On March 13, WECAN was in Washington D.C. outside the Army Corps of Engineers offices with the Indigenous Women’s Treaty Alliance to deliver a petition calling on the Army Corps of Engineers

On March 13, WECAN was in Washington D.C. outside the Army Corps of Engineers offices with the Indigenous Women’s Treaty Alliance to deliver a petition calling on the Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a robust environmental review of the Line 5 crude oil pipeline reroute.

Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline has continued to operate illegally through the Bad River Band’s land in northern Wisconsin and the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan. Despite strong opposition, Enbridge is moving forward with a proposed reroute and expansion of the pipeline. The existing Line 5 pipeline must be shut down and decommissioned, not simply re-routed and expanded. At a time of climate crisis, Line 5 is putting at risk sacred ecosystems, clean drinking water, treaty territories, and our global climate!

The petition was delivered by members of the Indigenous Women’s Treaty Alliance, alongside allies from WECAN, Sierra Club, and the broader community. Since 2022, WECAN has been honored to facilitate the Indigenous Women’s Treaty Alliance, a group of Indigenous women leaders from the Great Lakes region.

🌎Today on #EarthDay, WECAN is launching a new resource in the fight for environmental justice and support for women land defenders in the LAC region!

🌎Today on #EarthDay, WECAN is launching a new resource in the fight for environmental justice and support for women land defenders in the LAC region! The "Escazú Agreement Toolkit for Women Land Defenders and Frontline Communities" equips women to navigate their country's laws to achieve the protections of the Escazú Agreement. One of the most important things we can do to protect and defend Mother Earth is to stand up and support women land defenders globally!

Find the toolkits and more resources here → https://www.wecaninternational.org/escazu

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🌎¡Hoy WECAN lanza un nuevo recurso en la lucha por la justicia ambiental y el apoyo a las defensoras de la tierra en la región de ALC! La "Caja de Herramientas del Acuerdo de Escazú para Defensoras de la Tierra y Comunidades de Primera Línea" equipa a las mujeres para navegar por las leyes de su país para lograr las protecciones del Acuerdo de Escazú.

Find the toolkits and more resources here → https://www.wecaninternational.org/escazu-es

During this virtual event at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), Indigenous youth leaders from around the world gathered to share their strategies and solutions for addressing

During this virtual event at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), Indigenous youth leaders from around the world gathered to share their strategies and solutions for addressing fossil fuel extraction, deforestation and the climate crisis on Thursday, April 18th, 2024.

Drawing upon Indigenous knowledge, panelists discussed efforts to defend Indigenous rights, champion self-determination, and promote climate justice to forge a path toward a healthy and just climate future.

Speakers Included:
✨ Pema Wangmo Lama (Mugum), Program Coordinator, National Indigenous Women’s Federation (NIWF), Nepal
✨ Morgan Brings Plenty (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe), Environmental Justice Activist, Digital Organizing Fellow, Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), Turtle Island/USA
✨ Judy Kipkenda (Ogiek), Founder of Koibatek Ogiek Women and Youth Network (KOWYN), Kenya
✨ Sheelah Bearfoot (Chiricahua Apache), MHS Environmental Justice Advocate, Turtle Island/USA
✨ Elle Rávdná Näkkäläjärvi (Sámi), Chair of the Sámi Parliament’s Youth Council, Norway
✨ Carole Monture (Kanienkehá:ka/Mohawk), Climate Leadership Coordinator, Indigenous Climate Action (ICA), Turtle Island
✨ Talia Landry (Mashpee Wampanoag), Youth Advisor for Mashpee NEA and President of the Wampanoag Community Development Corporation, Turtle Island

Indigenous knowledge is a climate solution! At the epicenter of massive fracking in Oklahoma, Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca Nation) Environmental Ambassador, WECAN Earthen Lodge Project Coordinator

Indigenous knowledge is a climate solution! At the epicenter of massive fracking in Oklahoma, Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca Nation) Environmental Ambassador, WECAN Earthen Lodge Project Coordinator and Board Member, and her community are leading a renewed approach to food sovereignty and climate solutions with the building of the Earthen Lodge, originating from Indigenous wisdom and knowledge of the Ponca Nation.

