This past Thursday (March 4), I saw a special, one-night-only nationwide screening of “Half the Sky.” The film, based on a staged event at NYU last fall, is in turn based on the book of the same title by NY Times reporters Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn. It featured readings […]

Grist, the online environmental magazine, had this very creative and accurate (if a bit mean-spirited) editorial on Sarah Palin’s resignation from her post as governor of Alaska.
Click on the “greeting card” and you’ll see what I mean.
Palin’s no friend of the earth, and the cartoon (or whatever you’d call it) made me laugh. […]

“A Cleaner, Greener Planet,” a blog post from Aparna Krishnaswamy and Elizabeth Arndorfer’s blog at RH RealityCheck, says it all:
Earth Day never used to be a day when reproductive health organizations were particularly busy. But on this April 22nd, 2009, things are looking very different.
Reproductive health, rights and justice organizations across the […]

The annual Pulitzer Prizes, announced yesterday, include seven women in six of 21 categories. Two are women of color. These proportions aren’t half bad compared with female representation on panels about important public issues, in certain professions, etc.
Let’s celebrate: Alexandra Berzon of the Las Vegas Sun, for Public Service reporting […]

How to distort facts to suit your own agenda

Here’s some good news for women in journalism: longtime investigative environmental journalist Marla Cone, who spent nearly two decades at the Los Angeles Times, has just taken the helm as editor in chief at the online publication Environmental Health News. (I’ve spotlighted her work here, and on my own blog, Green Goddess Gazette.) […]

MTV’s new video is cute and edgy, but Debra Lynn Dadd wrote the book on telling truly eco-conscious products from fakes.

Perhaps you’ve seen the video of Sarah Palin asserting a new gas pipeline is God’s Will?

Check it out: The Huffington Post (founded, as we all know, by a woman) debuted its new Green section today. The fact that HufPo has devoted an entire department to environmental hard news and lifestyle features is an ode to Ms. Arianna’s awareness that, as I say in my profile, these issues affect all […]

Whether or not Hillary Clinton drops out of the presidential race, we’ll still have at least two candidates to fill the shoes of potential First Female Commander in Chief. Namely, Rep. Cynthia McKinney and Kat Swift, who are running (along with two men) under the banner of the Green Party of the United States. […]