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  1. RE: digitalcourage.social/@skruij/

    #WandelMut #LeseLust. Das Kuratieren der Bücher ist zuweilen herausfordernd.

    Das Thema ist wichtig und der Ansatz gut. Doch wie gut lassen sich Autorinnen und Autoren wirklich von ihren Werken trennen? Wann wird ein Buch zum #GreenWashing oder #SocialWashing? Aktuelles Beispiel 👇🏼(Meine Kritik in den Kommentaren)

    Kann ich ein Buch, das von Vertreterinnen aus großen US-BigTech geschrieben wurde, wirklich guten Gewissens empfehlen? 🤔

    Lasst mir gern Kommentare da, wie Ihr darüber denkt. Danke!

  2. #SamAltman and others at #OpenAI are trying wicked hard to convince folks that they're all about saving #Nature... Buying #JackieAndShadow's home and now this... Um, sorry Sam and friends. It doesn't make up for the #NoisePollution, #WaterPollution, pollution from #EnergyConsumption , etc. for the #AIHouseOfCards... But folks are seeing right through that!

    #OpenAI flew influencers to a #NatureResort to fix its image. The internet called it #greenwashing.

    OpenAI flew a group of influencers to a $2,000-a-night wellness resort to warm up the public mood around #AI. Days before a reported $500bn #Datacentre deal, the internet called it greenwashing, and the creators got the backlash.

    August 4, 2026

    "The event, branded 'Summer Camp,' ran at Wildflower Farms, a resort in New York’s #HudsonValley where rooms can top $2,000 a night, Business Insider reported. Creators posted farm-to-table dinners under bistro lights, a beekeeping session, and classes on OpenAI’s tools. They went home with branded canvas bags and jars of honey.

    "The videos were soft-focus and lighthearted. The comments were not. Across TikTok, Reddit, X and Instagram, people called the trip 'dystopian' and accused OpenAI of greenwashing. One commenter told TechCrunch the issue was timing: '#TheWorldIsOnFire. It’s not a great time to brag about your $5,000-a-night suite.' "

    Read more:
    thenextweb.com/news/openai-sum

    #NoDatacenters #TheWorldIsBurning #USPol #AISucks #BigPower #BigData #ResistDataCenters #PowerCorruptionAndLies #AIDatacenters

  3. Quando a Terra impõe seus limites

    A crise climática escancara-se em todo o mundo. Um sistema que sonha com a expansão e o lucro infinitos converteu em desastre a energia abundante. Para restabelecer o equilíbrio rompido, sociedades precisarão ir além dos mercados. Haverá tempo, sabedoria e estratégia?

    outraspalavras.net/terraeantro

  4. Moving #AI #DataCenters to #space is high-altitude #greenwashing. We just filed comments urging the #FCC to reject Cowboy Space’s 20,000-satellite "Stampede" constellation. From stratospheric metallic pollution to escalating collision risks and threats to astronomy, the hazards of orbital computing are severe. The FCC must require a full Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).

    Read our full comment: spaceenvironmentalism.org/acti

    #SpacePolicy #Astronomy #Sustainability #SpaceDebris

  5. @ApaulD
    Greenwashing. Those who are funding Australia’s renewables shift don’t “vow to fund” it (as in “Data centres vow to fund Australia’s renewables shift, not derail it” - they’ve come to praise renewables not to bury them, yeah right, cough cough, wink wink, etc.).

    #greenwashing #DataCentres #renewables #Caesar #vowToFund

  6. Financiación de proyectos sucios,
    #Greenwashing #ecoblanqueo financiero académico es lo que hacen las #cátedrasuniversitarias del Banco Santander con el apoyo incondicional de la #CRUE Conferencia de Rectorados españoles
    Aquí no pasa nada. Circulen
    Cátedra Banco Santander de la universidad de Zaragoza #Unizar, creada en 2008, hace gala de su observatorio de buenas prácticas 🥳
    #EeA premia al Santander con el galardón del peor banco

    catbs.unizar.es/

    ecologistasenaccion.org/370767

  7. #Reciprocity, #Respect, #Relationality: Three Rs to Understand #IndigenousPerspectives on Development in the #Green conomy

    By Edson Krenak, May 27, 2026

    "Reciprocity is more than a practice; it is our way of life, the way of life. Instead of focusing solely on economic growth, without limit, we must pay attention to check whether all beings are enjoying life in a healthy place. Without reciprocity, the green economy will reproduce the same extractive logic it claims to overcome, and eventually fail our common home, Earth."

