Posts Tagged ‘Energy’

Women’s Earth Alliance, Art/Design Direction Across these long empty roads, amidst red mesa plateaus and small desert towns, I hold my camera in hand as my mind’s fingers trace the edges of horizons lined with rock formations that seem to have been intentionally carved out by Nature’s hands. Every now and then I spot rural…

  In this magnificent southwest desert, a person cannot help but notice rocks and boulders. Peculiar stone outcroppings and plateaus highlight the striking landscape. There is also a mysterious sense that stories are written in the layered strata of the ancient mountains. We are four days in on our southwest journey with WEA’s Advocacy Delegation:…

By: Joanna Levitt, WEA Advocacy Delegate, Director, International Accountability Project (IAP) There are obvious, striking similarities between the issues being faced on the Navajo Nation and the community struggles IAP supports in Asia and Latin America for development justice. IAP aims to increasingly facilitate exchange between our Global South colleagues and grassroots counterparts in other…

Stacy Ho, WEA Avocacy DelegatePolicy Associate, Green For All Sometimes I find myself talking about sustainable economic development as the “new thing,” the idea that will distinguish the future from the past. But sustainable economic development is not new to indigenous communities. As I participate in the Women’s Earth Alliance Sacred Earth Advocacy Delegation to…

WEA Advocacy DelegateThe refrigerator in my hotel room hums and two lamps illuminate my fully charged MacBook as I type these words on the first evening of WEA’s Fall 2010 Advocacy Delegation, Promoting Energy Justice on the Navajo Nation. A weighty glass jar of clean, blessedly drinkable water sits close at hand… water I filled…