Feminist Friday: 2021 Earth Day + Climate Round-Up

Happy Earth Week! Here are a few of the many great stories highlighting the climate impacts and solutions led by women advocates around the world.

Who CAREs? A Conversation on Feminist Climate Action

With leaders from Women’s Earth Alliance and Sierra Club’s Grassroots Women’s Leaders Accelerator (WATCH)

For millennia, women have been the bedrock of the “care economy” — nurturing our families, laboring to better our societies, and stewarding the Earth and its precious resources. As the climate emergency intensifies, so does the burden on our world’s women. Yet from these frontlines, women leaders are designing solutions from the ground up. Listen to this conversation with four powerful leaders from the 2020 U.S. Grassroots Accelerator Program as we discuss what CARE looks like in their communities and their climate justice movements

With a Feminist Foreign Policy, Biden Could Get Climate Change Right

By Bridget Burns and Mara Dolan (Foreign Policy, READ)

At this week’s summit, the United States will need to think bigger. Here’s how. “Climate change impacts those already marginalized by gender, racial, and economic inequality, and the countries that are most responsible for creating that reality — first and foremost, the United States — must reorient their foreign policy toward global solidarity and protecting human rights.”

5 Ways To Improve Maternal Health by Addressing the Climate Crisis

By Osub Ahmed, Center for American Progress (READ)

The United States’ maternal health crisis makes the threat climate change poses to pregnant and postpartum people all the more alarming. “New research is also helping the public to better understand how climate change will negatively affect maternal health outcomes, such as by increasing the risk of preterm birth, pregnancy-related complications, and poor maternal mental health….” And what we can do about it.

Care Infrastructure Is Key to an Equitable, Green Recovery from the COVID-19 Crisis

By Casey Berkovitz, Amanda Novello, and Olivia Chan (Ms. Magazine — READ)

As policymakers confront the crises of the pandemic, climate change and racial injustice, an investment in care infrastructure — and the work force and green jobs that power it — presents an urgent opportunity to address all three.

These Women Are Transforming What Climate Leadership Looks Like. Here’s What They Learned From the Pandemic (READ)

By Naina Bajekal and Elijah Wolfson (Time Magazine)

“The COVID-19 pandemic, like the climate crisis, is amplifying existing racial and gender injustices in our society. TIME editors Naina Bajekal and Elijah Wolfson moderated a conversation with two women working to create a more inclusive climate leadership space: American author, strategist and teacher Katharine Wilkinson, who co-founded and leads The All We Can Save Project to nurture a leaderful climate community; and queer Colombian activist Maria Alejandra Escalante, who is the climate and environmental justice advocacy officer at FRIDA The Young Feminist Fund, which supports young feminist organizers in the Global South.”