WEA is partnering with Pink51 - Shop with Purpose!

WEA is thrilled to announce our exciting new partnership with Pink51.com as one of their featured organizations!

What does this mean?  Well, now there's a new way for your to support our work and vision to uplift grassroots women environmental leaders...all while getting your shopping done!

What Pink51 is: Pink51 is a for profit shopping website that promotes only women-owned and women-led businesses.  It's the only one of its kind, AND 10% of all profits each quarter are given back to featured organizations (like WEA!) that support women and girl's economic success.  Founded by Ann Lawrence and Marta Ferro and launched in June 2014, Pink51 believes that empowering women to succeed economically and in business will change the world for the better.   

Through our purchasing power (women account for $7 trillion in consumer and business spending in the U.S., 85% of all consumer purchases, and 58% of total online spending), we can support women-centered initiatives, can encourage female entrepreneurship, and can convince businesses to promote women to Senior Level and board positions.

How to Shop with Purpose: Super simple.  All you have to do is sign up for a free Pink51 account here, vote for WEA, and then rest assured that each dollar you spend is helping to make an impact.

Through this partnership—and yours—we know we can continue to make a difference by supporting grassroots women and their work around the world.

Seeds of Hope

"Seed is sacred...The desire to save seeds comes form an ethical urge to defend life's evolution." Dr. Vandana Shiva

Women farmers are the custodians of seeds around the world.

Seed exchanges among small farmers are a time memorial tradition that has led to the immense biodiversity of indigenous seeds around the world. Globally, it is mostly women farmers who are the seed savers, who possess an immense of body of knowledge to save and conserve seeds of vital food crops.

This April, Women's Earth Alliance friends, Astrid Lindo and Matthew Hoffman, founders of the Living Seed Company, donated heirloom, open pollinated seeds from their collections to share with a group of very special women farmers and community activists in India. These women were participants of the North India Women, Food Security and Climate Change Training Program that was designed and coordinated by WEA's partner, Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group.

Living Seed Company donated their collection of heirloom seeds as a symbolic gesture to stand in solidarity with the efforts of these brave women in India, who are reviving seed saving practices, farming ecologically and are building the resilience of other women in their communities, who are impacted by climate change.  Thank you Astrid and Matthew for your solidarity and for your untiring efforts to secure healthy communities by promoting the life-affirming practice of seed saving.

Seeds are a glowing example of a renewable resource.