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Honor With Action: 10 Ways to be an Ally to Indigenous Peoples
In the US, Indigenous Peoples’ Day began as a counter-celebration to Columbus Day, and it has grown in both popularity and adoption in recent years. But the holiday is simply…
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Big Oil is fueling the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Today, May 5th, is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). There is a disturbing legacy of violence against Indigenous women and children. It began…
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Research Brief: Environmental Justice Across Industrial Sectors
A PDF version of this briefing is available here. Introduction The EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) provides data to the public regarding toxic air and water emissions from a large…
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8 Black Environmentalists You Need To Know
We cannot talk about environmental justice without addressing racial justice. Throughout history, communities of color have been disproportionally impacted by climate change and access to environmental resources, pollution, toxic soil…
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Overpopulation and Environmentalism
by Dakota Schee and Varsha Nair You may have heard people say, “we wouldn’t be in a climate crisis if we had fewer people on Earth.” The overpopulation narrative is an…
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Engaging our Sovereignty for Indigenous Liberation
I’ve been trying to wrap my mind around everything that has been happening this year, maybe even the last 20 years. By definition, I’m a Native American male, constantly mistaken…
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Standing Together in Hope
We are in a really difficult moment. Many of us don’t have the words to express the roller coaster of emotions we have been on these past few weeks, let…
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Protect Indigenous sovereignty—demand profiteers defund the Coastal GasLink pipeline
When I found out that Kohlberg Kravitz Roberts (KKR) was acquiring a significant equity interest in the Coastal GasLink pipeline that is trying to invade the sacred ground of my…
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An ecology reading list for self-isolating environmentalists
The social isolation response to the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in our lifetimes. Perhaps not since the economic depression of the 1930s and World War II has the human family…
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2019: A Landmark Year for Climate Justice
Thanks to you and millions of others, 2019 has been a milestone year in the fight for climate justice. Grassroots power and a growing movement have irrevocably shifted what is…