of Partnership
Instead of going to the mall… Give the gift of partnership, information sharing, and collaboration all in the name of environmental justice. Give $50 or ...
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Give the Gift of a Clean Water
Instead of giving more stuff with more packaging… Give the gift of clean water, a way to earn money, and an empowered community. Give $50 ...
Read More Big news : A $100,000 match opportunity!
We have some very exciting news to share! This season a generous anonymous donor gave WEA an incredible opportunity: for every dollar donated to Women's ...
Read More Report Back: Climate Justice in Copenhagen Conference Call
Thanks to everyone who joined us for an excellent conference call discussion this morning, on Climate Change in Copenhagen. The Conference Call Series of WEA’s ...
Read More Climate change’s affect on poor women
A new report out by the United Nations Population Fund has warned that women in developing countries will be the most vulnerable to climate change. ...
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Upcoming WEA event: Climate Justice in Copenhagen
Women's Earth Alliance presents the next call in the WEAving the Worlds Conference Call Series: Climate Justice in Copenhagen : What's at Stake for Indigenous ...
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Event Series Finale a Huge Success
WOW! Tuesday’s event hosted with CommuniTree and Art in Action was such a special gathering of friends, colleagues, partners, family, and folks who were new ...
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What does ‘land’ mean to you?
From World Pulse: Does it evoke images of the dusty streets you walked down as a child or memories of the sacred land you grew ...
Read More Why Women’s Rights Matter to Our Food
Katherine Gustafson wrote a beautiful call to action on change.org. She quoted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: "We have seen again and again . . ...
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From The Fields : From seed to root
By Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond We have just returned from our India Women and Agriculture Learning Exchange. This rich and informative tour through Northern ...
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Join us! Joanna Macy and more on Tues, 11/10/09
We've just returned from our 10 day journey through Northern India where we launched our Women and Agriculture Initiative (we blogged about it – take ...
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From The Fields : Spice Girls and Water Harvesting Women: A Gandhian Legacy
By Blue Baldwin In the remote reaches of the Thar Desert, where the bustle and noise of Rajasthan's blue hued city of Jodhpur fades ...
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From The Fields : Which gulab jamun was your favorite?
By Deepa Iyres Cecoedecon – sounds mysterious – is it a recently discovered dinosaur, the Latin name of an indigenous seed, an exotic Indian dish ...
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From The Fields : “Forget not the earth delights to feel your bare feet”
By Navina Khanna “and forget not the earth delights to feel your bare feet, and the winds long to play with your hair.” —Kahlil Gibran. ...
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From The Fields : Intrigued and well-fed in Punjab
By Rucha Chitnis We wake up in Ludhiana. View Larger Map It's day 3 of WEA's India Women and Agriculture Initiative. We are 14 women, ...
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From The Fields : WEA and Satya-Jyoti Celebrate 350!
By Corinne Almquist We rose before dawn this morning to greet one of the most exciting days of the year: the 350 International Day of ...
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From The Fields : 350 in Rajasthan, India
Today the Women and Agriculture Delegation participated in a worldwide event calling for strong action and bold leadership on the climate crisis. More than 5,200 ...
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From The Fields : Paapad, a Temple and Bees
By Angela Sevin Today was a full, full day! Full of information, appreciations, problems, solutions, puzzles, questions, hopes and dreams. From a ‘mom and pop’ ...
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From The Fields : Touch down
By Temra Costa Even before the plane touches down, you can smell Delhi. It’s hard to describe – ammonia, cars, 17 million people breathing, half ...
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Today the WEA team and the Delegates are arriving and settling into their hotel in Delhi. They are about 12 hours ahead of California time ...
Read More Your invitation to join us From The Fields
This Sunday, a group of 13 women delegates will travel to Delhi, India to learn, connect, share and strategize with Indian women who are leading ...
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Coming Up from the Roots: another full house!
Last night more than 75 people gathered for the second of three events in WEA's Fall Speaker Series Coming Up from the Roots. It was ...
Read More WEAving Words
"If we can make small-holder farming more productive and more profitable, we can have a massive impact on hunger, and nutrition, and poverty." —Bill Gates ...
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"As indigenous people we’re still fighting for protection, for cultural survival, fighting to protect our sacred and holy places. Although it has always been in ...
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The time is now
It's an exciting time to be doing what we're doing here at Women's Earth Alliance. Economists, world leaders, and policy experts alike are beginning to ...
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"... I have presented these arguments for a purpose. To illustrate that that these are very common issues for women, not only for Indigenous women, ...
Read More WEAving the Worlds Call Series: Green Jobs
On September 29 we held our first conference call in our Fall 2009 WEAving the Worlds Call Series: The Navajo Green Jobs Victory and the ...
Read More A little blogging history
This isn't WEA's first blogging experience. In September 2008, Women’s Earth Alliance convened a delegation of public interest women attorneys from across the United States ...
Read More Call for nominations! West African women leaders
We are looking for West African women leaders who are working for water security, health, and environmental sustainability in their communities. The Global Women’s Water ...
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70+ gathered for Coming up from the Roots event
Last night we held the first of three events as part of our Up From The Roots, Weaving the Worlds speaker series. And it was ...
Read More Travel With a Purpose: 2010 Advocacy Delegations
Calling all women advocates with a passion for environmental justice! Women attorneys, advocates, law students and members of the legal profession are invited to join ...
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Arsenic Contamination: Water Assessment in Assam, India
"Cost-effective, user friendly technologies providing pure water are required to counter the serious health hazards due to consumption of As and/or Fe-contaminated water." Map of ...
Read More Philippines Struggle to Supply Most Basic of Needs
"The failure to ensure safe water supply and sanitation and the rapidity with which we degrade the environment through air and water pollutants greatly threatens ...
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