Can the Resilience Movement Learn from Thacker Pass?

By Paul Feather, Resilience.org

If there were a time to allocate some of your resilience work toward the global and national scene, that time might be now, and the place might be Thacker Pass.

Activists Occupy Site of Proposed Lithium Mine in Nevada

By Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, Macska Moksha Press

Thacker Pass is the site of a proposed lithium mine that would impact nearly 5700 acres—close to nine square miles—and which would include a giant open pit mine over two square miles in size, a sulfuric acid processing plant, and piles of tailings.