If you thought that climate change was all about the polar bears think again! Women are most affected by climate change, but also in the best position to make change. Find out what negotiators and NGOs are doing to address gender inequalities in climate change. If you want to learn more, check out the … Continue reading Gender and Climate Change, for the visual learners

Ok, so here’s where we are. The unprecedented spread of English should probably not be cheered as a superhero, but approached as a wildfire. When controlled, wildfires can actually be good for a forest, but if it gets out of hand…well, just look at California right now. It’s not good. Luckily, I am an optimist, … Continue reading Controlling the language wildfire

You’ve probably read about it in the news. It’s a sweeping sensation around the world. It’s showing up in classrooms and science publications, even on street signs and in restaurants. It may be the solution to international cooperation. If you haven’t heard, it’s a pretty big deal. Is it a bird? A plane? No, its … Continue reading Too much English!

This is part 5 of a series on climate change and gender. “It doesn’t start with policy. We get to the policy point because something has been started on the ground. The work done on the ground is just so important because if we wait around for policies, like the implementation of the SDGs [Sustainable … Continue reading From the bottom up: Working outside international

This is part 4 of a series on climate change and gender. Causes of climate change are influenced by gender. Affects of climate change impact different genders differently. Responses to climate change could even be gender-based. So it stands to reason that taking gender into account when making climate policy might be a good idea. … Continue reading On the Changes in Implementation: Gender mainstreaming

This is part 3 of a series on climate change and gender. Women are over-affected by climate change, and under-represented in negotiations to address it. They are well-positioned to enact mitigation and adaptation strategies but not to create the policies to enforce them. The glaring dichotomy highlights the need for multi-level changes to achieve equality, … Continue reading On the changes in Negotiations: Gender balance

This is part 2 of a series on climate change and gender. When constructing a road, your first have to blaze a trail. Then you prepare the way and lay some groundwork. Only then can you construct the road that will get you where you want to be. As you may have guessed, I’m not … Continue reading The Steps to Paving a Road: A brief history of gender in the UNFCCC

On the corner of Gordon Avenue and Dekalb Avenue, there was a lot of grass with a large, historic pecan tree. I drove by it growing up, on the way to and from soccer practice, trying to skirt traffic after summer camp, visiting my friend’s house just 200 yards away. I even went to college … Continue reading Vicious Women: Fighting for Space in Atlanta

Environmental history. I have to start here, because it’s in my title, it was in the title of the presentation, and before Dr. Tom Rogers started talking, I had no idea that it even existed as its own subfield. But it turns out that a historian like Dr. Rogers interested in environmental movements can actually … Continue reading Environmental History Audience Challenge