Tag Archive for: climate

How I Finally Moved Toward Solar Energy
It took me about two weeks to wade through enough information to understand the value of solar. By then I had run out of excuses to not make a decision to move ahead.

Lobbying for Urban Environmental Justice
How one North Minneapolis woman is tackling city development around water waste, building awareness about consumer choices, and encouraging biking as transportation

This Is Personal
A few years ago, my friend and I had a conversation about…

Living on the Red Road
This is something we have always known and valued as Native people — how to only take what we need from the environment around us.

Healthy Self, Healthy Planet
The moment we say, ‘we don’t need this bug, we don’t need this plant,’ the system starts to weaken. If this happens again and again, the system collapses. Every time we have excluded a person or group of people, it has been at our own peril. We will have a viable future only when diverse knowledge, skills, attitudes, and cultural understanding are brought to the table.

A Wild and Alien World
Ecosystem content is made possible by Organic Lawns by…

Women’s Congress for Future Generations
Catalyzing actions on climate change, racial justice and community

Akilah Sanders-Reed: Youth climate intervenor
The voice and the moral clarity that young people can bring is what got us a seat at the table.

Risking Arrest to Protect the Environment
Ecosystem content is made possible by Organic Lawns by…

What the monarchs tell us
Butterflies are in danger and we can help, says University of Minnesota's Karen Oberhauser

2014 Changemaker: Ann Manning
Organizing a national Women's Congress for Future Generations advocating for environmental change and economic justice

Future First and the Women’s Congress
"In our political ecology, the whole register of women's voices is missing. We are giving a chance for women's voices to be raised."


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