    Read more:
    culturalsurvival.org/news/reci

    #IndigenousPeoples #Greenwashing #UncheckedGrowth #Capitalism #Colonialism #ExtractiveIndustries #LoveYourMotherEarth

  8. Boy, #SanfordME seems to be the target of #Greenwashing #SnakeOilSalesmen! First an Amazon #Datacenter, now they want to truck all the #PFAS to a plant that may or may not work!

    Residents pack Sanford forum on #biosolids plant, asking questions and voicing concerns

    #AriesCleanTechnologies saw a major turnout at the open house it held to explain its proposal, and some attendees were left frustrated by a lack of answers.

    by Penelope Overton and Abigail Driscoll
    Posted February 25, 2026

    Excerpt: "According to the official Aries Technologies website, the gasification process destroys 99% of forever chemicals. [I've seen other percentages cited! 95%, 97%... Who knows exactly how much?!!]

    "Some people aren’t convinced.
    'We haven’t seen any third-party research that backs their claims,' said Eve Dumont-Wilson, a representative from the #SanfordCleanAirAndWaterCoalition, a group that began this month to promote transparency from Aries and share its concerns over the possible environmental impacts of the proposed treatment center.

    " 'We want assurances that they will be held accountable in the event of a spill,' Dumont-Wilson explained, adding that one of the coalition’s concerns is how little research has been done into the process Aries uses." [Sneaky, sneaky! Just like the datacenters!!!]

    [...]

    "Despite these assurances, the developer faces a high bar in proving its #gasification technology is ready for large-scale use. Aries acknowledged its facility in #LindenNJ, has been 'temporarily idled' for equipment upgrades [and it only functioned intermittently for a year before being closed!]. The company maintains that the issues were related to dryers rather than the core technology."

    Read more:
    pressherald.com/2026/02/25/slu

    Archived version:
    archive.md/fYjLK

    Related article:
    mainepublic.org/environment-an

    #MainePol #MEPol #ForeverChemicals

  9. Mazda accused of greenwashing with tree-planting promotion newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/09/mazd
    Mazda says it plants five trees for every car sold, but a climate expert says 41,000 trees would be needed to offset the vehicle’s CO2 emissions #nzlaw #nzpol #greenwashing #advertising

  10. Businesses Can Either Lead Transformative Change or Risk Extinction

    Businesses Can Either Lead Transformative Change or Risk Extinction All Businesses Depend on and Impact Nature

    "Business-as-usual Incentives are Driving Nature’s Decline
    The loss of biodiversity is among the most serious threats to business
    100+ Concrete Actions for Governments, Financial Actors & Civil Society"

    "Every business depends on biodiversity, and every business impacts biodiversity. The growth of the global economy has been at the cost of immense biodiversity loss, which now poses a critical and pervasive systemic risk to the economy, financial stability and human wellbeing. This is a central finding of a landmark new report published today by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)."

    “Yet the twisted reality is that it often seems more profitable to businesses to degrade biodiversity than to protect it. Business as usual may once have seemed profitable in the short term, but impacts across multiple businesses can have cumulative effects, aggregating to global impacts, which can cross ecological tipping points. The Report shows that business as usual is not inevitable – with the right policies, as well as financial and cultural shifts, what is good for nature is also what is best for profitability. To get there, the Report offers tools for choosing more effective measurements and analysis.”

    "The Report provides more than 100 specific examples of concrete actions that can be taken, across each of these five components, by businesses, governments, financial actors and civil society."
    >>
    ipbes.net/node/97532
    #Biodiversity #life #habitability #Nature #degradation #loss #extractivism #IPBES #report #greenwashing #loggingImpacts #LobbyActivities #FossilFuelSubsidies #climate #BAU #risks #transformation

  11. @Laempel **Die große KI-Lüge: Warum nicht die Nutzung das Problem ist – sondern der industrielle Apparat dahinter**

    Wir reden ständig über die „Umweltbelastung“ der KI-Nutzung. Über einzelne Anfragen, über Bilderzeugung, über Chatbots mit angeblich gigantischem Verbrauch.
    Doch das ist — im Verhältnis — fast irrelevant.
    Das eigentliche Problem beginnt viel früher. Und es endet viel später.
    Und es wächst gerade in eine Dimension hinein, die kaum jemand öffentlich zu Ende denkt.

