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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Barbara Olivi is the founder of the NGO Il Sorriso dei miei Bimbi as well as an activist in children’s education and empowerment in the Rocinha favela of Rio de Janeiro. She was nominated by Wiser.org’s Emma De Masi, who had the opportunity to work with Barbara in Brazil. By Emma De Masi & Barbara [...]

Listening to What Women Want “We need to go to developing countries and work with the women there and learn what best practices are for them and what barriers there are for women to get an education and more,” says Suzanne York, who works as a writer for the Institute for Population Studies and contributes [...]

Adib is a Wiser.org Editor and WiserLocal organizer from Bangladesh. On Earth Day last year, he founded the first online green magazine in Bangladesh – GreenMagz. Adib shares how his dream of launching an environmental magazine came to life. By Adib Khondoker Ratul “In Bangladesh, I wasn’t able to find any platform where environmental professionals [...]

We are inaugurating our new blog series, Wiser’s Women of the Week, with the story of an extraordinary woman from Kenya named Halima. She was nominated by her friend Maryanne, a member of Wiser.org, who also wrote this article. Maryanne is currently a university student studying disaster management and humanitarian assistance. By Maryanne Muriuki When [...]

  Meet Emma De Masi, Wiser.org’s new Community Manager! Originally from Italy, Emma has worked in Europe and Brazil, and she comes to Wiser.org with a wealth of experience in both the corporate and nonprofit worlds. She sat down with us for an interview about her most recent experience working in the Rocinha favela of [...]