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Depend on Women to Keep the Momentum Rolling on Global Warming
Women are bringing the word to negotiators at the climate change conference in Copenhagen that those closest to the damaging effects of global warming point the way toward lessening the risks to the most vulnerable among us.
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A Few Acres and a Cow (or Two): Up from Poverty in East Africa
Backed by Gates Foundation funding, women dairy farmers in Uganda are working collectively to care for their families, their livestock, their crops and the earth.
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Dancing on the Side in Senegal
The author celebrated her 73rd birthday in a way she could hardly have imagined—surrounded by women who would now be able to draw water year-round in their own village.
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Intervale Green Apartments: Green, Affordable—and for Low-Income Women
In a Bronx, New York, neighborhood that once epitomized urban decay, the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation has created apartments that conserve energy, cost less to operate than conventional housing, and are beautiful and healthy places to live. It took the vision of a woman who refused to be discouraged.
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Battling to Rebuild New Orleans
For her Frontline documentary, airing Tuesday evening on PBS stations, the author documented the determination of a family that refused to give up on their city. The struggle remains daunting for th...
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A Quiet Revolution in the Developing World
The Gates Foundation has found an experienced adviser who knows as much as anyone about the importance of focusing on women to increase agricultural production in those countries where hungry people need it most. And her gender-sensitive policy does not end with the farmers.
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Making Women Farmers "Visible" As They Feed Nations
Meena Bilgi always knows where to start. A half hour after her request the village leader of Boripitha, an underdeveloped community of 1,300 in the Indian state of Gujarat, had summoned 15 to 18 men and boys.
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Climate Change is a Human Rights Challenge
At the recent G8 Summit, the leaders of the world’s economic superpowers met and agreed that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must be reduced to mitigate climate change. Their “target” was ambiguous, ...
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July 09, 2008 Environment,
International
When the Bush Becomes a "Desert Shrub"
“It doesn’t rain here the way it used to.” That was a Senegalese woman’s observation, included in a new report on climate change released by the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO).
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Lucy Lippard on Eco Art and Climate Change
Lucy Lippard is curator of Weather Report: Art and Climate Change, her first major exhibition in 20 years. The internationally renowned cultural and art critic, feminist and political activist has w...
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Climate Change—Combatants at Work
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize, shared between Al Gore and the UN’s climate science panel, is a victory for environmentalism and science. It underscores the gravity of global warming and leaves no sp...
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August 16, 2007 | Regina Cornwell |
Environment
What Price Earth?
How do we attach a value to the priceless? As veteran environmentalist Paula DiPerna has written, in approaching the issue of climate change, "the elemental task is to assign measurable value, while...
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The Sun as Sous Chef—Solar Cooking in Kenya
With concern over climate change, the sun promises a clean and renewable energy source, which those of us in rich countries often associate with expensive photovoltaic panels for generating electric...
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Brenda's Story
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Houma women feel they must be the strong ones. I had to tell people they had a right to feel bad. —Brenda Dardar Robichaux, principal chief of the United Houma Nation and founder of the Un...
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New Study Explores the Aftermath for Women
Some women displaced by Hurricane Katrina have had to choose between finding basic shelter and guarding their personal safety.
Of the estimated 142,000 New Orleans apartments or houses destroyed b...
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Women Emerge as Powerful Advocates at UN Environment Conference
This month nearly 2,000 government delegates and representatives from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) met in New York for the UN Fifteenth Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-15). After...
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April 12, 2007 | Regina Cornwell |
Environment
More Women Leaders—For the Sake of the Earth
Kathleen Rogers, the clear, straight-talking, passionate head of the Earth Day Network (EDN), was emphatic: "No, there aren’t enough women in environmental leadership roles." Citing our global clima...
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Stepping It Up, Against Global Warming
Because of her love of large white artic animals and fear for their future, a woman will host a rally April 15 at the Polar Bear Exhibit at the Indianapolis Zoo. In Tucson, three young women have pl...
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February 05, 2007 | Tamara Kreinin |
Environment
Una’s Story
The home is a way to move a trapped segment of the population out of poverty. The home is a way to move ahead post-Katrina. —Una Anderson
Days after Una Anderson and her husband evacuated safely t...
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October 30, 2006 | Tamara Kreinin |
Environment
Sharon's Story
People are trying to take your community while you are sleeping. -Sharon Hanshaw
Sharon Hanshaw was out of town when Hurricane Katrina hit her lifelong home of Biloxi, Mississippi. She returned t...
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August 28, 2006 | Lori Luechtefeld |
Environment
“An Inconvenient Truth”—Seizing the Moment
Global warming is—pardon the expression—hotter than ever.
Recent developments, from rising oil prices to extreme weather patterns and rampant natural disaster, have raised reluctant awareness in t...