    Denn: **Die energiefressende, ressourcenverschleißende Katastrophe der KI liegt nicht in der Anwendung. Sie liegt im Training. Und im Business-Modell dahinter.**

    ### 1. KI als Ausrede, nicht als Werkzeug

    Wir erleben gerade eine Kommunikationsstrategie, bei der KI selbst zur politischen Rechtfertigung wird:
    – Personalabbau? „Die KI macht’s effizienter.“
    – Sparprogramme? „Automatisierung übernimmt.“
    – Fehlinvestitionen? „Wir müssen dranbleiben, sonst sind wir zurück.“
    KI dient als rhetorischer Joker, um Entscheidungen zu überdecken, die mit Technologie wenig, mit Macht und Sparzwang aber sehr viel zu tun haben.

    Das Absurdeste: Während man „Effizienz“ predigt, wird im Hintergrund ein Energie- und Rohstoffbedarf aufgebaut, der in keinem Verhältnis zur tatsächlichen Nutzung steht.

    ### 2. Kreisgeschäfte: Geld rein, Daten raus, Energie weg

    Das heutige KI-Ökosystem ist ein geschlossenes Kreisgeschäft:
    Unternehmen entwickeln Modelle, die wiederum genutzt werden, um weitere Modelle zu trainieren, die neue Modelle verbessern sollen, die dann als „Quantensprung“ marketed werden, um… noch mehr Modelle zu trainieren.

    Es geht nicht um den Endnutzer.
    Er ist nur die Kulisse, die man braucht, um das Ganze „Innovation“ nennen zu können.

    In Wahrheit rechtfertigt der Endnutzer nie den gigantischen Ressourcenverbrauch, den diese Trainingsschleifen benötigen. Es *gibt* gar nicht genügend reale Nachfrage, um diese Maschinerie zu legitimieren.

    ### 3. Die eigentliche Umweltkatastrophe: Training, nicht Anwendung

    Die großen Modelle brauchen für ein einziges Training:

    – Energie in Größenordnungen kleiner Staaten
    – Rechenleistung, die Rechenzentren an ihre Grenzen treibt
    – Wasser für die Kühlung, das in Regionen mit Wasserknappheit fehlt
    – Hardware, deren Herstellung seltene Rohstoffe verschlingt

    Und das alles nicht einmal als Ausnahme, sondern als Dauerzustand:
    Neue Modelle werden praktisch permanent trainiert, „fine-getuned“, retrainiert, wiederholt, skaliert.
    Die Nutzung hingegen – also das, was wir hier gerade tun – ist der kleinste Posten in einer gigantischen und unnötigen Ökobilanz.

    ### 4. Der eigentliche Skandal: Wir trainieren für ein Fantasiepublikum

    Der Markt tut so, als gäbe es Milliarden Kunden, die jeden Tag Millionen Anfragen stellen würden.
    Das stimmt nicht.
    Selbst bei steigender Nutzung reicht der reale Bedarf niemals aus, um diesen Energieverbrauch zu rechtfertigen.

    Wir trainieren Modelle, weil das Training selbst zum Geschäftsmodell geworden ist.

    Wir trainieren Modelle, weil Investoren nur auf Skalierung reagieren.

    Wir trainieren Modelle, weil man damit politische Narrative („Digitalstandort!“) bedienen kann.

    Wir trainieren Modelle, weil die Firmen sonst nicht erklären könnten, wo das ganze Geld geblieben ist.

    Das ist keine Innovation.
    Das ist eine Industrialisierung des Leerlaufs.

    ### 5. Die dunkle Wahrheit: Die KI-Blase wächst, bis sie knallt

    Wir haben eine Ressourcenmaschine gebaut, die unabhängig vom Nutzen weiterläuft.
    Eine Maschine, die Energie verbrennt, Wasser verbraucht, Rohstoffe verschlingt — nicht, um Probleme zu lösen, sondern um das Wachstum der Maschine selbst zu rechtfertigen.

    Gegen diese Absurdität wirkt das gesamte Zeitalter der Industrialisierung fast bescheiden.
    Dort wurde wenigstens produziert.
    Hier wird trainiert, um zu trainieren.

    Die ökologische Wahrheit lautet also:
    **Die Nutzung ist nicht das Problem.
    Das Geschäftsmodell ist es.**

    ---

    #AI #Kritik #Umwelt #Energie #Digitalisierung #Wirtschaft #Politik #Ressourcen #Greenwashing #Siliziumwirtschaft #Datenökonomie #Training #AGI #Blase #KI #TechKritik #DigitalPolicy #Sustainability #WaterCrisis #Rechenzentren #Arbeitswelt #Automatisierung #Fakten #Ökologie #Dorfzwockel
  12. #RecyclingLead for U.S. Car Batteries Is #Poisoning People

    By Peter S. Goodman, Will Fitzgibbon and Samuel Granados Visuals by Finbarr O’Reilly and Carmen Abd Ali
    Nov. 18, 2025

    Excerpt: "The #AutoIndustry touts #BatteryRecycling as an environmental success story. Lead from old batteries, when recycled cleanly and safely, can be melted down and reused again and again with minimal pollution.

