Category: Environment

• Artby - Amy Eisenberg
• Environment
• Human Rights

On the day Americans note their independence from Britain in the year 1776 when slavery officially still existed, I reflect on the words of Frederick Douglass: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick…

• Artby - Rudolph Ryser
• Environment

CWIS Study Preliminary Findings The world’s indigenous peoples who are reliant on natural foods and medicines are at great risk due to growing CO2 levels in the planet’s atmosphere. The…

• Environment

It’s no secret that releasing massive segments of Bear’s Ears and Staircase from monument designation also releases restrictions on resource extraction. The monuments exist within a geographical region known as…

• Environment

This month the Trump administration began the process to make good on a campaign promise: to overturn the Obama-era national monument designation of Bear’s Ears and Grand-Staircase Escalante in southern…

• Artby - Rudolph Ryser
• Environment
• Health
• Human Rights

Seventy years after the first nuclear bomb detonation in 1945 as of July 2015 indigenous peoples’ territories and peoples remain at greatest health and environmental risk to radioactive and toxic…

• Artby - Rudolph Ryser
• Environment
• FW Geo-Politics
• Human Rights
• Law & Justice

My colleague Heidi Bruce writes in “Paved with Bad Intentions” a piece recounting the Ñatho (Otomî) efforts to stop construction of the Toluca-Naucalpan Super Highway by the Mexican government, “lasting…

• Artby - Rudolph Ryser
• Environment
• Food Security
• Health
• Traditional Knowledge

Wild Berries for Winter Health By Elise Krohn Elise@cwis.org CWIS Fellow for Native Plants and Nutrition We are in the thick of winter. It has been cold and rainy for…

• Artby - Rudolph Ryser
• Economy
• Environment
• Political Economy

Fourth World peoples throughout the world generally do not benefit from state economies that measure their economic future using the Gross Domestic Product (GDP – production minus cost) and productivity….

• Artby - Jay Taber
• Environment
• FW Geo-Politics

In To Make a World, Part II: The Art of Creating a State, Jonas Staal observes that in contrast to the mass-performance of the French, which was staged to reinforce…

• Artby - Rudolph Ryser
• Environment
• Traditional Knowledge

People are animals too, but too frequently human beings chose to step out of the chain of biological and cultural relationships that make the planet work more smoothly. Conventional scientists…