Health
As a Native American woman and recovering alcoholic I am grateful for Whiteclay, Nebraska for the simple reason that it keeps the disease of alcoholism and addiction right
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June 5, 2012 // 0 Comments
We’ve heard an awful lot in the last few years about what’s happening to our food before it arrives on our plate. But little focus has been paid to what’s happening to
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June 4, 2012 // 0 Comments
Native and Occupy protester have brought to a halt a hearing by the National Energy Board that environmentalists feared would bring oilsands oil to Ontario and eventually the
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May 24, 2012 // 0 Comments
Shell plans to expand its dirty energy destruction in the Arctic and Canada tarsands, after leaving behind a trail of oil spills and destruction in
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May 23, 2012 // 0 Comments
As a teenager two decades ago, Ruth Buendía saw the Asháninka communities in Peru’s central Amazonian lowlands torn apart by violence as the Shining Path guerrillas
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May 15, 2012 // 0 Comments
The first voice you hear in the new documentary Last Call at the Oasis is Erin Brockovich’s — the famed water justice advocate whom Julia Roberts portrayed on the
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May 15, 2012 // 0 Comments
Brown, rolling plains that seem to stretch on to eternity are suddenly broken by the brilliant blue of Lake Titicaca. The lake, which sits on the border between Peru and
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May 14, 2012 // 0 Comments
hanks to factory farming’s massive economies of scale, a lot of food today is disgusting or cruel or disgusting and cruel. Just when people stopped talking about
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May 10, 2012 // 0 Comments
There is a certain North American arrogance that our ‘first world’ privilege will buffer us from the effects of climate change, that ‘other’ countries
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May 9, 2012 // 0 Comments
Reliable, clean water will soon be available to the Navajo Nation where 40 percent of families haul their water in barrels from pumping stations. The Department of the
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May 8, 2012 // 0 Comments