There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.

The environmental movement could do a better job incorporating the message about the connection between poverty and environmental degradation, and building that message at the grassroots level.

When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.

What keeps me motivated is going out to the field and seeing programs that incorporate a focus on both people and the planet, and seeing how mutually reinforcing they can really be.

You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.