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Call on Idaho Senators to support the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho and a solution to pollution from massive mountain top removal coal mines in Canada. An indigenous led international watershed board could lead the way!
The Kootenai Tribe of Idaho has joined a group of First Nations and Tribes in calling on Canadian officials to address the impact of industrial mining on waterways in historic tribal lands.
Stewart Udall: The Politics of Beauty -- a new and beautiful film that examines the life of a man who fostered the dawn of the American environmental movement. As Secretary of the Interior in the 1960's, Udall laid the groundwork for some of the most important environmental laws and policies that we rely on today.
He was the first public official to speak out about global warming and was known for his ability to work with adversaries to accomplish important goals. He was responsible for the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act which protected the Middle Fork Salmon River in Idaho (a big-time favorite of mine) and others.
This wonderful film will screen at the Department of Interior in Washington DC on January 31st, 2pm. I'm honored to be part of the team for this film. Please join us in DC, and share with your friends and colleagues!
Stewart Udall & The Politics of Beauty For more on how to watch this feature length documentary go to www.StewartUdallFilm.org
By Jennifer Ekstrom Reader Contributor We have some pretty amazing wild spaces up here in North Idaho. Massive lakes. Sparkling rivers. Diverse landscapes ranging from rainforests to rocky crags. And peat bogs. Yes, peat...
https://sandpointreader.com/coolin-development-threatens-rare-peat-bog-at-priest-lake/
By Jennifer Ekstrom Reader Contributor We have some pretty amazing wild spaces up here in North Idaho. Massive lakes. Sparkling rivers. Diverse landscapes ranging from rainforests to rocky crags. And peat bogs. Yes, peat...
We're delighted to be on the team for the film, Stewart Udall and the Politics of Beauty. The film highlights the legacy of Stewart Udall, a visionary who worked tirelessly for the expansion of federal public lands, national parks, national monuments, recreation areas, historic sites, and wildlife refuges.
He was also an effective leader fighting greed, and racial and social injustice.
As a Congressman and then as Secretary of the Interior, his example of getting important work done through camaraderie can inspire us all. In these polarized times, his example is needed more than ever.
To finish the film, we launched a Kickstarter campaign. Please check it out and if the mood strikes you, please support and choose your reward.
John de Graaf's feature-length documentary on the inspirational life, achievements, and lasting environmental impact of Stewart Udall.
Quick Action!
Help stop the Coastal Gaslink pipeline from being built in northern British Columbia, across unceded Wet’suwet’en territory. This pipeline and associated Kitimat Port development would be the most expensive fracked gas development in Canadian history.
It would lock in decades of increased fracking and exporting of volatile gas through dangerous and sensitive waterways. Increased exports will line the pockets of a few fat cats and leave communities and First Nations high and dry, with all the risk and pollution to deal with for decades.
Join the action! It takes just 5 seconds. Thanks to Stand.earth!
Wetsuweten Strong
The Coastal Gaslink fracked gas pipeline is financed by 27 banks. Over 100 non-governmental organizations have demanded that these banks defund the Coastal Gaslink pipeline. Sign this petition to join them and pressure these banks to stop funding the violation of Indigenous rights and defund climate...
Wow, look at those colors! It’s a concerning stormwater outfall near a sewage treatment plant into Lake Pend Oreille.
Find out more in the upcoming film for Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper …
Working with .fullerton on this important piece that illuminates the impacts of under-regulated growth and development.
A flood of newcomers and unprecedented development are creating challenges for small, beautiful towns across the west.
Sandpoint, Idaho and the communities of Lake Pend Oreille are no exception. People are flocking to this magnificent area in droves. The migration can cause terrible problems for water quality, especially in places like Idaho which takes pride in having minimal regulation on development.
See how one community and Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper are working to get ahead of the problems, in an upcoming short film we are working on with , Jimmy Matlosz, Mitchell Fullerton and Scott Rulander.
Check out the trailer here!
https://vimeo.com/665872250
This is "Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper Film Trailer" by Catalyst Communication Services on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love…
Hundreds of indigenous, faith, environmental and social justice leaders descend on the White House calling on President Biden to stop new fossil fuel projects. Thousands of people joined the week-long protest and over five hundred were arrested.