Watch and share this video and support climate justice in action!

The Earthen Lodge is stewarded by the Pa'tha'ta Women's Society in the Ponca community, as they seek seventh generation survival and beyond for their Nation in the midst of the escalating climate crisis. WECAN is honored to work in collaboration on this project, which is supporting community resiliency in the face of extreme fossil fuel extraction and ongoing climate disruption. The Lodge will provide safe harbor in times of climate disaster; offer space for cultural ceremonies and teachings; and create healthy and sustainable food and medicines for current and future generations in a region where the water and soil has been poisoned by Big Oil for decades.

�Learn more about the Earthen Lodge Project by visiting our website: https://www.wecaninternational.org/earthen-lodge-project

Fewer than 25 red wolves remain in the wild. 5 were killed this year. We can stop this now by building a wildlife crossing.

This spring a two-year-old endangered red wolf named Muppet

Fewer than 25 red wolves remain in the wild. 5 were killed this year. We can stop this now by building a wildlife crossing.

This spring a two-year-old endangered red wolf named Muppet was killed by a vehicle strike on North Carolina’s Highway 64. He died not far from where his father was killed just six months earlier. And he was the fifth red wolf to be killed by a vehicle strike in the last year.

These are devastating losses. Fewer than 25 red wolves remain in the wild. Help secure a safer future for red wolves by joining the campaign to build a wildlife crossing in the heart of their home in North Carolina.

A generous donor has already pledged to contribute a landmark $2 million match challenge for a Red Wolf Wildlife Crossing Fund — but we must raise another $2 million in committed matching funds by Aug. 31 to secure the federal funds to build it now! Help us.

Link: https://www.biologicaldiversity.org

What would it feel like to live in a world where our built environment was as elegant as nature's designs? What if our living and working spaces nurtured our human communities and quality of life?

What would it feel like to live in a world where our built environment was as elegant as nature's designs? What if our living and working spaces nurtured our human communities and quality of life? Architect and designer Jason F. McLennan takes the revolution from the heart of nature and the human heart into our built environment. He is shifting the fateful civilizational inflection point we face - from degradation to regeneration - from fear to love. 


Featuring Jason F. McLennan (http://mclennan-design.com/about/jason-f-mclennan/) , one of the world’s most influential visionaries in contemporary architecture and green building, is a highly sought-out designer, consultant and thought leader. A winner of Engineering News Record’s National Award of Excellence and of the prestigious Buckminster Fuller Prize (which was, during its 10-year trajectory, known as “the planet’s top prize for socially responsible design”), Jason has been showered with such accolades as “the ‘Wayne Gretzky’ of the green building industry and a “World Changer” (by GreenBiz magazine).




Resources


Jason McLennan Keynote Bioneers 2022 – From Reconciliation to Regeneration (https://bioneers.org/jason-mclennan-reconciliation-regeneration-zstf2206/)


Deep Community Resilience: Preparing for the Coming Age, Place-By-Place | Jason F. McLennan (https://bioneers.org/deep-community-resilience-preparing-for-the-coming-age-place-by-place-jason-f-mclennan-ze0z2204/)


Child-Centered Planning: A New Specialized Pattern Language Tool | Jason F. McLennan (https://bioneers.org/child-centered-planning-a-new-specialized-pattern-language-tool-jason-f-mclennan-ze0z2203/)


Visit the episode page for transcript and more information (https://bioneers.org/designing-regenerative-future-love-jason-mclennan/) .


This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage (https://bioneers.org/bioneers-radio/)  to learn more.

