ABSTRACT
This chapter examines bottom-up strategies which are emerging in the face of climate change, especially with regard to their gendered impacts and women's agency. The details of each particular community's situation ecological, social, political are vitally important. The chapter distinguishes the various perspectives on women's roles and seeks out glimpses of the fundamental transformations which may address climate justice over the long term. It outlines some detailed strategies and experiences with grass-roots activism, networking, and global partnerships to advance women's climate justice leadership. The chapter concludes by noting some commonalities in the stories from the Global North and South, and some ways in which communication, solidarity and mutual reinforcement can strengthen and inspire feminist climate justice activism. Environmental education, a priority for women in Toronto, Maputo, Nairobi, Durban, and Sao Paulo, can mean formal and informal, child and adult education; education grounds climate justice organizing in local examples of global phenomena.
