The EarthX 2025 assembled influential decision-makers, entrepreneurs, scientists, filmmakers, and environmentalists in a multifaceted series of forums, workshops and discussions, gathering in Dallas, April 21- 25, 2025. The Earth Day Women's Summit was held as a pilot as a part of the EarthX, and made possible by Electric Ladies Podcast, Global Green USA and Green Cross International.



The Women’s Summit brought together an extraordinary mix of brilliant women who shared their innovative work and creative ingenuity to address the multifaceted issues we face as a global community in adapting to the climate crisis and working for a sustainable future. These trailblazing women are at the forefront of their fields, as change-makers and taking sustainability to a new level, beyond polarization. They raise awareness and empower people for resilience, exploring creative solutions that can help us connect to our power within and align with Mother Earth. They embody women from around the globe, half humanity, and a reservoir of vast potential to help bridge us towards a brighter more sustainable future.

The Earth Day Women's Summit was produced by Joan Michelson, Host of the Electric Ladies Podcast, and William Bridge, CEO Global Green USA. The speakers included Mirian Vilela, Executive Director, Earth Charter International, in Cost Rica; Jennifer Hough, Canadian author and President of The Wide Awakening, Inna Modja, French Malian UNCCD Goodwill Ambassador and Co-Founder of the NGO Code Green; Rachelle Begley, Actress and environmentalist from Los Angeles; Zara Summers, Chief Science Officer, Lanza Tech, Dr. Svitlana Krakovska, Ukrainian climate scientist and IPCC member, Chelsea Henderson, Director of Editorial Content at RepublicEn.org; Author of “Glacial: The Inside Story of Climate Politics” and many more.

During the Climate Security panel, Mirian Vilela emphasized the value of the Earth Charter as a guiding ethical framework, and shared the work of Earth Charter International in nurturing a planetary consciousness and ethic of care. She reflected on world leadership and climate in terms of human security:

“The major problem is that there are many ethical and ecologically illiterate leaders making important decisions that significantly impact people's lives. The Earth Charter provides us with an ethical compass and an educational tool to help address these challenges.”

Mirian pointed out that, “We should recognize that human security supersedes state security. To ensure human security, we must start with the fundamental human necessities—like air, which is vital for our survival, and not just any air, but clean air. Following that, we need clean water and food, which relies on healthy soil. These are fundamental to our survival.”

All in all, the Women’s Summit inspired us to be courageous, and own up to our own sky’s-the-limit potential to move mountains. The calling is an awakening from the heart to our primal power already within us. I personally heard many participants say that the Women’s Summit was one of the greatest highlights at EarthX.

Jennifer Hough, internationally bestselling author and coach, expressed so eloquently the power of focus and authenticity: “It’s not about being against what is not wanted. True, authentic leadership is about pointing towards the new direction. Authentic leadership is enrolling, engaging, and inspirational. It inspires us to the doing and to action, based on the heart. This journey unfolds step by step, and by following your true calling, you can harness the momentum that shapes new realities.”



Reflecting on the inspirational moment, Jennifer went on to say, “Based on the powerhouses at this Summit, I can say there’s hope for humanity. These women are the beacons for the healing of humanity and bridging the building for what’s next and I was so proud to be a part of this.”

William Bridge, who partnered with the powerhouse Joan Michelson, envisions the continuation of the Women’s Summit in 2026, not just an event, but a powerful platform to elevate the leadership of women across business, government, media, civil society, and the arts, as the change-makers forging the bold, practical and inclusive solutions for our common future.



“This movement is urgent and essential. As we gather here today, communities across the globe are still reeling from the impacts of climate driven disasters – wildfires, floods, hurricanes. At Global Green (the national organization of Green Cross International) we work shoulder to shoulder with these communities to rebuild. But recovery is not enough. True resilience requires proactive solutions – rooted in equity, innovation, and bipartisan collaboration.”, said Mr. Bridge.

Sustainability, in its truest form, is not merely an environmental concern; it is a profound call to elevate women, inviting them to wield their innate wisdom and creativity in leadership roles that span the global community and every sector. This is empowering humanity to come of age as a civilization.

This equation is the full circle embodiment of our potential as planetary guardians, as an evolving human race. Ultimately, this is about a collective awakening and our spiritual connection to the Earth and Cosmos. The formula for a sustainable world is bringing forth the divine feminine. It is about balance and well-being.

Empowering women to take on leadership roles and as co-creators of our common future aligns us with the most powerful Pachamama, Mother Earth.

This is wide-angle, all-encompassing and holistic. The understanding of balance, relationship and the community of life is something the Indigenous Peoples of the world have always know since time beginning.

Aligned to holistic perspective is the mission of Green Cross, the declaration of the Earth Charter, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, for building a sustainable future.

The EarthX has taken place in this time of continual bad news with wars, suffering and economic chaos propelled by geopolitics. Our human activity is compounded by the climate crisis and natural disasters with catastrophic developments worldwide.

In contrast, being in the US, with a people's movement on the horizon, like a phoenix rising, and the EarthX felt more like a real pioneer’s movement, like a revolutionary movement of consciousness to prepare for the future, for what is to come. There, in the many forums I saw environmental heroes and visionaries. These men and women from diverse fields, entrepreneurs, investors, producers, artists, diplomats, were like a mot pole of new existential thinking in the fight to save our planet and the future where the 2025 EarthX took on a more serious tone, in response to what is at stake. In the talks reflections also echoed the cries and suffering from the wars, and our longing for more peaceful world.

Then it struck me there at EarthX, a reflection of the ebb and flow axiom of life, like a spiraling serpent. In a time when we are pulled down at rock bottom in inertia by a wave of extreme negativity I saw my fellow humans at the EarthX working away, speaking for justice, all points of view, sharing ongoing preparations, innovations, energy-efficient technologies, smart solutions and investments for the future, steadfast to build bridges for a new paradigm for environmental security and a sustainable future.



I reflected on how the work being done during this time will at some point rise and become very powerful when propelled forward in the next wave of ebb and flow. Everything moves forward, and either we go with the flow to the future or we don’t. I say that we, humanity as a whole with men and women together leading the way, go for that collective awakening and catch that wave.

- Tonia Moya

Green Cross International

Many thanks to Trammell Crow, Founder of EarthX, for his tremendous dedication in making this forum possible for the People of Turtle Island, to Rajan Sing, CEO, heading operations.



Photography by Aura Comms and Tonia Moya.