The demands include:
1) stop crude oil exports
2) no new fossil fuel leases on public lands
3) no new fossil fuel infrastructure.
The US is a net total fossil fuel energy exporter, meaning we exploit more than we need.
What an honor for Jennifer Ekstrom to be a featured filmmaker of Wild & Scenic Film Festival! This fest really empowers environmental filmmakers to get their stories out and achieve their films' goals!
This is a great time to watch our latest film, Rise Beyond Gold, available at catalystcommunication.org, and get inspired to help stop the !
Who are you? (where are you from, where do you live, why did you get into film, whatever you want to tell us really) After growing up in eastern Washington, I’ve been happy to call Nevada City home since 2015. I moved here the year after I published my first film, and was delighted to […]
The Idaho Maryland gold mine might re-open in Nevada County, CA. This area was at the heart of the gold rush, which brought droves of people to California in the late 1800's. Since the mine closed in the 1950's, town has grown in around its remnants.
View the workshop hosted by Wild & Scenic Film Festival to learn all about the situation, then let Nevada County Supervisors know what you think!
The film that inspired the workshop is Rise Beyond Gold. Find the full film and watch it free at catalystcommunication.org
Jennifer Ekstrom The Sierra Fund MineWatch - Stop the Idaho Maryland Mine MineWatch Nevada County Shelly Covert California Heritage: Indigenous Research Project
Watch this WSFF Workshop: "Mining Gold Again in Nevada County?" -- Originally recorded live Saturday, January 23, 2021, during the 19th annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival.
https://youtu.be/Kw-NF85XlYo
Join Nevada County leaders and conservation activists as they discuss the proposed reopening of Idaho Maryland Mine and offer actions you can take now to help prevent it. This proposal by a foreign corporation is the topic of the film, Rise Beyond Gold, which premiers in the "Local Love" film session. This workshop explores the impacts the community would face if Nevada County allows the mine to open. It offers insights from trusted community leaders, highlights ways to stay informed, and includes tips for influencing decision-makers. Pascale Fusshoeller, esteemed editor of YubaNet and 21-year veteran of the Nevada County news scene, will moderate the panel featuring:
Jennifer Ekstrom - Filmmaker, Rise Beyond Gold
Pascale Fusshoeller - Moderator, Editor of YubaNet
Ralph Silberstein - Community Environmental Advocates Foundation
Mike Shea - Impacted Property Owner from Mine
Shelly Covert - Secretary, Community Outreach, and Spokesperson, Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Council / California Heritage: Indigenous Research Project
Izzy Martin - CEO, The Sierra Fund
MineWatch - Stop the Idaho Maryland Mine
The Line 3 Pipeline into Minnesota is proposed in order to mine and burn even more tar sands - the dirtiest fuel on earth. At every step, from the massive strip mines, to extraction to transporting to refining to burning, tar sands fuel uses more energy, emits more carbon and leaves more pollution than any other type of energy used today. Opposition organizers are planning an important protest in northern Minnesota June 5-8. They've put an urgent call out for help from allies... If Standing Rock grabbed your attention in 2016, check in with this one...
America’s ongoing genocide of Turtle Island’s Indigenous population is not acceptable. Stand with the Anishinaabe people. Tell the president to stop Line 3.
Join us Thursday evening for a screening of our film about the Idaho Maryland Mine, along with a panel Q & A featuring cast and crew from the film.
Get your questions answered and learn how to be involved with the awesome people on the front lines who are working to stop this bad idea.
Thanks to YubaNet for publishing the announcement!
Grass Valley, Calif. February 23, 2021 – A local film about the proposal to re-open Idaho Maryland Mine in Nevada County, CA will be screened this Thursday, February 25th at 6:00 pm. The onli…
Check out our latest release, Rise Beyond Gold, premiering at Wild & Scenic Film Festival tomorrow! We are honored to be a part of this amazing festival in its first year being completely online.
Tickets here:
https://wsff.eventive.org/films/5fb07de2a6622400940883e2
The film is about a foreign corporation attempting to re-open a relic gold mine under a quiet mountain town...
Wild & Scenic Film Festival is also hosting a free activist workshop inspired by our film, so stay tuned for that link, filmmaker interviews and more!
