Week of Events
“Tillie Black Bear: A Legacy of Resistance That Lives On” Documentary Screening
“Tillie Black Bear: A Legacy of Resistance That Lives On” Documentary Screening
Please join the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center (NIWRC) for a live screening of our new documentary: "Tillie Black Bear: A Legacy of Resistance That Lives On," in honor of Tillie Black Bear Women Are Sacred Day, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and Tillie's ten-year memorial.
Empower Hour: Exposing the CO Oil & Gas Industry’s Free Pass to Pollute
Empower Hour: Exposing the CO Oil & Gas Industry’s Free Pass to Pollute
How venting and flaring continue to take a toll on clean air and our climate and what is being done about it. Jeremy is a specialist in campaign strategy and leveraging the law to drive social and environmental change, Jeremy Nichols is particularly fond of the Clean Air Act and the law's ability to empower citizens and communities to successfully confront polluters. Jeremy currently works as a Senior Advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity's Environmental Health Program.
Expanding Transmission Capacity with Grid Enhancing Technologies
Expanding Transmission Capacity with Grid Enhancing Technologies
We’ll be joined by Tim Stelzer and Eli Asher of LineVision who will provide an overview of GETs, the capabilities they offer, their current state-of-play in the U.S., and highlight case studies of dynamic line rating (DLR) technology. They will wrap up with a discussion of how legislation and regulation can play a role in ensuring the technology is used cost-effectively.
The Healing Wisdom of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
The Healing Wisdom of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
In October, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers is celebrating their 20th anniversary at a conference called, “We Are All Related: Unearthing the Roots of our Shared Humanity.” In this webinar, we will be honored to hear from one of the Grandmothers, Mona Polacca, whose Native identities are Havasupai, Hopi and Tewa.
Neonics in Colorado, the Toxic Truth: The Pesticides Threatening Bees, Birds and Our Health
Neonics in Colorado, the Toxic Truth: The Pesticides Threatening Bees, Birds and Our Health
Join PPAN, ABC and NRDC for a talk on the science behind threats posed by neonicotinoid pesticides (“neonics”) to pollinators, birds, and our own health.
Naturalist Chat, A Bird Q&A
Naturalist Chat, A Bird Q&A
Do you wonder where your backyard birds have gone? Do you have questions about bird feeding? Need help identifying a bird? Then join us for Naturalist Chat, A Bird Q&A, and share the bird questions that have been chirping in the back of your mind!
Beyond white privilege: white people’s stake in the fight against MAGA with Heather McGhee
Beyond white privilege: white people’s stake in the fight against MAGA with Heather McGhee
Join SURJ in conversation with Heather McGhee, NYT best selling author of “The Sum of Us” and leading political thinker on race and the economy, to explore white people’s stake in fighting MAGA– and how we can take action to organize white people around their stake in fights for justice.
Why the Gaza Conflict is now a Regional and soon to be Global Conflict
Why the Gaza Conflict is now a Regional and soon to be Global Conflict
Dr. Mazin Butros Qumsiyeh is a Palestinian scientist and author, founder and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History (PMNH) and the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS) at Bethlehem University where he teaches. Over the course of his career, he has published well over 150 scientific papers on topics ranging from cultural heritage to biodiversity. He has authored several books including Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle.