Women's Day Feature: Women in Climate Change, Climate Action, Environment

This job post is for a feature on Women in Climate Change and Environment in celebration of International Women's Day 2025. It highlights various women-focused environmental projects and organizations in Canada and beyond, including opportunities for staff, volunteers, and board positions. The focus is on women's roles in climate action, sustainability, and related fields, emphasizing the importance of female leadership in addressing environmental issues.
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International Women's Day 2025

Saturday March 8, 2025

In celebration of International Women's Day, we've compiled this list of women-focused environmental projects. (Post here for staff, volunteers or board positions).

Women, Environment & Sustainability — groups & organizations in Canada & beyond
• Women for Climate – Mentors: Vancouver | Montreal | Toronto | more
• Women's Healthy Environments Network (WHEN) Canada
• Prevent Cancer Now | Breast Cancer Action Quebec
• Environmental Health Clinic – Women's College Hospital | more
• Women and Environments Magazine
• Women in Renewable Energy Canada
• Women in Cleantech Canada
• Women in Sustainability (US/global)
• Women in Sustainability (UK/USA/global)
• Women in Cleantech & Sustainability (USA)
• Women's Environmental Sustainability Network Ottawa
• Women in Polar Science (global)
• Women in Dev (global)
• Fashion Takes Action
• Native Women's Association of Canada
• Indigenous People, Nature & Environment | Jobs

Peace, nonviolence, conflict resolution
• Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW)
• Women, Peace & Security Network Canada (WPSN-C) (2)
• Peace groups and organizations in Canada and beyond
• Women & pacifism (links, resources, articles)
• Global: WILPF | PeaceWomen

Events
• Women's Climate Strike (past event) related resources

Girls, youth & young women (outdoor adventure & environment)
• Roots & Shoots (age 18+)
• Outward Bound Canada (outdoor adventures)
• Canadian Camping Association – Summer Camps
• Inspiring Girls (age 16+)
• Girls on Ice Canada (for young women)
• Girl Guides / Scouting & Guiding in Canada / Girls Action Foundation
• Take Me Outside | Outside Play | Wiki | Jobs

Global / international development
• Women and Gender Constituency / Combatting Climate Change
• Women's Earth and Climate Action Network
• Women's Earth Alliance
• Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN)
• Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO)
• Empower Women for Climate
• Nobel Women's Initiative

Articles
• Women / female environmentalists in Canada
• Women and the environment
• Meet 15 Women leading the fight against Climate Change
• Gender and climate change
• Organic agriculture and women's empowerment | jobs
• The new climate revolution will be led by women (National Observer)
• Climate action by and for women (UN Women)
• Women's outdoor adventure
• Women in science

Women Environmentalists in Canada & beyond
• Magaret Atwood (poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, inventor) website
• Maude Barlow (author, activist, Council of Canadians, The Blue Planet Project)
• Tzeporah Berman (environmental activist, campaigner, writer)
• Roberta Bondar (astronaut, physician, scientific researcher, photographer, author, environment...) Foundation
• Nicole Bruinsma (doctor, anti-pesticide advocate)
• Severn Cullis-Suzuki (environmental activist, speaker, TV host, author)
• Sarah Harmer (singer, songwriter, environmental activist)
• Jane Jacobs (journalist, author, activist, Janes Walk)
• Naomi Klein (author, social activist, filmmaker)
• Elizabeth May (environmentalist, author, activist, lawyer, politician, MP)
• Diana Beresford-Kroeger (author, botanist, climate change advocate)
• List of women environmentalists in Canada: Wikipedia | Google

Global
• Julia Butterfly Hill (environmental activist, tax redirection advocate, author, website)
• Helen Caldicott (physician, author, anti-nuclear advocate, If You Love This Planet)
• Rachel Carson (marine biologist, author, conservationist, Silent Spring)
• Jane Fonda (actress, activist, environmentalist)
• Jane Goodall (primatologist, anthropologist, conservationist, Jane Goodall Institute)
• Wangari Maathai (social, environmental and political activist, Nobel Peace Prize recipient)
• Vandana Shiva (scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist, anti-globalisation author) (search)
• Sandra Steingraber (biologist, author, cancer survivor, Living Downstream)
• Greta Thunberg (climate change activist, School Strike for Climate / Fridays for Future)

And you! Environmental Jobs | Board positions | Volunteer | How to be an activist | How to save the world in your spare time

International Women's Day is a global holiday celebrated annually on March 8 to commemorate the cultural, political, and socioeconomic achievements of women. It is also a focal point in the women's rights movement, bringing attention to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against women. — More: Wikipedia | UN Women | more | more

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