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Renewable Communities Produce Energy, Jobs and Hope

Renewable Communities Produce Energy, Jobs and Hope

Anishinaabe economist and writer Winona LaDuke identifies two types of economies, grounded in different ways of seeing. Speaking in Vancouver recently, she characterized one as an “extreme extractive economy” fed by exploitation of people and nature. The second is a “regenerative economy” based on an understanding of the land and our relationship to it. We […]

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    A Year of Resistance—and Why I’m Hopeful for 2018

    A Year of Resistance—and Why I’m Hopeful for 2018

    By Rachel Cleetus What a year it’s been. The destructive antics of the Trump administration and Congress and a political discourse increasingly polluted by “alternative facts” have frequently made many of us angry, sad and sometimes just plain crazy. Through it all, it’s been inspiring to see a resistance movement gather strength and show its […]

    Grand Canyon Uranium Mining Ban Upheld by Appeals Court

    Grand Canyon Uranium Mining Ban Upheld by Appeals Court

    The Havasupai Tribe and a coalition of conservation groups praised the decision Tuesday by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the Department of the Interior’s 20-year ban on new uranium mining claims across 1 million acres of public lands adjacent to the Grand Canyon. The court ruled that the ban, adopted in […]

    How Trump’s Dismemberment of Bears Ears Was Driven by Racism, Grave Robbery and Mormon Beliefs

    How Trump’s Dismemberment of Bears Ears Was Driven by Racism, Grave Robbery and Mormon Beliefs

    By John Dougherty President Trump‘s visit to Salt Lake City Monday to sign two orders slashing the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments also included a meeting with Mormon religious leaders who shared “Church doctrine” with the president before he signed the controversial proclamations. Trump’s unprecedented, two-million-acre cut in public land protection […]

    Massive Pipeline Leak Shows Why Nebraska Should Reject Keystone XL

    Massive Pipeline Leak Shows Why Nebraska Should Reject Keystone XL

    About 210,000 gallons (5,000 barrels) of oil leaked Thursday from TransCanada’s Keystone oil pipeline near Amherst, South Dakota, drawing fierce outcry from pipeline opponents. The leak, the largest spill to date in South Dakota, comes just days before Nebraska regulators decide on whether its controversial sister project—the Keystone XL (KXL) Pipeline—will go forward. “Enough is […]

    Indigenous Communities Gain Environmental Victory at COP23

    Indigenous Communities Gain Environmental Victory at COP23

    Indigenous communities claimed a victory at COP23 in Bonn Wednesday, as governments acknowledged their leadership role in protecting forests and containing climate change. Despite comprising 370 million of the world’s population and having communal ownership of more than 20 percent of the world’s tropical forest carbon, indigenous groups were sidelined at past international climate talks. […]

    BP Arctic Oil Well Still Leaking, Too Unstable to Shut Down

    BP Arctic Oil Well Still Leaking, Too Unstable to Shut Down

    BP and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials spent the holiday weekend trying to repair a leaking oil well on Alaska’s North Slope. Officials said the well is too unstable to shut down because of frigid temps in the high Arctic, but have released the pressure on one of the main leaks. It appears that 1.5 […]