Category: Spotlights

My women and climate “aha” moment

By Trish Tierney, a member of the Global Giving Network steering committee   A few weeks ago, a friend sent me a link to a Fast Company article titled “The Unique Challenges of Being a Middle-Aged Woman Entrepreneur.” It took me several long minutes to realize that she was sending it to me because I […]

Restoring Fresh Water and People’s Health in Micronesia

A thick blanket of rainforest covers the Micronesian island of Pohnpei. Waterfalls pour over black basalt mountains. Though rivers seem plentiful, waterborne diseases have plagued people in the village of Kepirohi in southern Pohnpei. The problems started in the 1960s, when a religious trade school diverted its septic system into a local river. This contaminated […]

A victory for Miskito stewards of the forest

The indigenous Miskito people live amongst lush rainforests along the Caribbean Coast in Honduras. After a 40-year struggle, they won title to their ancestral land in 2013.

Shell oil to pay $84M for pollution in the Niger Delta

Shell has agreed to pay $84 million for two oil spills in the Niger Delta community of Bodo. A step in the right direction or a paltry sum in comparison with the devastation big oil is wreaking? It’s both.

To the Green Climate Fund: “Grassroots women need more resources”

The co-hosts of the Summit on Women and Climate call on the Green Climate Fund to take action and extend support to women-led solutions to climate change in advance of COP 21.

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