Happy Earth Day, everyone!This day is a perfect day for feminists everywhere to reflect on the connections between our everyday lives, climate change, and conservation.
As you may know, FMF recently launched our new toolkit on Women and Water. Women throughout the world, women and girls are often responsible for many of the water-related activities in their households. This places them in a critical space. Because of these water-related roles, women are disproportionately impacted by water-borne disease, water pollution, scarcity, privatization, and other implications of irresponsible attitudes toward our climate and our earth. On the other hand, this space permits them a source of power to change those attitudes - armed with information, they can better understand how their actions affect water cleanliness, quality, consumption, health and hygiene.
This Earth Day, we encourage you all to make those connections between women and the environment! Let us know what you're planning or if you want to brainstorm - we love to hear your ideas. Again, be sure to look up the info on the new Women and Climate Change Campaign on our website!
Finally, I'll end with some fun/informative earth-day links:
US Environmental Protection Agency
Sierra Club
Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
National Geographic's Earth Day Green Guide for Everyday Living
Earth Day Network
EarthDay.gov Site
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