Trudeau’s Six Unanswered Questions on Kinder Morgan Expansion
In early November, the Trudeau government tabled a ministerial panel report on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project proposed by Kinder Morgan, a Houston-based energy corporation.
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Mexico’s Indigenous Groups Start Telecom Co-op after Being Refused Service
The licenses enable members of the Mixe, Mixteco, and Zapoteco communities to form their own cooperatively-owned mobile cellular telephone network allowing 356 municipalities in the states of Chiapas, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Puebla, and Veracruz access to mobile services and the Internet.
Healthy Snack Invented on Indian Reservation Now Faces Stiff Corporate Competition
The Pine Ridge Indian reservation is not the first place you’d look for good news about creating a new kind of economy that works for everyone.
Indigenous Truth Rising: A Journey for Climate Justice
This is a story of justice – environmental, social, racial, economic, and climate.
At the Beginning of the Pipeline
For over 500 years native peoples in the Americas have fought for their homes against people from far away lands. Now, in Alberta, Canada, they are fighting against a gooey, black substance that sits underground: the oil sands.
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Putting Moral Philosophy Back into Economics
But let us retrace our steps to consider what a lot of people are unaware of – economics was originally considered to be a branch of moral philosophy.
Experiencing Traditional Community Resilience: Talking Resilience with Helena Norberg-Hodge
There is definitely a sense of trying to repay a debt and I’m very, very, keen that that should happen.
What Is a Non-Indigenous Person?
At the risk of over simplifiying all indigenous people belong to particular places. In contrast non indigenous people belong no where in particular – although places may belong to them…
Transition meets the Circle Way
Back in July, participants from Sweden and Denmark gathered for the annual Circle Way camp hosted by Manitonquat, a Native American who bases his teachings on traditional tribal ways.
Resisting the city
In the face of rapid urban expansion and environmental degradation, the people of Usme, a periurban town of Bogotá, have mobilised to protect the local environment and strengthen community autonomy over the neighbourhood.
More out of Africa
Few people, except the most extreme global warming sceptics, can deny that there is a current global environmental crisis, of which Africa is a part.
“Non-Indigenous Culture”: Implications of a Historical Anomaly
There has never been a non-indigenous civilization on planet Earth before.
