Women from 35 countries make plan for climate.

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Length: 0:28:46
Uploaded: 7 Oct, 2013

Recording Date: 6 Oct, 2013
Recording Location: Suffern, New York; Hamden, Connecticut; Vancouver BC
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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WINGS #24-13 Earth Climate Summit by Melinda Tuhus and WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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Program Title: WINGS #24-13 Earth Climate Summit
Description: The International Women's Earth & Climate Summit (Sept. 20-23 in New York state) brought together women "who are in strategic positions to implement the critical solutions that are needed to address the world’s pressing climate challenges."

Host(s): Melinda Tuhus
Featured Speakers/Guests: Dr. Janice Turner, representing the Lenape indigenous people of the Hudson Valley; Altossa Soldani, founder and director of Amazon Watch; Osprey Orielle Lake, co-founder of the International Women's Earth and Climate Initiative and co-chair of the summit; climate consultant and conference volunteer Gloria Flora; Tzeporah Berman, a Canadian who has led several successful environmental campaigns; Thilmeeza Hussein founded Voice of Women in the low-lying Maldives island chain and represented Maldives at the United Nations; Rosemary Enie, who works on grassroots projects with women in Tanzania; Casey Camp Horinek of the Ponca Nation in Oklahoma; native Hawai'ian Malia Nobrega-Olivera; Katherine Hayhoe, director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University; Bineta Diop from Senegal has played an influential role in tying climate change to peace and security in Africa and highlighting the special concerns of women - in 2011, Time magazine named her among the 100 Most Influential People in the World; Sally Ranney, co-chair of the conference; Jacquie Patterson with the climate justice program of the NAACP;

Credits: Produced for WINGS by Melinda Tuhus; WINGS Series Producer, Frieda Werden

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