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June: How Do Women Save the Earth?

Why Women Care About the Environment?

An Introduction to this Month’s Focus "How Do Women Save the Earth?"

This month's podcast: "Sibongile Musuku van Damme: Who Knows the Earth Best?" Curator Masum Momaya speaks with a South African environmental activist on how gender, culture and race relate to her country's environmental challenges.

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-- Women's health is uniquely affected by environmental toxins. Explore how a work of art is educating U.S. women about environmental links to Breast Cancer.

-- Women suffer most in natural disasters. Find out why; as well as how women in Nicaragua are transforming themselves from victims to leaders.

-- Women provide food for their families and communities. Discover one group of Brazilian women who help protect their families' food supply by growing their hair.

-- Women are responsible for fetching water; some walk long distances each day to bring home this precious resource. At least the water is free - until recently. Who owns water? is a question being heard more and more today.

-- Women gather wood to fuel the family's fires. But after a century of deforestation, Kenya's forests were stripped bare. Discover how one woman's unique solution -- teaching rural women to plant trees -- grew into a worldwide movement for peace.

-- Women are farmers, who carefully breed their crops season after season. One seed can equal thousands of years of women's work. But big business now wants to patent seeds, and in India, saving seeds has become an illegal act. Discover how women are fighting back.

-- Women are often left out of environmental decision-making, development and planning. One South African environmentalist promotes women's wisdom to conserve her country's land, and its indigenous cultures. Listen to her interview in this month's podcast.

-- Women outnumber men in Green Parties around the world. Find out what it is about going Green that so appeals to women, from one MP in Finland.

-- Women are some of the most provocative and effective environmental activists. Meet four remarkable women who fight for the earth around the world.





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