MineWatch - Stop the Idaho Maryland Mine
We're delighted to announce that our newest film, Rise Beyond Gold, will premier at Wild & Scenic Film Festival in January! Screening times and other details to be announced...
Rise Beyond Gold is about a proposal to re-open a relic gold mine in Nevada County, CA. The community faces a foreign corporation that would take the gold from under their property and leave a toxic legacy behind. Rise Beyond Gold also raises bigger questions for the world at large. Why do we desire gold; and ultimately, is it worth it?
A foreign corporation wants to re-open a relic gold mine in Nevada County, CA, and the community responds.
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Weigh in on the Environmental Impact Statement here: http://www.uintabasinrailwayeis.com/PublicInvolvement.aspx. Deadline is December 14th.
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Cast your vote for the planet!
The White House has dismantled major climate and environmental policies focused on clean air, water, wildlife and toxic chemicals. Here’s how it adds up.
Rise Gold Corp is attempting to open and operate an industrial gold mine in Brunswick Basin between Grass Valley and Nevada City, CA. They would bury 75 acres, including the area behind these berry pickers, under 1.6 million tons of mine tailings, stacking the waste up to 90 feet tall. When water runs through the tailings, it washes pollutants into the watershed. The industrial waste zone would be as close as 100 feet to Wolf Creek. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Tar sands is risky business! This dirtiest fuel puts communities at risk of life threatening illnesses during extraction, refining and burning. It's transport across land and sea creates the risk of spills that are impossible to clean. It is the worst thing for climate change.
Insurers have already dropped Trans Mountain pipeline in Canada for these reasons. One more insurance company needs a nudge, and if they also drop Trans Mountain Pipeline it could be the demise of this catastrophic development.
Thanks to Stand.earth for presenting this easy petition! Please sign today!
Without insurance the Trans Mountain pipeline cannot be built. Sign the petition to Zurich and other Trans Mountain insurers to drop TMX!
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Last chance to influence whether Utah will allow more than 4 million pounds of cancer causing uranium waste to be imported from Estonia.
The radioactive waste would permanently pollute the water supply for the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe at it's destination in southern Utah, and a spill would be detrimental to sea life in the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, or to any community on the long journey from Estonia.
Submit your comments to [email protected] before 5pm mountain time tomorrow, July 10th, 2020! Subject line should read: Public Comment on White Mesa RML Renewal.
Read more here: https://catalystcommunication.org/uranium_imports/
Center for Biological Diversity Grand Canyon Trust
Uranium Imports Utah Poised to Import Radioactive Waste from Estonia Public Comment Period Closes July 10th By Jennifer Ekstrom White Mesa Uranium Mill in southern Utah could soon become the destination for 2200 tons (4,400,000 pounds) of radioactive uranium waste from Estonia. This uranium waste wo...
Dakota Access Pipeline will be shut down and emptied by August 6th, after a federal judge ruled that Trump’s decision to bypass the required environmental studies was not legal. Congratulations to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and all their allies and water protectors!
This is a huge victory though not the end of the story. The corporation running the pipeline promises to challenge the decision, and an environmental review does not mean a project will be denied.
We’ll keep you posted here about how you can get involved and influence the process.
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to produce a full environmental review. Until then, oil must stop flowing through the controversial pipeline.
Amidst all the chaos, there is something you can do to help protect the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and all of southern Utah from massive new uranium pollution.
Please don't let this slip through while we are looking the other way... Comment deadline is July 10th.
The state of Utah is inviting your opinion as they consider approving a precedent setting uranium import. Comments can be emailed to: [email protected], with subject line: Public Comment on White Mesa RML Renewal.
Center for Biological Diversity
Uranium Imports Utah Poised to Import Radioactive Waste from Estonia Public Comment Period Closes June 5th By Jennifer Ekstrom White Mesa Uranium Mill in southern Utah could soon become the destination for 2200 tons (4,400,000 pounds) of radioactive uranium waste from Estonia. This uranium waste ...
The petroleum industry is pressuring land managers to sell vast swaths of publicly owned land and resources, for dirt cheap prices, while the public is sidelined during the pandemic.
Add your voice to the defense by signing this simple petition!
Stand.earth Waterkeeper Alliance
Sign the petition: Demand Interior Department stop all public land sales to the fossil fuel industry during COVID-19 pandemic. Take action here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-demand-interior-department-stop-all-public-land-sales-to-the-fossil-fuel-industry-during-covid-19-pandemi...
