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Photo credit: Dr. Mark Kimura With International Day for Biodiversity yesterday and World Environment Day coming up on June 5th, it’s fitting that this week’s featured woman is a passionate advocate for animals and the environment. Megan Lamson is a marine biologist and conservationist who works with Hawai‘i Wildlife Fund to coordinate coastal marine debris [...]

Tags: coastline, conservation, Hawai'i Wildlife Fund, International Day for Biodiversity, marine debris, Megan Lamson, plastic, world environment day

By Suzanne York (6degreesofpopulation.org) The news of late out of Australia has not been the most encouraging. For starters, the country continues to mine coal at a rapid pace, upping its exports of the dirty fuel. It is the world’s biggest coal exporter. A recent report found that if the expected expansions of Australia’s coal [...]

Tags: australia, climate change, coal mining, endangered species, koalas, Population growth

By Suzanne York (6degreesofpopulation.org) With over 7 billion people on the planet, demand for water for household, agricultural, and industrial use is increasing even faster than population growth. Many areas, such as the southwestern US and northern Mexico, are already experiencing competing demands on water in a region heavily reliant on this most precious of natural [...]

Tags: Colorado River, conservation, environment, Population growth, suzanne york, Water, water scarcity

Meet Fidelis Balakasi, Wiser.org member and a coordinator for the WiserSouthernAfrica group! He is the Founder and Technical Advisor of uMunthu Centre for Environment and Education (UCEE), a not-for-profit based in Malawi that addresses and promotes the stewardship of the environment using uMunthu philosophy. uMunthu (also known as Ubuntu) focuses on people’s allegiances and relations with each [...]

Tags: Fidelis Balakasi, Malawi, uMunthu, uMunthu Centre for Environment and Education

Candia Lea Cole is an artist, poet, eco-visionary and eco-lifestyle educator, as well as a whole foods cookbook author specializing in eco-sustainable cuisine. She founded a business called Eco-Learning Legacies that provides educational resources to people who want to live eco-intelligently and become feminine eco-leaders in their homes and communities. She explains, “My work highlights [...]

Tags: Candia Lea Cole, Eco-Learning Legacies, eco-lifestyle, ecofeminism, education, preventative healthcare, whole foods

All around the world, members of the Transition movement are taking up the call to combat climate change and free their communities from oil dependency. Nowhere is this more apparent than on Wiser.org, which hosts dozens of groups created by Transitioners all around the world who use the platform to coordinate their efforts. This spring, [...]

Tags: 2013 Transition Challenge, climate change, community, energy, food, peak oil, Transition US, Water

With International Permaculture Day coming up on May 5th, it is only fitting that our next Woman of the Week is an expert in the field! Meet Stella Strega, a permaculture designer and teacher, activist, and Wiser.org member who works with Nodo Espiral, a permaculture academy. “I do everything I do because I decided at [...]

Tags: EcoNova Conferences, EcoVillage, feminism, La Palma, permaculture, Stella Strega, sustainability

Photo credit: Saad Faruque By Laura Ross-Perry This year, Earth Day celebrated it’s 43rd anniversary on April 22nd. Across the globe, people gathered to pay respect to the planet, discuss the current state of the earth, and talk about ways in which we can improve how we treat it in order to also improve the [...]

Tags: Bangladesh, biodiversity, cameroon, climate change, earth day, environment, farming, fire safety, Ghana, healing, india, WiserLocal