Don’t ignore half of humanity in the climate-change debate
While everyone’s talking about carbon credits and technological solutions to climate change, no one’s talking about the people who are going to be affected most: women.
View ArticleNicaragua: Farmers express thoughts on rural development through video
The Alzar las Voces (Raise the Voices) project in Nicaragua brings farmers in rural communities the possibility to speak out through video.
View ArticleLet the champions be champions
Firstly, we simply cannot exclude such a large group of people, if we are serious in our ambitions to turn the tide. Not tapping into the resource of young people is foolish. Secondly, young people...
View ArticleGlobal warming and birth control
We cannot maintain the level of consumption of resources we have today with 6, 7 or 8 billion people. Sooner or later we will have to make the difficult choice between reducing the population or our...
View ArticleWomen’s role in climate change
It is crucial that women's voices are included in the dialogue on climate change- in multiple ways. And it is equally important that women in low-income countries are made part of the global discourse.
View ArticleGreenpeace unfriends Facebook, and social media takes on…social media
When Facebook veered away from Environmental Sustainability (MDG7), Greenpeace voiced their concern with a strategy that used Facebook as a platform for change at Facebook. Take a look at how they...
View ArticleAfrica’s hunger hardships spur biotech debate
This post was commissioned as part of a Pulitzer Center/Global Voices Online series on Food Insecurity that draw on multimedia reporting featured on the Pulitzer Gateway to Food Insecurity. Share your...
View ArticleWater rights for women and children are essential to the MDGs
About one billion people are currently living without one of the most basic human rights, the right to access clean and safe drinking water. This inequity is not just tragic, but is also undermining...
View ArticleA gender crisis, a global opportunity
You may be woman, but I can’t hear you roar. In fact, I can’t hear you at all. Maybe it is because you don’t really have time. No one can blame you. But maybe if you, and the hundreds of millions of...
View ArticleEcofeminism and the right to water
While the right to water and the right of water may seem to be the same thing to many people, the two are extremely different. I recently had the opportunity to attend a conference on the right to...
View Article“Thirsty for Change” fashion show raises awareness about Israeli water...
It takes 400 gallons of water to grow enough cotton for an ordinary t-shirt. A pair of jeans? That’s 1,800 gallons. And we all know that while some women spend 6 hours every day to get drinking water,...
View ArticleWorld Contraception Day is For Women’s Rights, But It’s For the Environment, Too
By: Rachel Cernansky, blogger at Treehugger.com and winner of the Women Bloggers Deliver contest; excerpted from the original post at Treehugger.com The connection between increased access to family...
View Article#7Billion: Topic of the Day – Youth and Innovation
What are some ways that youth can use innovation to create a better world for 7 billion?
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