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. […]

Report-back from the Women’s Media Equity Summit: Visioning Activity
Note: I can’t possibly type as fast as the women in this group speak, so I’ll do my best to capture the essence of what is said, and as a journalist I will attempt to quote accurately. But, understand that there will be typos, paraphrased comments, etc.
Youth […]

“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 […]

In March I was honored to lead my first WIMN Media Training. The training was held in Washington, DC and was the for the United Methodist Women’s Division Ecumenical Advocacy Days. The group of women gathered to learn more about green living issues and strategize how they can advocate to the public and elected officials […]

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?

By Guest Blogger Kristen Harbeson

Here is what the New York Times wants me to know about what is going on in my country on August 21, 2008:
1) Millionaires in Los Angeles are giving up mansions to live in condos. This story is accompanied by a picture of Candy Spelling, the smiling widow of Aaron […]

I was lucky enough to be invited to talk about the issues of poverty, digital divide, and what social media advocates could do about it. This is a very important issue to me because I work on poverty and the internet everyday. Some interesting developments in social media, the political elections, tech policies & government […]