Climate Wise Women Tour: Georgetown
In April 2010, Climate Wise Women from the South Pacific Islands, Uganda and Biloxi, Mississippi will begin a 30-city, 18-country speaking tour in the Americas. These community activists can’t wait for politicians and governmental negotiators to get it right on climate change. They want straight talk on what climate change is doing to women, children, families and communities around the world. The tour continues to Asia / the Pacific in Fall 2010 and to Europe in Spring 2011.
Panelists- Keya Chatterjee, World Wildlife Foundation
- Kate Sheppard, Mother Jones
- Kari Manlove, Center for American Progress
- Tonya Rawe, CARE
- Gina Wimp, Georgetown University
Georgetown
Reiss Science Bldg Rm 112 6-8:00pm
Climate Wise Women Tour: Johns Hopkins
In April 2010, Climate Wise Women from the South Pacific Islands, Uganda and Biloxi, Mississippi will begin a 30-city, 18-country speaking tour in the Americas. These community activists can’t wait for politicians and governmental negotiators to get it right on climate change. They want straight talk on what climate change is doing to women, children, families and communities around the world. The tour continues to Asia / the Pacific in Fall 2010 and to Europe in Spring 2011.
Panelists- Majora Carter, Majora Carter Group
- Elizabeth Becker, Author/Journalist
- Kathleen Rogers, Earth Day Network
Johns Hopkins
1717 Mass. Ave NW Rm LL7
Women, Nuclear Energy and Justice in a Warming World
Join us for this public event where women Nobel Peace Laureates and co-founders of the Nobel Women’s Initiative, Wangari Maathai and Jody Williams, will discuss their vision of ‘climate justice’ – an approach to climate change that recognizes differential responsibilities for developed and developing countries, and puts the rights of people, especially women, at the center of the climate debate. Pat Mitchell, President of The Paley Center for Media and the former President and CEO of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), will moderate.
- Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.
- Jody Williams, founding coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, was awarded the Prize in 1997 for her work in creating an international treaty to ban landmines.
Location: Carnegie Institution of Washington
1530 P ST. NW
Washington, D.C. 20035