The state of Utah is asking for your opinion during their process to approve the import of almost 5,000,000 pounds of uranium waste from Estonia to southern Utah.
The radioactive material would be shipped halfway around the world and (most likely) trucked from the Gulf of Mexico, all the way to White Mesa, Utah.
Energy Fuels, a Canadian corporation that operates White Mesa Uranium Mill, is proposing they be allowed to accept, process and forever store this additional waste, despite groundwater at their mill already exceeding legal limits of radioactive contamination. The State has repeatedly weakened the ground water pollution limits each time the corporation has violated the legal limits, and they are hoping to do it again as part of this process.
Comments are accepted until June 5th, 2020, and can be emailed to: [email protected].
To ask questions before submitting your comments, you can join an electronic public hearing which will be held on Wednesday May 20, 2020 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Mountain Time. Details for how to attend the meeting will be posted here when they are available.
As we commemorate the 50th Anniversary of ... and also the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the , the , the and (almost) the , it seems a good time to reflect about how and why these groundbreaking changes occurred and whether they have brought us the degree of planetary health that was intended.
In 1970 and earlier, there was a massive public outcry about decline of species, rivers catching on fire, forest destruction, and the general and obvious decline of the planet we rely on for life. Republican President Richard Nixon oversaw the creation of vast and critical new environmental safeguards. He was then re-elected by the greatest margin in US history.
But something went awry as we multiplied and consumed. Today we're in the midst of the greatest public health crisis of our lives; one that was almost certainly caused and fueled by humanity's continued lack of a healthy relationship with the earth and all of life.
Our current President has now prohibited the EPA from enforcing 50 year old laws that protect our environment, our human habitat. He has declared that government agencies approving new petroleum export pipelines, ports and railroads no longer must consider their impact on . He has vowed to prop up the dying petroleum industry any way he can, even as demand and prices tank. He has done it all under the cloak of his atrocious mishandling of the US's response to the global pandemic.
The GOOD NEWS? We have a better chance than ever to oust Trump and his cronies in November. His approval is at an all time low.
We can use this time in self-isolation to educate ourselves, restore our energy, witness how massive change can happen if we all participate, and realize that we don't need to consume as much as we thought we needed. Though we can't gather and call for justice, we can still engage in the decisions that are being made. We can prepare ourselves to seize this time of instability and great change, and create the world we've imagined.
The status quo that got us into this mess has never been so vulnerable.
It’s up to us...
Mad props to all the leaders, advocates and heroes who are pushing up their shirtsleeves....
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AND A EARTH DAY GIFT FOR YOU: Links to films we've had to honor to participate in the creation of.
Last Rush for the Wild West - https://vimeo.com/118301278
Earth Wisdom for a World in Crisis - http://www.globalspirit.tv/project/earth-wisdom/
Vanishing Coral - https://www.linktv.org/shows/earth-focus/episodes/vanishing-coral
Redefining Prosperity (available through Friday only) - https://vimeopro.com/bullfrogfilms/redefining-prosperity?fbclid=iwar1crcvm28vjak7t8gy7rjoajo3deyfkzfcess_k0c2eq0t8mgglhwmkrmq
Cause to Wonder https://www.facebook.com/causetowonder/videos/1286255738205005/
(coming soon)
Who We Were - http://www.bauderfilm.com/who-we-were
“Vanishing Coral” presents the personal story of scientists and naturalists who are working with local communities to protect coral reefs that are...
For Earth Week: a free 'stay-at-home' screening experience of Redefining Prosperity: The Gold Rushes of Nevada City. This really is a blueprint for how to change the world, starting in your own backyard. We hope it inspires you during these challenging times!
Born in the California Gold Rush, Nevada City was once the scene of some of the most destructive environmental practices on earth. By the 1960s, the town was a backwater,…
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Wow, look at those colors! It’s a concerning stormwater outfall near a sewage treatment plant into Lake Pend Oreille. Find out more in the upcoming film for Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper @lpowaterkeeper… Working with @theidahofilmcompany @mitchell.fullerton @dpmatlosz @gemvision9 on this important piece that illuminates the impacts of under-regulated growth and development.
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