Visionary clean energy entrepreneur Danny Kennedy explores the promise and challenges of the epic civilizational transition to renewable energy. Without doubt, the shift has hit the fan, but will

Visionary clean energy entrepreneur Danny Kennedy explores the promise and challenges of the epic civilizational transition to renewable energy. Without doubt, the shift has hit the fan, but will we make the transition in time to avert complete climate breakdown? Danny Kennedy says we can - and the real heroes and sheroes will be millions of clean energy entrepreneurs and startups, in partnership with the determined leadership of Indigenous Peoples arising worldwide.

New, democratized access to powerful analytical and mapping tools is transforming our understanding of the natural world – and, with it, our ability to conserve, protect, and restore our

New, democratized access to powerful analytical and mapping tools is transforming our understanding of the natural world – and, with it, our ability to conserve, protect, and restore our collective home, the biosphere.


In this program, we explore the boundless possibilities of digital maps and platforms with Rebecca Moore, visionary founder of Google Earth Outreach and Google Earth Engine.


This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the Bioneers Radio and Podcast homepage (https://bioneers.org/bioneers-radio/) to learn more.

Forests have long occupied a fertile landscape in the human imagination. Places of mystery and magic – of wildness and wisdom – of vision and dreaming. Yet beyond mythic realms of

Forests have long occupied a fertile landscape in the human imagination. Places of mystery and magic – of wildness and wisdom – of vision and dreaming. Yet beyond mythic realms of imagination, we’ve largely treated forests as inert physical resources to satisfy human needs and desires. The main operative science behind this commodification has been market science – how to extract maximum resources and profits.


Suzanne Simard is a revolutionary researcher who is transforming the science of forest ecology and coming full circle to the wisdom held by First Peoples and traditional land-based cultures from time immemorial. The story Simard is uncovering can change our story for how we live on Earth and with each other, for the long haul.
Featuring


Suzanne Simard, Professor of Forestry at the University of British Columbia, is an expert in the synergies and complexities of forests, as well as the development of sustainable forest stewardship practices. Her groundbreaking research focuses on the relationships between plants, microbes, soils, carbon, nutrients, and water that underpin the adaptability of ecosystems, particularly the below-ground fungal networks that connect trees and facilitate interplant communication. Learn more about Suzanne Simard and her work at her website. (https://suzannesimard.com/)
Explore More


Dispatches From the Mother Trees (https://bioneers.org/suzanne-simard-dispatches-from-mother-trees-zstf2112/) , Suzanne Simard’s keynote address to the 2021 Bioneers Conference, in which she discusses the dire global consequences of logging old-growth rainforests, and nature-based solutions that combine Western science and Indigenous knowledge for preserving and caring for these invaluable forest ecosystems for future generations.


Lessons from the Underground (https://bioneers.org/lessons-from-the-underground-panel-zstf2112/) , a panel discussion from the 2021 Bioneers Conference featuring Suzanne Simard as well as Anne Biklé and David R. Montgomery, a wife and husband team of scientific researchers whose groundbreaking work on the microbial life of soil has revealed its crucial importance to human wellbeing and survival. Moderated by Bioneers’ Restorative Food Systems Director Arty Mangan. 


Intelligence in Nature (https://bioneers.org/intelligence-in-nature-media-collection/) , a deep-dive resource featuring leading experts in this burgeoning field.


What We Owe Our Trees (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/29/what-we-owe-our-trees) , an article by Jill Lepore in the New Yorker.






This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage (https://bioneers.org/bioneers-radio/)  to learn more.

As a backlash against LGBTQ rights escalates into an authoritarian crusade, acclaimed author and queer activist Taylor Brorby asks how we can still be fighting this battle? As a writer addressing

As a backlash against LGBTQ rights escalates into an authoritarian crusade, acclaimed author and queer activist Taylor Brorby asks how we can still be fighting this battle? As a writer addressing the fossil fuel industry’s acceleration in the midst of climate chaos, Taylor is forced to choose between the existential crises of the assaults on nature and on LGBTQ people. It’s all connected, he says, as he seeks to reconcile nature, culture, diversity, and a sense of belonging.