Educational Resources

The District 12 Action for Environment and Gender Equality committee educational resources page is a comprehensive list of active links to reliable resources to learn more about climate action and gender equality. The categories and links provide an opportunity to increase knowledge about climate change, climate action and gender equality in a nonpartisan, scientific and informative manner. Our mission is to improve the lives of women and girls by encouraging Zontians to make a difference in their home environment, community, region and clubs.

Advocacy
Zonta International Service and Advocacy
Zonta USA Caucus Fast Action Friday – Use your voice for bypartisan legislative action with your U.S. Representatives and U.S. Senators
1 Million Women advocacy for climate action
CAWP – Center for American Women and Politics – The leading source of scholarly research and current data about women’s political participation in the United States. Its mission is to promote greater knowledge and understanding about the role of women in American politics, enhance women’s influence in public life, and expand the diversity of women in politics and government.
Women’s Congressional Policy Institute – A nonpartisan source for federal legislative efforts that effect women and girls to advance issues important to women. Free registration for recurring updates.
Ms Magazine News – Articles about issues that matter to women

Air Pollution:
Moms Clean Air Force (Colorado)
Environmental Protection Agency: Clean Air Act Overview (subject to change)
AirNOW Wildfires – Maps, preparation, evacuation and post fire resources
AirNOW – air quality flag program for organizations to alert citizens about air quality, and school resources

Child Care:
Child care deserts – unavailable and unaffordable in western states

Climate Literacy: Glossary

• Climate vs Weather
• Climate action
• Climate justice
• Climate migration/Displacement
• Equality vs equity
• Greenhouse gas
• Greenwashing aka green gaslighting
• Food insecurity vs hunger
• Evacuation terminology
• Sustainability

Cost of Climate Change:
National Center for Environmental Information: Billion Dollar Weather
World Economic Forum – Bringing businesses, government and civil society together to address climate change and our future

Climate Justice
Climate Justice is Climate Change and Social Justice. When the climate, or weather patterns worsen, then all social justice issues worsen.

• Grist – Climate, Justice, Solutions

Disaster Risk Management:

• Colorado Public Radio article on disaster management: Scroll down to article
• World Bank Climate and Disaster Risk Screening Tools
• U.S. Government Climate Resilience Toolkit – Neighborhoods at Risk
• Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (United National office for Disaster Risk Reduction)
• Preparing for disaster – Emergency food and water storing and supplies
• Climate Change: Preparing for Disasters presentation by Liz Whitham, Zonta Club of Prowers County
• Communities Responding to extreme weather with “Climate Crew”
• World Meteorological Organization – World Weather Climate Extremes Map and resources

 
Empowering girls and women:

• Girls Empowerment Network – 8 Ways to Educate & Engage Boys in the movement for Girls Empowerment
• Plan International – Effects of Climate Change on Girls Rights
• Ungei – Transform Education – Gender Equality
• Climate Girl Effect
• “Why We Desperately Need More Female Leaders Making the Decisions on Climate Change” – Vogue Article
• United Nations website: Women and girls must lead the battle against ‘widespread and interlinked crises’
• NPR – Meet 5 women documenting Climate Change around the World
• Non Profit Quarterly Climate Justice page
• Green Ninja – Climate Education Resources for Student Leadership and Success – Middle School lessons and Teacher resources

 
Energy:

• NAACP – Health Impacts from Air Pollution/oil and gas facilities
• Inside Climate News: Russia’s war in Ukraine poses risk for EV’s future
• Momentum: 10 Reasons to Commute with an Electric Bike in the city
• Inside Climate News ‘Exxon: The Road Not Taken’ a history of Exxon’s knowledge of the impact of fossil fuels
• Eco-cycle article: Nation’s First electric trash truck
• Save energy at home: Combating Climate Change and What you can do to help
• World Resources Institute: US Clean Power Development Sees Record Progress
• NREL 100% Clean Electricity by 2035 Study

 
Fashion

• Earth.org: The Environmental Impact of Fast Fashion explained
  
• US Government Accountability Office: Fast Fashion – Great for your Wallet, Costly for the Planet
• World Resources Institute: The Apparel Industry’s Environmental Impact in 6 Graphics
• Earth.org: The Dark Side of Fast Fashion
• David Suzuki Foundation: The Environmental Costs of Fast Fashion
  

