Women
See also Eco-Feminism and Development.
Articles and Reports
Gender Inequality and economic development from Oxfam.
Gender aspect of climate change.
Images
Video
TEDtalks countdown to the best of the year includes great talk by Naomi Klein on "Why We Are Addicted to Risk?" (includes the underlying myths that drive environmental and economic problems, in opposition to the Precautionary Principle). See also TEDWomen.
Gloria Steinem on deep ecology.
Women Reshaping the World and Celebrating Tedwomen at TED conference.
Hanna Rosin reviews startling new data that shows women actually surpassing men in several important measures, such as college graduation rates. Do these trends, both US-centric and global, signal the "end of men"? Probably not -- but they point toward an important societal shift worth deep discussion. (TEDtalk video).
Halla Tomasdottir: A feminine response to Iceland's financial crash.
Books
Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her by Susan Griffin Derek Jensen says "This extraordinary and extraordinarily beautiful book is one of the most important books I've ever read. Using the words of scientific philosophers themselves (but putting them into a beautifully-written, poetic context) Susan Griffin brilliantly shows how the logic of science is fundamentally anti-life, and anti-woman. She juxtaposes this to some of the most wonderful embodied prose you could ever hope to read, and moves the reader from this alienated state of modern civilized people and back into our bodies. Words cannot do this book justice."
Riane Eisler: The Chalice and the Blade (1987). Eisler relates how critical the roles of cooperation and sexual equality have been in the evolution of human culture -- not only to correct the idea that might-makes-right makes history, but also to point out the direction humankind might follow from here. Susan Griffin: Woman and Nature (1978). A powerful exposition of how women and the natural world have been seen as versions of each other -- and violated in strangely similar ways.
Audio
Trekking with the Queen of Bhutan, a country which measures progress not by GDP but happiness and well-being of its people. From The Kitchen Sisters' (Slugs!) Hidden World of Girls.
Environmental health advocate Charlotte Brody suggests that female scientists, with a different way of seeing problems and solutions, may lead us toward a new and healthy approach to the connections between human health and the health of the planet. Bioneers
