It’s April, the month of Earth Day, and we are proud to dedicate this issue of PeaceTimes to Mother Earth.
Like Mother Earth, we at Peace X Peace are always changing. You’ll notice a new format for this issue, designed to provoke and showcase your responses. Be sure to click to read the three feature stories and share your valuable perspectives. As we like to say, peace needs YOUR voice, and this is your place to contribute it.

Green Jobs: Women and the Birth of Earth-Care
This earth, …

By Mary Liepold, Editor in Chief
Here I go again, taking on another vast, global topic, from one generalist’s limited perspective, in an informal essay just a few pages long. The better to invite YOUR diverse perspectives, my dears! I’m opening the conversation, noting what strikes me on a too-quick survey of available information, omitting volumes, and anticipating full, formal reports that will be coming out later this year. Read, react, add, correct, and talk back, please.
I do have my nerve―but then so do the United Nations and its member states. …