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Natalie Isaacs was born in 1961 in Brisbane, Australia. She is the founder of One Million Women. One Million Women is an environmental organization that is dedicated to empowering women to make climate-friendly lifestyle choices in order to mitigate climate change. Her goal is to recruit millions of women around the world to commit to this lifestyle change. For creating the organization One Million Women, Natalie Isaacs has achieved awards, such as the Conservationist of the Year in 2017. She has also published a book and is writing a second one.

Early life
When Natalie Isaacs was thirteen, her home was destroyed by the 1974 Brisbane flood. Once she was older, she traveled to London due to the suggestion of her father, where she studied aromatherapy. She found herself inspired by the Body Shop, and she decided to create a cosmetics brand. She was in her mid-twenties when she created her cosmetics line. The brand, originally called Natalie Jane was later renamed Natalie. She created 10 beauty products. She left London and returned to Newport, Australia. During this time, she met the man that would become her husband, Murray Hogarth, a former environmental journalist who since has been working for the environmental company, Ecos Corporation. They have had four children together; Isaac, Jacob, Shea, and Bronte.

One Million Women
Natalie Isaacs got the idea for the organization in 2007, but it wasn’t until 2009 that the organization came into fruition. The initial formation of One Million Women and its subsequent early years started as a small environmental grassroots organization. It wasn’t until 2012, five years after One Million Women was formed that Natalie expanded her organization to the internet, reaching out to people via social media. The organization is largely focused on individual change. The women signing up for One Million women pledge to commit themselves to making environmentally friendly choices and lowering the amount of CO2 they produce by one ton within a year. To give women guidance on how to achieve this goal, Natalie Isaacs offers suggestions such as refraining from buying products with plastic and shopping at places with environmentally conscious business practices.

Motivation and philosophy
Natalie’s original driving moment that caused her to make more environmentally conscious choices was a simple act of turning off light bulbs to conserve energy. This occurred in 2007. From her efforts, she watched her power bill decline in cost, which led her to explore other environmentally friendly options. She started taking steps to remove wasted food from her household, so they would eat everything they bought instead of discarding leftovers. Seeing the result of her efforts, she realized her potential as an individual to make an impact on the environment. She wanted to spread that same feeling of empowerment to other women around the world. Natalie explains that the majority of decisions that affect a house’s carbon footprint are made by women, particularly in wealthier countries. She also says women are disproportionately the ones affected by climate change. These facts drove her to call her organization ‘One Million Women.’ She believes that if millions of women united to make environmentally friendly choices, progress could be made in mitigating climate change.

Published works
Natalie Isaacs has written two books having to do with climate change, specifically informing women how to make individual changes to fight climate change. Currently, there is only one published right now, Every Woman’s Guide to Saving the Planet, which was released in January 2021. The second one, Right Here Right Now - How women can lead the way in the climate emergency, will be published in early 2023.

Awards
Natalie Isaacs won an award as the 2017 Australian Geographer Conservationist of the Year. In 2013, she received an award at the United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change for the Momentum for Change Award.