Good News for Earth Day: Women Instrumental In Fighting Climate Change

What is the connection between greenhouse gas emissions and gender inequality? Women. A new report released in late March says women are invaluable when it comes to impacting climate change. Sociologists ...Read More

Frances Moore Lappe’s Grand Vision: Treat Markets as Ecosystems

The latest book from environmentalist Frances Moore Lappé–author of the bestselling Diet for a Small Planet–could not have been published at a better time. As Occupy protests across the ...Read More

Women Fight to Save Appalachia’s Last Mountain

A women’s movement is brewing in America’s heartland, and it’s not about the glass ceiling, equal pay or sexual harassment. It’s about the survival of local communities, the health of their ...Read More

Women Demand Environmental Justice from Chevron

Women traversed the globe from as far as Ecuador, Nigeria, Colombia and Indonesia to make their voices heard today at Chevron’s annual shareholder’s meeting in California. In contrast ...Read More

Can Ecofeminist Activism Save the Planet?

Is environmentalism a feminist issue? Well, it’s hard to argue with the fact that climate change disproportionately affects poor women and children, especially in the Global South. Also, pollution ...Read More

Women and the Gulf Oil Spill, One Year Later

One year ago today, 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana, two explosions rocked the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which burst into flames and sent its terrified workers scattering for safety in the ...Read More

A Feminist Look at a Bug’s Life

The bees are all women, Maids and the long royal lady. They have got rid of the men, The blunt, clumsy stumblers, the boors. –an excerpt from “Wintering,” by Sylvia Plath As it gets ...Read More

Hearing Women’s Voices at the Cancun Climate Conference

In hopes of picking up where the failed 2009 Copenhagen climate conference left off, international delegates have convened in Cancun, Mexico to work on a global plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions. ...Read More

Great Old Broads Take on Washington

It’s not every day that a handful of women in their sixties play a game using leaf blowers and a large yellow ball on the National Mall in Washington. But such antics are par for the course ...Read More

SNEAK PEEK: The Women Who Won’t Abandon the Gulf

The government says that the millions of barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf are “dissipating.” But environmentalists warn about long-term effects. Does the “Mission Accomplished” ...Read More

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