As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the author describes how women have worked to break through the seemingly impervious bureaucracy at the UN to finally impress on world leaders that saving the earth depends on guaranteeing women equal rights and status.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In the midst of a global food crisis, advocates are trying to convince the world that women farmers are an essential part of the solution. Women are responsible for over half of the world’s food pro...
“I’ve been trying to free myself of Katrina’s grasp... With what I’ve gone through I should be just stark raving mad by now, but I’m able to go on.” These are the words of Herreast Harrison, Upper N...
Women in the Middle East working for women’s rights and peace are subjects all but invisible in the U.S. media. In her book, Unveiled: How an American Woman Found Her Way Through Politics, Love and ...
Imagine New York City with an eight-lane highway running through the heart of SoHo, Little Italy and the Lower East Side? Or 14 lively tree-lined blocks of the West Village under the wrecking ball t...
“Global security” tends to conjure up “fighting terrorism,” conditioned as we are by the media and government. But last fall, the International Women Leaders Global Security Summit (New York City, N...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In the 1960s, as a cultivated young woman early in her art career, Mierle Laderman Ukeles learned an important lesson in cultural disconnection. Once she became pregnant and then a mother she found ...
España [f.] nosotras, las ciudades (Spain [f.], We, the Cities) is an exuberant celebration of Spain’s cities through the voices of her women. It is Spain’s contribution to Venice’s 10th Internation...