    "But companies have rejected proposals to use only lead that is certified as safely produced. Automakers have excluded lead from their #environmental policies.
    Battery makers rely on the assurances of trading companies that lead is recycled cleanly. These intermediaries rely on perfunctory audits that make recommendations, not demands.

    "The industry, in effect, built a global supply system in which everyone involved can say someone else is responsible for oversight.

    "#Nigeria, the economic engine of West Africa, is among the fastest-growing sources of recycled lead for American companies."

    Read more [with visuals]:
    nytimes.com/interactive/2025/1

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/HqR18

    #SEZ #EPZ #EconomicSacrificeZones #Pollution #EnvironmentalDamage #Greenwashing #EnvironmentalRacism #Africa #Nigeria #LeadPoisoning #Ford #Toyota #GM #PeopleAndPlanetOverProfit

  13. Z Energy apologises for 2022 ad campaign after legal action rnz.co.nz/news/business/577520 #greenwashing #nzpol #nzlaw #consumerlaw #apology

    'During 2022 and 2023 a large scale 'Moving With The Times' campaign was conducted through print, television, billboards and social media outlined Z Energy's commitment to alternative fuels and emission reductions. But in 2023 Consumer NZ, Lawyers for Climate Action New Zealand, and the Environmental Law Initiative sought High Court declarations that Z Energy had misled New Zealanders with its messaging in the campaign.'

  14. #handsoff2025 Protest today!!!!! Join up with others to say #HandsOff our democracy and fight for your freedom!!!! Find Your LOCAL PROTEST HERE; mobilize.us/handsoff/

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  15. #Studie: #Seedbombs sind schlecht für die Umwelt - #Mogelpackung Seedbomb!
    Für ihre Studie „Schmetterlingswiese, #Bienenschmaus und #Hummelmagnet#Insektenrettung aus der #Samentüte“ nahmen die Autoren Corinne Buch und Dr. Armin Jagel des Bochumer #Botanischen Vereins e. V. die kleinen Tütchen genauer unter die Lupe. Für ihre Untersuchungen fotografierten die Autoren die Samen der #Saatgutmischungen. Anschließend säten, bestimmten und dokumentierten sie fotografisch die sich daraus entwickelnden Keimlinge und #Pflanzen. Das Ergebnis der Studie ist ernüchternd und alarmierend zugleich. So hat das Aussäen weitreichende, aber leider nicht die beabsichtigten Folgen. #greenwashing
    #Beewashing #Wildbienen #Honigbienen #Bienen #Hummel
    #Garten #Balkonien #Balkon #Stadtgrün #blumen #Wildpflanzen #Wildblumen #biodiversität #natürlich #Natur #frühling #sommer #Sähen #Wiese #Wildblumenwiese #bienenweide

    myhomebook.de/service/seedbomb

  16. Ja, landwirtschaftliche Newsletter machen wenig Spaß. Die vielen schrecklichen Meldungen aus der Tierhaltung kann einem echt den Tag vermiesen. Hier eine englischsprachige Meldung. Amerika exportiert #Rinder in die Kasachische Steppe, um dort das #grasland fürs #greenwashing zu verwenden. Mit ominösen Zahlen aus rein rechnerischen #kohlstoffspeichern sollen zertifikate für schmutzige Geschäfte generiert werden. Am Ende geht die Steppe kaputt und alles andere sowieso.
    insideclimatenews.org/news/241

  17. "Es gebe überhaupt keinen wissenschaftlichen Beweis, dass dadurch mehr Kohlenstoff eingelagert werde, und letztlich komme bei der Bevölkerung nur ein kleiner Teil an. „Es ist quasi ein Pakt mit dem Teufel“, so Counsell. „Man verkauft diese ganzen fragwürdigen Kohlenstoffkredite an genau jene Firmen, die den Planeten zerstören.“"
    #greenwashing #afrika #tansania #ausbeutung #grasland #klimalügen #vw #rinder #kohlenstoffhandel #co2
    taz.de/VW-und-Maasai/!6071555/

  18. Blog: Voices of #Decolonization

    #FirstNations chiefs shouldn’t be duped by the ‘#nuclear-is-green' deception

    by William Eric Altvater, February 6, 2025

    "Some First Nation Chiefs are victims of shenanigans, not unlike the swindle behind the purchase of Manhattan. The federal government needs the support of #Indigenous peoples to expand nuclear power generation capacity in #Canada.

