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Native Voice Joy Harjo Draws On Tribal Myth & History In Celebrating Nature

Ethan Goffman climate, female, feminism, feminist, glacier, glaciologist, Indian, Joy Harjo, M Jackson, native, perspective, poet, poetry, poetry-and-planet, research, study

Poet Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee-Creek Nation, draws on tribal myth and history to celebrate the natural world and humanity’s role within it.

Currents

Spiritual & Historic Roots Spur Tribes to Fight for Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante

Ethan Goffman American, Bears Ears, Indian, Monument, native, Trump

The Trump administration decision to take away protections at Bears Ears is troublesome for Native Americans with ancient connections to the land.

House & Home

Autumn Gardening Tips

Lois Crouse autumn, bulb, bulbs, drought, drought tolerant, fall, flower, flowers, frost, garden, gardening, leaves, native, plant, planting, plants, seed, seeds, tips, tolerant

Autumn is the best time to plant bulbs, wildflowers, and shrubs. It is also a great time to fertilize your garden in an environmentally responsible way.

Kandi Mossett of Indigenous Environmental Network

Justice for All

Indigenous Environmental Network’s Kandi Mossett on Fighting Pipelines, Warming

Ethan Goffman activist, Dakota Access, fossil fuels, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, Indian, indigenous, Indigenous Environmental Network, Kandi Mossett, keystone, native, natural gas, oil, pipeline, podcast, protest, shale, XL

Kandi Mossett of the Indigenous Environmental Network talks about how and why native tribes are fighting the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipeline projects…

Soap Box

Senators Call Out Army Corps on DAPL

Chase Iron Eyes #NoDAPL, American, DAPL, Indian, keystone, Lakota, native, pipeline, Sioux, Standing Rock

The Standing Rock Sioux’s Chase Iron Eyes is glad the Senate is finally looking into Army Corps of Engineers’ misconduct on DAPL…

House & Home

Backyard Project Ideas That Have a Low Environmental Impact

Megan Wild bakyard, gardening, green, land, native, native plants, neighborhood, plant, project, upgrade, wildlife

Backyard Project Ideas: Upgrade your little slice of heaven with these green backyard project techniques that anybody can accomplish….

EarthTalk

Environmental Heroes LaDuke, McKibben and Fox Inspire Millions To Take Action

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer activism, activist, Aldo Leopold, Bernie Sanders, Bill McKibben, book, Dakota Access Pipeline, DAPL, documentary, eco, End of Nature, environment, environmental, film, Gasland, Henry David Thoreau, hero, heroes, inspiration, Josh Fox, LaDuke, native, Ojibwe, Our Revolution, Rachel Carson, rights, Sand County Almanac, Silent Spring, tribal, tribe, tribes, Walden, Winona

Environmental heroes like Winona LaDuke, Bill McKibben and Josh Fox have inspired millions of people to take action on behalf of protecting the environment.

Justice for All

Standing with the Standing Rock: A Peak Inside Oceti Sakowin Camp

Remy camp, civil disobedience, environmental, Indian, indigenous, native, Native American, Oceti Sakowin, peaceful, pipeline, protest, racism, right, rights, Sioux, social justice, Standing Rock

5,000 Native American activists have gathered at Oceti Sakowin camp in a peaceful protest near the proposed site of the DAPL pipeline project threatening the water of the Standing Rock Sioux of North Dakota.

Bear at Anan Creek, Tongass National Forest, Alaska. Credit: USFS.

Wild & Wooly

Saving the Tongass National Forest

Ethan Goffman Alaska, alaska forest service, Earthjustice, national forest, native, Native American, Natural Resources Defense Council, NRDC, Organized Village of Kake, rainforest, salmon, Southeast, temperate, Tongass, wildlife

Although it often feels like environmentalists are purveyors of catastrophe, stories of saving precious wilderness abound. One of these is Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the largest relatively intact rainforest in North America which makes up about 14 percent of the global temperate rainforest…