Finance: From COP26 November3 –How insurance companies can avoid taking the brunt of climate change disruption podcast

Food Security/Agriculture:

• NIH abstract regarding special considerations for women
• Food and climate change video
• World Bank Food Security Update
• AgMission
• StrayDog Institute – Food and Agriculture
• Sustainable Harvest International
• Sustainable Farming – Corporate practices vs Agroecology
• Fighting Food Insecurity through Urban Farming
• Global Agrucilture and Food Security Program fact sheet
• Why Agriculture Research is Important by CGIAR organization
• Website FoodTank discusses global food issues, podcasts and more
• UN Report: The World’s Food Supply is Made Insecure by Climate Change
• ForeignPolicy.com Article: The Solutions to the Global Food Crisis Isn’t More Food
• Stanford University: Climate Change Cuts Global Crop Yields
  

 
Gender and Poverty:

• US Women’s Caucus CSW69 Beijing +30 Shadow Report: Women and Poverty
• US Women’s Caucus CSW 68 Gender and Poverty briefs

 
Gender Equality:

• World Bank report on Gender Equality and Disaster Risk and Resilience
• Gender Equality Article in online magazine, Carbonbrief
• CEDAW – Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women
  • History – Adoption by the UN General Assembly 1979
  • 2022 news on CEDAW by the U.N.
• U.N. Sustainable Development Goal #5 Gender Equality update 2022
• Gender, Climate Change, and Security
• UN General Assembly Report – Violence against women and Environmental Degradation
• Women’s UN Report
• Gender & Climate Justice presentation (WUNRN)
• Gender and Environment Organization
• Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network, International
• WEDO (Women’s Environment & Development Organization) (advocates)
• Gender and Environment Data Alliance
• Article ‘Gender and Climate Change in the United States’
• Women4Climate
• United Nations ‘Women and Girls Must Lead the Battle’ by Secretary General Antonio Guterres
• 1 Million Women – for climate action and gender equality- Australia
• The Economist: Video: Who Should Fix Climate Change?
• Zonta Says NOW to Gender Equality and Climate Change
• Zonta USA Caucus – Zonta Says NOW webpage and resources
• U.S. Women’s Caucus at the U.N. statements on various components of gender equality and climate change
• Climate Change: What’s Gender got to do with it?
• One Earth Website: articls, Why Women are the Key to Solving the Climate Crisis
• NonProfit Quarterly emagazine – Making Mothers Out Front A Liberatory Space (for gender equal climate justice)
• Sendai Framework for Disaster Resilience

 
Global Leadership & Climate Change:

• COP26 Website 2021
• COP27 outcome 2022
  • 5 Key Outcomes
• For nearly three decades the UN has been bringing together world bodies for global climate summits – called COPs – which stands for ‘Conference of the Parties’. The summit is generally attended by representatives of the countries that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – a treaty that came into force in 1994. Members of Civil Society attend and observe on a limited basis.
• This year, the 26th annual summit (COP26) runs from Sun, Oct 31, 2021 – Fri, Nov 12, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. Those of us who are unable to attend in person can join the “Green Zone” (a COP26 program of events set up for civil society) virtually by subscribing to the COP26 YouTube channel.
• Human Rights to co-host global climate summit article
• Right Here Right Now Global Climate Alliance
• Free training to learn how to spark conversations about climate in a positive and comprehensive manner
• Climate Justice Alliance
• Climate Solutions Minnesota
• Gender, Envrionment, and Climate Change: Third world women, water, and marriage
• Project Drawdown – Educational information on climate solutions
• Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework to learn more about solutions for climate change

 
‘Green’ or Environmentally Conscious Shopping:

• Learn what it means and how to shop ‘green’.
• Learn to have a ‘Green’ Christmas

 
Health Impact from Climate Change:

• March 2025 AEGE Committee Presentation: Health Impacts from Climate Change with Lori Byron, MD MS, Montana HPHC
• UN Women – How women’s health is impacted as a result of climate change
• NIH Study: Climate Change and Women’s Healath – A Scoping Review
• Scientific American: Doctor’s Warn Climate Chnge Threatens Public Health
• Carbon Brief: How Climate Change Disproportionally Affects Women’s Health
• WWE (Women’s Voices for the Earth): article Women, Health, and the Environment
• U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Climate and Health Assessment – The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States
• Climate Distress and Anxiety study by Dr. Panu Pihkala
• AEGE guset speaker Amanda Rebel, Climate Therapist on Climate Anxiety (added 05/02/2023)
• Northwestern University article: Forever Chemicals linked to Uterine Fibroids

