To many Native Americans, the spring and summer months are known as powwow season–celebratory gatherings in which people come together to dance, sing, socialize, and honor Native cultures. Brittany Anstead and Hayden Hedman, two SNRE students and active members of the Native American Students Association at the University of Michigan, helped organize the 42nd Annual Dance for Mother Earth Pow Wow, taking place April 5th and 6th at Skyline High School. Brittany and Hayden offer up a delightful overview of what the event will entail, including dance contests, a fashion show, and lots of fry bread! Continue reading Dance & Divest for Mother Earth→
Following recent announcements from Unilever and Ferraro stating they would switch to sustainable palm oil sources by 2014, Forest Heroes, a Michigan advocacy group for the protection of Indonesian rainforest, decided it was time to apply extra pressure on Kellogg’s to join their pledge.
Eva Resnick-Day (Forest Heroes organizer, GreenCorps trainee, and two time guest of IHIH) helped organize and lead the rally, and later sat down with Andrea to talk her through the events, Kellogg’s reaction, the subsequent media storm, and what’s up next.
If you’re interested in getting involved in the campaign, or just want to thank Eva for her hard work, please contact her at (eva at greencorps dot org).
Nov. 15, 2013: Learn all about the power of storytelling and how it affects the environmental field.
– Lianne Lefsrud (PhD), post-doctoral fellow at the Erb Institute, studies the power of rhetoric and explains to us how storytelling may hold the key to addressing climate change.
– Brittany Anstead (Sustainable Systems, MS ‘15) hails from the Haliwa-Saponi tribe in North Carolina and shares her own story about helping lead her community towards energy independence.
– What’s in season? Beans, beans, magical beans! Rachel Chadderdon (Fair Food Network) talks to us about one of Michigan’s finest exports: delicious dried legumes!
Nov. 1, 2013: Two passionate activists join us and talk about their work curbing rainforest deforestation in Southeast Asia.
– Eva Resnick-Day, Forest Heroes campaign organizer and Greencorps trainee, returns to the show to update us on the campaign against the massive palm oil farms that are destroying Indonesia’s rainforest.
– Brihannala Morgan, director of the Borneo Project, talks about working with indigenous communities to protect rainforest and land rights. Currently, they’re taking on dam expansion in Malaysian Borneo.
Join us, as we talk fish, hair, toxics, green jobs, energy, environmental justice and more with Michelle Martinez, former UM School of Natural Resources and Environment M.S. student and current organizer with the Sierra Club.
This week we talk Earth Art, Detroit’s Heidelberg Project, liminality, and jam to some stone cold grooves with Beth Diamond.
Beth was a “a landscape theorist, designer and cultural instigator,” Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Michigan, and Lead Project Designer for the Heidelberg Project’s Cultural Village in the Black Bottom District of Detroit. Join us, visit Detroit, make some earth art, be provocative!
