Only 7% of investor money goes to women-led startups. We’re going to help crush those stats!! Folks, the Women Startup Challenge is on a roll. In Round I, over $315,000 was raised by the startups. A panel of judges consisting of investors and tech experts reviewed the 25 startups that raised the most money in Round I for viability and promise. Twelve women-led startups were chosen to move to the final round.
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Meryl Streep Wants You to Know Gender Equality Still Isn’t Guaranteed by the Constitution. The actor sent letters to Congress to urge it to pass an amendment that has been stalled for decades.
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Ecouterre interviews Linda Greer, Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council Linda Greer ranks among the fashion industry’s leading “toxic avengers.” As director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s five-year-old “Clean by Design” initiative, Greer is on the front line of a sector burdened by high energy and water use and endemic, often catastrophic, pollution. Her Sisyphean task? To leverage the purchasing power of multinational brands and retailers to chip away at the environmental impacts of their manufacturing abroad, beginning with the biggest offender: China. As NRDC prepares to, in its own words, “aggressively expand” the program’s reach, Ecouterre caught up with Greer to learn about her “win-win” strategy, what the early days of Clean by Design were like, and how we can differentiate the “true-gooders” from the “green-washers” in a post–corporate-social-responsibility world. E: How did Clean by Design get its start? LG: In 2008, the president of NRDC asked me to develop a project that would help to reduce the heavy industrial air and water pollution in China and serve as a model the country could use to accelerate its efforts. To do so, I first selected an industry with a heavy environmental footprint. Textiles distinguished itself as one […]
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Anna Taylor, a knitter with a heart of gold, has spent the better part of the last nine years knitting sweaters for the needy. Since February of 2006, The Cullen, Virginia native has worked tirelessly, knitting warm sweaters in her spare time for needy children across the world. The toil of Taylor’s work has reached a new milestone, as she boxes up her 1000th sweater for those in need!
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Wise Fool New Mexico’s Women’s Intensive Circus Camp is transforming women into fearless flyers! Since 2002, Wise Fool New Mexico has held an amazing, annual 6-week circus camp for women of all ages to come together to challenge themselves and inspire each other to often unheard of new heights of physical and emotional expression through the arts. The women create their own acts with the help of teachers and coaches to illustrate these concepts from their own voice.
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Karen Warner founded Big Head Farm in 2009, located in southwest Michigan. After experiencing the challenges of starting a farm and creating a viable business, Warner began thinking through ways to support new farmers and to protect small to mid-sized farms from going out of production. Warner is currently working to advance a farm accelerator model that would give farmers the resources and support they need to succeed from start-up to retirement.
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Eighteen-year-old Karma — who recently emigrated from Nepal — wants to improve her public speaking skills and gain self-confidence. Egyptian-born Tasnim, 17, was excited to put together her first resume. The teens were taking part in the first workshop offered by New Women New Yorkers, a brand-new New York City nonprofit that aims to help female immigrants become more successful in college and at work.
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So I am reading this book called “Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself”. Funny title, huh? Actually the book is pretty scientific in a sort of layperson way. It talks about the “quantum field” which is pure energy. And this energy field, where you and I and everything else in the universe live, is where all potentiality exists.
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Women Of Green is proud to be a media partner in the 6th Annual Women In Green Forum to be held August 26th in Los Angeles, California. Promoted as a unique conference experience set in the hills of Los Angeles, the Women In Green Forum has emerged as the premier conference series highlighting women’s impact on the environmental industry.
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Since the dawn of our great nation, there’s one thing United States citizens can count on: seeing white guys everywhere. In spite of women outnumbering men in the US and our ever-growing racial diversity, white guys dominate our media, our history books, our government, and (especially) our money. You probably have some white guys in your wallet right now. The organization Women on 20s has been working to bring more diversity to your wallet by getting a woman on the $20 bill in place of Andrew Jackson. And a lot of people including the folks in Washington agree it’s time to give a woman the honor. Once the voting is closed, Women On 20s will submit a formal petition to the White House. From there they hope the president will give the order to the US Treasury to make the change. Those against the idea argue that the men on our money should stay because they’re some of our “founding fathers.” That’s not true. Abraham Lincoln was not a founding father, and Andrew Jackson was only 9 years old when the country was founded. Plus, as supporters of the switch point out, Jackson has (to put it mildly) a rather […]
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