Posts Tagged ‘Alaska Native’
Chatting “Newtok” and climate justice with Patagonia
Join us for an extra special Geography of Hope conversation with the filmmakers behind the new film “Newtok.”
Read MoreDiscovering myself while finding true north
Molly Rettig is the author of “Finding True North,” a journey back in time to discover what Alaska was like before the gold rush, and the ensuing resource booms that reshaped Alaska forever.
Read MoreYou can’t drill for oil without insurance
A major insurer is stepping away from risky fossil fuel projects that threaten sacred and pristine Arctic land.
Read MoreThe importance of Indigenous representation
Join us for a conversation with Princess Daazhraii Johnson, a Neets’aii Gwich’in writer, director, producer, actor and advocate.
Read MoreIPCC Report, Part II: The climate crisis is here — so now what?
Overshadowed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, on February 28, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the second part of its Sixth Assessment Report.
Read MoreTrump sold off the Arctic Refuge — Congress must end this boondoggle
Republicans opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling in 2017, but Congress still has the power and the opportunity to reverse this disastrous Trump-era policy.
Read MoreA thousand trails home, with Seth Kantner
Author Seth Kantner shares stories from his new book, a stunningly lyrical firsthand account of a life spent hunting, studying and living alongside caribou in wild Alaska.
Read MoreAmerica’s climate forest must be protected
If the Biden administration expects to be the climate leader it promised, the nation’s forests must remain protected from further extraction and destruction.
Read MoreThe slide show that changed history
On the anniversary of President Biden halting all oil and gas activities in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, author Finis Dunaway revisits the unlikely activist who helped build a grassroots protection movement one slide show at a time.
Read MoreWilderness and traditional Indigenous beliefs
Indigenous people had no word for Wilderness. What are the implications of this increasingly noted fact?
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