Friday, May 11, 2012

Breakfast in Bed is Nice, but a Seat at the Table is Invaluable. « MomsRising Blog

Breakfast in Bed is Nice, but a Seat at the Table is Invaluable. « MomsRising Blog:

Miriam Feffer

Breakfast in Bed is Nice, but a Seat at the Table is Invaluable.

Posted May 11th, 2012 by Miriam Feffer
Meet Annie Spiegelman, a Bay Area mom who blogs as “The Dirt Diva” on matters of love, gardening, and cultivating a healthy planet.  Just in time for Mother’s Day, Annie shares her interview with Rachel’s Network Co-Director Laurie Syms on the evidence that women in Congress, regardless of party, support the environment at rates that outpace their male counterparts.
A Rachel’s Network report entitled “When Women Lead: A Decade of Women’s Environmental Voting Records in Congress,”  compares the environmental voting records of Congresswomen and Congressmen from the 107th through the 111th Congress.  The conclusion:  in both houses of Congress, whether red or blue, women are greener!
Here’s Annie’s personal account of a moving conversation:


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