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For Green Building Week: How Women Can Fight Climate Change, Starting at Home

By Terri Wills ● Feminism & Sustainability ● September 24, 2018

Women are more likely to be affected by climate change than men, and up to 80% of those displaced by climate change are women.

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Advancing Net Zero: Why Green Building is Crucial in the Fight Against Climate Change

By Terri Wills & Romilly Madew ● Feminism & Sustainability ● June 7, 2018

The effects of climate-related events are shifting the environment, altering communities and changing lives; especially, and disproportionately, those of women.

Celebrating Diversity on Africa Day: What Green Building Means for African Communities

By Jane Afrane ● Commentary ● May 25, 2018

While climate change is a global problem, African countries are likely to feel the effects most acutely and women are the most vulnerable of all, as a result of their dependence on the natural resources that are threatened by climate change.

Women Saving the World: Five Females to Celebrate on Earth Day

By Terri Wills ● Feminism & Sustainability ● April 19, 2018

As primary providers of food and fuel, women are most likely to notice the signs of climate change and to be the first to feel its effects.

African Women Key to Ambitious, but Unfunded, Global Energy Shift

By ALANA ESPOSITO ● Politics ● March 9, 2016

It’s time to shift billions of people onto modern energy sources in ways that help women and the planet. That’s the mantra. But the U.N.’s latest development plan lacks any legally binding mechanism to create flows of finance.

Iceland Tops New Environment and Gender Scorecard

By Juhie Bhatia ● Health & Science ● November 16, 2013

The scoring system measures 72 countries on such things as rates of anemia, access to agricultural land and women in policymaking positions. The United States has the lowest rates of anemia, but factors such as its failure to ratify CEDAW pushed it to 14th place.

How 9 Countries Score on Women’s Rights and the Environment

By Juhie Bhatia ● Health & Science ● November 16, 2013

The Environment and Gender Index (EGI) monitors women’s empowerment and gender equality in the environmental arena in 72 countries. This photo gallery shows how nine countries ranked.

Two Female CEOs Revamp for Climate Change

By Paula DiPerna ● Commentary ● July 16, 2013

These businesswomen don’t have environmental backgrounds, but they know it’s time to tailor their business practices to extreme global weather patterns. The fashion designer always paid attention to the weather but now she watches it with an eye to fabric prices.

Film Personalizes Climate ‘Weathering’ on Women

By Danielle Zielinski ● Health & Science ● September 22, 2011

The documentary “Weathering Change,” released today, shows how climate change is disproportionately impacting women. In one Nepali woman’s village, the forest has been depleted and only a quarter of the inhabitants have enough to eat.

Biodiversity Projects Start to Benefit Rural Women

By Anna Louie Sussman ● Health & Science ● December 23, 2010

Rural women in remote areas are often left out of family planning programs aimed at large population centers. Some biodiversity wildlife programs are showing how to step into the breach.