 
Indigenous Women:

• Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women – Alaska
• Native Americans Right to Vote history (Washington Post article)
• US Women’s Caucus – Native American Perspective on Climate Justice CSW66
• U.S. Government Resilience Toolkit: Tribal Nations
• Natural Hazards Center Climate Conversations – Managing Traditional Knowledge with Western Science
• N. Arizona University: Tribes and Climate Change – Oglala Lakota plan
• Climate Action: Tribal Approaches by state (USA)
• How Montana tribes rely on tradition to fight climate change video
• High Country News A variety of issues in Western Indigenous communities
• Time for Action video with Jackqui Patterson, Sheri Mitchell, and Katherine Quaid
• Five Indigenous Farming Practices Enhancing Food Security
  
• Native American Agriculture Fund Report: Reminaging Hunger Responses in Times of Crisis
• Downloadable report: Climate Justice for Indigenous Women
• NPQ (NonProfitQuarterly) enewsletter: Article: The Eldests: Stories of Economies

 
Plastic Pollution :

• Learn about plastics in our packaging and elsewhere
• Ideas to reduce plastic usage – plastic free guide
• Sowing a Plastic Planet: New Report Exposes Intentional Use of Microplastics on Food Crops
• Plastic Free July – Avoiding the use of single use plastics, resources, and support for individuals, communities, businesses, and schools
• Colorado – Eco-Cycle poly bag recycling program in Boulder
• Tips for an Eco-friendly kitchen by reducing plastics
• Trex Plastic Recycling
  • Trex U.S. Recycling Centers (plastic)
  • School Challenge Activity Infographic
  • Learn about plastic recycling – Educational Information and videos
• Global Plastic Laws – UN Plastics Treaty
• The Story of Plastic video about plastic waste

 
Technology/Funding
This section includes the need for gender equal funding and technology to provide equality in innovation, education, business ownership, land ownership, and opportunity for building a better world.

• U.N. resource on Data Visualization and Gender Equality
• WEDO – The Gender-Environment Data Gap
• CSW67 Gender and Technology Briefs by US Women’s Caucus at the UN

 
Trash/Waste/Recycling:

• A friendly little video: ‘The Zero Waste Climate Solution’
• Learn Zero Waste – For businesses and home – information on lowering waste which lowers carbon emissions
• Eco-cycle article ‘Composting & Carbon Farming’
• YouTube video ‘The Truth About Recycling’ and solutions
• Recycling plastics, cardboard, and more
• A guide to recycling – to save energy
• (The R – U’s) Reduce, reuse, repair, recycle, regift, repurpose, refuse, restore, and upcycle
  • Colorado – Ecocycle Organization
  • Ecocycle March 2022 Newsletter
  • U.S. National Recycling Goal
  • Colorado Plastic Bag / Plastic Foam Container Ban 2021
  • Recycle Now – Reduce, repair, reuse
  • Western States reclamation work and careers
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – Reduce & Reuse Basics

Science of Climate Change

• Learning Science Museum Group – Climate Change Video Series

US Women’s Caucus at the UN:

• The Impact of Climate Change on Women and Girls Seven specific recommendations for climate action and gender equality to improve the lives of women.
• United Nations Declaration of Human Rights
• US Women’s Caucus CSW69 Shadow Reports on the Beijing Platform – short briefs on 12 main areas of concern from the Beijing Platform for Action for women and girls

 
Water

• EcoWatch – Guide to Saving Water using Grey Water
• How to Reduce Water Waste
• U.S. EPA ‘Climate Change Impacts on Freshwater Resources’
• Climate Portal at MIT ‘Freshwater and Climate Change’
• UN ‘Why Women are key to climate action’
• NEEF (National Environment Education Foundation) The Increasing Demand and Decreasing Supply of Water’

 
Zonta International:

Zonta International Statement on Climate Change and Gender Equality

Zonta District 12- Zonta Says NOW Facebook Page