Jaime Nack is the President of Three Squares Inc., a cutting edge sustainability consulting firm specializing in developing comprehensive sustainability plans for corporate, government and nonprofit entities. Listen to her interview as part of the Online Global Summit: “Women as Game Changers”.
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Natalie Isaacs, game changer, founder and CEO of 1 Million Women, is creating a movement of a million women and girls to take practical action to fight climate change by changing the way they live. Listen to her interview as part of the Online Global Summit: “Women as Game Changers”.
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The Black Mambas of The Balule Nature Reserve, a stone’s throw from Kruger Nature Reserve, on behalf of amazing Rhino Charity Helping Rhinos, protect the BIG FIVE: Rhinos, Lions, Leopards, Buffalo and Elephants. They clear countless snares which have been set up for catching game for the notorious bush meat trade and also teach locals about wilderness preservation.
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On Monday, April 18th, the Women As Game Changers free online Global Summit will launch, featuring interviews with Nell Newman of Newman’s Own Organics, Priscilla Woolworth, Natalie Isaacs of One Million Women, Kim Graham-Nye who was named one of Fortunes 10 Most Powerful Woman Entrepreneurs in 2011 and 25 more Powerful Woman Game Changers.
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For women, Twitter can be a hotbed of abuse and harassment so author Courtney Summers created the hashtag #ToTheGirls2016 to empower the next generation.
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Teachers, farmers, businesswomen, politicians, mothers, law enforcers — women and girls contribute every day in many visible and invisible ways. In honor of International Women’s Day, we share this glimpse into their lives.
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Water is sacred to the Turtle Mountain Tribe among many other. Water, more than anything, explains why members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians acted so quickly when they learned their region was next in line for fracking. Within just a few weeks of tribal women meeting on the topic in late 2011, the council banned fracking on the 77,000-acre reservation. They now are developing alternative energy with a Department of Energy grant.
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The remains of 14 women believed to be of high status and importance have been found at Stonehenge, the iconic prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England. The discovery, along with other finds, supports the theory that Stonehenge functioned, at least for part of its long history, as a cremation cemetery for leaders and other noteworthy individuals, according to a report published in the latest issue of British Archaeology. During the recent excavation, more women than men were found buried at Stonehenge, a fact that could change its present image. In almost every depiction of Stonehenge by artists and TV re-enactors we see lots of men, a man in charge, and few or no women,” archaeologist Mike Pitts, who is the editor of British Archaeology and the author of the book “Hengeworld,” told Discovery News. “The archaeology now shows that as far as the burials go, women were as prominent there as men. This contrasts with the earlier burial mounds, where men seem to be more prominent.” Pitts added, “By definition — cemeteries are rare, Stonehenge exceptional — anyone buried at Stonehenge is likely to have been special in some way: high status families, possessors of special skills or knowledge, ritual or […]
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When Ann Crady Weiss pitched her first start up — a social network known as Maya’s Mom that would allow mothers to seek advice and share their experiences — male investors weren’t exactly enamored with the idea. “There were many investors I spoke to who said moms don’t have time for social networks,” Weiss told Mashable. Weiss would, of course, prove those investors wrong: Maya’s Mom would raise $1 million in angel funding in 2006 before being acquired by a division of mega baby brand Johnson & Johnson a year later. But Weiss’ story isn’t exactly shocking or unique: it’s well-known that women in tech aren’t embraced by the primarily male venture capitalist community. Only about 5% of venture capital for new startups goes to companies headed by women. Now Weiss is the co-founder and CEO of her second startup: Hatch Baby, which produces products to help new parents, like a changing pad that tracks a baby’s weight, growth, and feeding patterns. While Hatch Baby has already brought in $7 million in Series A funding, Weiss turned to an unusual source of funding for a proven Silicon Valley CEO: ABC’s “Shark Tank.” The competition show, in which entrepreneurs pitch celebrity […]
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Dawn Shaughnessy and her team at the Heavy Element group are working to make chemistry class even harder. There is no element named after her (yet), but Dawn Shaughnessy—a relatively young chemist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory—is one of the more prolific researchers in the small world of scientists who seek to create entirely new entries to the periodic table that most of us learned about in grade school. The team she leads, the Heavy Element Group, was part of the discovery of three out of the four new elements announced last week in collaboration with researchers in Russia and Tennessee. In total, she’s helped discover 6 of the 26 new elements added since 1940 (one, Livermorium, was named after her lab). In an AMA on Reddit, she talked about how she became a scientist and where some of the current limits of science need to be stretched in order for new discoveries to continue in her field. Shaughnessy once wanted to become a doctor or surgeon, but by the time she got to middle school, she became interested in science. By high school, she realized chemistry was her calling. She hopes more kids consider her path: “I think that […]
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