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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 [...]

Wiser.org Editor Sil tells us about how food cooperatives are creating more sustainable communities and benefiting the environment. Join this growing global movement and check out a co-op near you! By Sil Gabriell A food cooperative or food co-op is a food distribution outlet organized as a cooperative. This means the decisions regarding the production [...]

Wiser.org is celebrating an important milestone as it sees its community surpassing 75,000 members. This niche social network, which can be likened to a sort of green LinkedIn, has become a place for kinship-building among 10s of 1,000s of activists, social change organizations, and not-for-profits working on some of the planet’s most pressing issues. Members [...]

Women’s Earth Alliance partners with community-based organizations globally to uplift local solutions to issues of water, food, land, and climate change by providing women with trainings, resources, and advocacy support. March 8 is International Women’s Day, and it is fitting that we take this opportunity to focus on women’s leadership. In 2013, Women’s Earth Alliance [...]

In honor of International Women’s Day, Wiser.org member Maryanne introduces us to an inspirational woman whose family has cultivated a wonderful legacy in Maryanne’s childhood village of Githabai in Nyandarua County, Kenya. By Maryanne Muriuki I search for Facebook groups that center within the vicinity of the village where I grew up, Githabai … Just [...]

With the capability to create so many incredible technologies for consumers (smartphones, interactive TV, apps, etc.), the world needs the same brilliant minds creating low tech solutions for those lacking access to basic needs, such as clean water, healthcare, housing and energy resources. That is why the Siemens Stiftung launched the “empowering people.Award” competition at [...]