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Welcome to WEN Then & Now. In honor of WEN’s 20th anniversary in 2017, we’re reconnecting with our former board members, thinking about how our organization has evolved and grown, and planning [...]

Event recap: WEN in Conversation with Environmental Journalist and Media Expert Betsy Rosenberg On July 26, 2017, WEN hosted an event to explore how we can make media coverage of environmental [...]

Suzanne York writes about how family planning and women’s rights are named as solutions to addressing climate change challenges in the new book Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed [...]

In Pescadero, California, a farming and ranching community on the scenic San Mateo Coast, Gallop Ventures hosted a leadership workshop for the Women's Environmental Network. Surrounded by natural [...]

The Bay Area’s biggest bicycling day of the year is coming up fast! The 23rd annual Bay Area Bike to Work Day is Thursday, May 11, 2017, with all nine counties celebrating as a part of National [...]

Welcome to WEN Then & Now. In honor of WEN’s 20th anniversary in 2017, we’re reconnecting with our former board members, thinking about how our organization has evolved and grown, and planning [...]

As April comes into full swing, we look forward to celebrating Earth Day and reflecting on what called us into the environmental movement in the first place. According to Earthday.org, “the [...]

For centuries, women pioneers have uncovered environmental health concerns, led grassroots campaigns, and fought to protect our air, water, land and species diversity. We’ve worked in government, [...]

It was a packed house for WEN’s first event of 2017 at the San Francisco Department of the Environment, as people came to hear Suzanne York’s talk on how supporting women’s rights can also [...]

In this month's blog post, Mary Ellen Hannibal, author of Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction, highlights ordinary people contributing to scientific research [...]