It’s become a tradition to recommend reading each July, and this summer, the challenge was making choices as there are so many new books to suggest. I have chosen to focus this summer’s reading list on women authors (no surprise there) and books that offer new perspectives on the nature and climate emergency being felt by each of us.
Read MoreLeading Like Everything Is Connected — Because It Is
As friends, family, and faithful readers know, I believe that braver and bolder leaders are needed now more than ever. With the accelerating climate crisis, the violent conflicts with enormous loss of lives in so many places, widening inequality, rising authoritarianism, and the ongoing degradation of nature, the question before us is how will each of us, individually and collectively, lead forward?
Read MoreCelebrating Kathy Eldon's New Book 'BOUNDLESS'
At its heart, it’s a call to spark some good trouble together — to create pockets of love, connection, hope and creativity when and where the world needs it most. In short, to become a creative activist! If you believe in the power of stories to spark change, as I do, then “BOUNDLESS” is for you.
Read MoreThe Deep Need for Connection and Community
I often find both meaning and renewed purpose when I’m in a convening of women and men who are committed to making a positive impact. The gift of presence, of physical connection and collective experiences and participation, cannot be replicated or replaced.
Read MoreMake a Wish and Take Action
At dinner this week, my 10-year-old granddaughter Marisol brought me a dandelion she had picked from a field of dandelions in nearby Piedmont Park in downtown Atlanta. As she handed it to me with great care so as not to disturb the perfect circle of seeds, she said, “Blow the seeds, Gigi, and make a wish!”
Read MoreMore People Care About the Climate Crisis Than You Think
The fact that nearly nine out of ten people on the planet demand climate action seems especially newsworthy at a time when some governments and corporations are backtracking on climate action even as ferocious heat waves, fires, and floods are harming more and more people and economies around the world.
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UPlifting Ways to Celebrate Women's History Month
This week: Announcing UP, the first female-forward social media platform and a Project Dandelion partnership to bring the new documentary, MRS ROBINSON, to your living room with a free virtual screening! MRS ROBINSON is more than a documentary, it’s a blueprint for modern leadership. Read more inside.
Read MoreSeeding a Sustainable Future — A New Year's Resolution for Everyone
As one of the founders of Project Dandelion, I am pleased to share some reflections on what we observed and responded to in 2024 and how we envision our work in the new year. We’ve spent 2024 proving something powerful: the appetite for meaningful action at the intersection of climate and nature has never been greater. This is about what we can do together. It’s about connecting the people and resources needed to tip the scales toward a livable, just world.
Read MoreIndigenous Wisdom: Crucial for Climate Action
As the world grapples with the climate crisis, the knowledge and sustainable practices that Indigenous communities possess are crucial for protecting biodiversity and the fragile ecosystems necessary for sustaining life on earth.
Read More“There is no time for despair...’
As Americans try to prepare for what’s ahead with the re-election of Donald Trump, I am sharing some facts this week on one of the many areas of concern for pushback — the nature and climate crisis.
Read MoreReflections on Biodiversity COP
Along with Project Dandelion Executive Director Ronda Carnegie, I attended what is known as the BioCOP, and wanted to share, in brief, what I would describe generally as a learning journey that gave both of us a clearer understanding of the fact that there can be no solution to the climate crisis without solutions to the nature crisis.
Read MoreWhat Is Your Leadership Legacy?
I am thinking a lot about leadership as faithful readers know, and assuming you are, too, given that we, as citizens of a democracy, are electing our most important leaders, nationally and in states and communities. I’ve written a lot already in this weekly post about the historic nature of this US election, and I felt that profoundly this week when I voted with my 18-year-old granddaughters who are first-time voters.
Read MoreRevising History in Real Time
In this post-truth world, there are just too many lies leading to too many conspiracy theories to keep up with rebuttals based on facts… and apparently, the facts have become much less popular than the lies that travel much faster online.
Read MoreDo you remember the first time you voted?
I do…and that was some decades ago! The memory of standing in line in my small hometown in Georgia — a much shorter line than the ones I stand in today in Atlanta — and being handed a paper ballot with boxes next to a long list of names is one that I will never forget.
Read MoreJoin Me for a Mobilization for Women's Rights and the Planet Happening in NYC on Saturday
Come together to show solidarity for women’s rights and the right to a habitable planet — both of which are under threat.
Read MoreSome good news in a tough week
There is more public support than ever to demand swift actions on climate change. The biggest ever standalone public opinion survey on climate change, the Peoples’ Climate Vote 2024, shows that 80 percent of people globally want their governments to take stronger action to tackle the climate crisis.
Read MoreHeat: The ‘Silent Assassin of Climate Change’
By 2050, heat waves will affect more than 3.5 billion people worldwide with great risks to cities, according to a 2023 study commissioned by the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center. Women leaders like Emma Howard Boyd (Vice Chair, Climate Resilience for All), Kathy Baughman McLeod (CEO, Climate Resilience for All) and Reema Nanavaty (SEWA), are the allies the world needs to enact solutions in these dangerously hot times.
Read MoreHistory Making Elections: Women Presidents in Mexico and Iceland
Earlier this week, some very good news, as two women, Halla Tómasdóttir in Iceland and Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico, were elected president. But stories of women workers suffering in the brutal heatwaves in India remind us that women experience more acutely the many negative impacts of climate change, and it is women leaders who must prioritize the climate and nature crisis.
Read MoreDemocracies Are Stronger When They Work Together
Kenya has been very much in the news this week. Feted with a state dinner in DC last Thursday, Kenyan President William Ruto, his wife, Rachel, and a delegation of ministers concluded the first state visit to the US by an African leader in nearly two decades.
Read More‘The Antidote to Doom is Doing‘
“Climate change is affecting mental health literally everywhere,” writes Daisy Simmons at Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. It's not surprising. We’ve just lived through 16 months with the hottest temperatures on record, and extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change keep happening. But research shows that action is indeed the antidote to despair.
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