#environmentalactivism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #environmentalactivism, aggregated by home.social.
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This Startup’s AI Designs Enzymes That Can Eat Plastic Waste
In a lab tucked away in an old gun factory in New Haven, Connecticut, a machine heated plastic waste to 536 degrees Fahrenheit and spat out gloopy strings of material that start to harden when they hit the air. This substance made of textiles and post-industrial scrap that were destined for a landfill will be ground to bits to create as much surface area as possible. Landfills are overflowing with plastic trash. Serial inventor Jonathan Rothberg’s Protein Evolution found a solution: using […] -
Gangs taking villages on Brazil-Peru border ‘hostage’, say Indigenous leaders
By Jonathan WattsDelegation sent to Brasília after gunmen from organised crime group enter homes in western Amazon Forest
#Amazonrainforest #Americas #Indigenouspeoples #Brazil #Peru #Drugstrade #Loggingandlandclearing #Environmentalactivism #Worldnews #Deforestation #TheGuardian #JonathanWatts
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#GatherTheFilm - "Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst #NativeAmericans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through #FoodSovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide.
"Gather follows #NephiCraig, a chef from the #WhiteMountainApacheNation (#Arizona), opening an #IndigenousCafé as a nutritional recovery clinic; Elsie Dubray, a young scientist from the #CheyenneRiverSiouxNation (#SouthDakota), conducting landmark studies on #bison; and the #AncestralGuard, a group of #EnvironmentalActivists from the #YurokNation (Northern #California), trying to save the #KlamathRiver.
Gather is coming to Netflix in the US on November 1, 2021! Gather is now available to stream on iTunes (US/UK/Canada), Amazon (US/UK) and Vimeo-on-Demand (rest of the world)."
FMI (includes preview):
https://gather.film/#AnimalProducts #SolarPunkSunday
#TraditionalFoods #Bison #Salmon #CulturalSurvival #EnvironmentalActivism #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #SiouxNation #ApacheNation -
23 years ago, Andrea Collins (nee Bertorelli), Phil Collins' 1st ex-wife, published a fundraising calendar to help save #SaltspringIsland from more #deforestation. Before she moved to Ireland, she spent many years on SSI, doing wildlife #photography, running an art gallery & being involved in #EnvironmentalActivism.
Howard Fry spent 3 decades as a commercial #photographer in #Vancouver. In 1998 he retired to Salt Spring & became embroiled in a battle to save part of the island from development.
Salt Spring Island residents may be laid back, but they are dead serious about their #trees. They organized a fundraising campaign to buy close to 2,000 acres & turn it into a park.
35 #women between 18 & 74, including high-profile residents such as Andrea Collins, ex-wife of rock star Phil Collins, Birgit Bateman, photographer & wife of Robert Bateman, author & #environmentalist Briony Penn (who also rode Lady Godiva-style through downtown Vancouver) appear tastefully naked in the calendar.
Fry shot all the beautiful #BlackAndWhitePhotos & retains copyright. #Calendar sales of $19.95/unit raised over $200,000 in 2001 & received widespread media attention.
The price tag for the land was $15.9 million. The islanders raised $1.5 million & the provincial, regional & federal governments kicked in the rest.
https://evelazarus.com/howard-fry-and-the-salt-spring-island-calendars-20th-anniversary/
https://www.howardfryphotography.com/
#ArtisticNudes #FineArtNudes #NudePhotography #ActivismArt #EnvironmentalActivists #Saltspring #FemalesForForests #WomenForWilderness #PreserveAndProtect #SaltspringIslandWomen #BritishColumbia #BCactivismHistory #GulfIslandsPreserve #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #Canada #PNW #Penelakut #Xwaaqwum #Stqeeye #CoastSalish #CowichanNations #WsanecNations