    "For millennia, the cornerstones of the Indigenous people that inhabit Turtle Island, now known as North America, held all that is essential to life, in reverence. Every decision considered the next 7 generations. These cornerstones are crumbling.

    "Newcomers, armed with the #Colonizing tool, 'The #DoctrineOfDiscovery' and their mentality of superiority, invaded the land of those they called 'Savages,' almost totally exterminating #Skicinuwok, People of The Earth.

    "Determined to bestow Christianity and civility to this wild untamed population, old growth forests were cut, rivers and streams were dammed to power sawmills, roads and railroads were built, bridges erected. All to create an infrastructure for #capitalism, a system to make a #profit, that morphed into #greed, a word of foreign root. This unbridled desire for progress has ruined what was once called Paradise.

    "Now most water is not fit to drink, clean air is scarce, #deforestation is rampant, #biodiversity loss out of control, plants genetically modified, food manufactured with unpronounceable chemicals, caged fish starved of oxygen while being fed chicken feathers and pig parts, cancer cases in the millions, the list goes on.

    "As the population increased over this continent the available sources for power generation have not been able to satisfy the insatiable desires of the 'bigger, better, faster, more is never enough' mentality. Some have finally acknowledged the fact that #FossilFuels are not the golden egg they were once deemed to be.

    "So-called '#GreenEnergy' is required to slow the blind drive to extinction of man; man, who is considered by some to be the most intelligent creature to ever roam Earth. Unfortunately, the lure of riches and the corruption of self-serving purposes have led man to stray from practices that nurture everything required to sustain life on this tiny blue marble floating through the universe.

    "#NuclearPower is now being touted as being 'Green.' It is not. Big money corporations are lobbying legislators to convince them and the public that it is. They are also lobbying to convince the public that they should foot the bill in the form of taxes and rate hikes, for a process that pollutes from the day it starts. Water is life. As soon as #uranium is mined from the earth it begins to contaminate the water in surrounding aquifers.

    "When the uranium is processed sufficiently, it is used as fuel for reactors where it generates heat while delivering electricity, not just for essential needs, but also for many things once considered luxuries. This fission generated heat is then dumped into nearby waters where it kills thousands, if not millions of small beings that form the basis of life itself.

    "After this radioactive fuel is depleted, it is stored in various containers where it will stay radioactive for eons. Indigenous #Grandmothers have labelled it 'Forever Dangerous.'

    "The power generated during the fission process benefits only those who exist today as the process occurs, not those born tomorrow or next week or next month. All the #RadioactiveWaste and the inherent danger it creates is left to future generations, kicking the can down the road.

    "What better place to dump this waste than in an area with a population that has witnessed Newcomers enrich themselves for hundreds of years? Yes, what better place than a population that has been targeted for assimilation, suffered theft of lands, witnessed the taking of naturally bestowed rights? A population that has been subjected to racial Indian Act legislation essentially stripping away all that sustained this population for thousands of years.

    "Yes, let us give the Indians some more shiny beads and trinkets so that they willingly agree to care for our radioactive garbage. How do we do this? Let’s talk to the Chief and Council. Let’s wine and dine them. Let’s give them some money, take them to dinner, buy some drinks and make them feel all festive and most of all make them think we are looking out for their best interests. Some Chiefs have taken the bait.

    "Egregious as it may be, this is exactly what is happening in some Indigenous communities contrary to the will of the majority. Elected Chiefs are continuing the deception as they are blinded and professing the 'Nuclear is Green' mantra. They have lost connection with the Spirit of Ancestors and traditional values. They need to have a serious introspection and realize that looking forward, we need only look back at what has sustained us to this point in time. We need not do any more than that."

    Eric lives in #PeskotomuhkatiNation territory in Maine and stands shoulder to shoulder with his Peskotomuhkati relations in #NewBrunswick in the struggle to achieve Canadian Government recognition.

    wabanakireach.org/first_nation
    #NoNukes #NoNewNukes #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #UraniumMining #UraniumMilling #LeaveItInTheGround #Greenwashing #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree #NuclearIsNotGreen #CanadaPol #NuclearWaste #NuclearIndustry #TEPCOLies #HoltecLies #NuclearColonialism

  19. #KleeBenally's on his cover of the #TomWaits song "Earth Died Screaming."

    "#Climatechange is a consequence of the war against #MotherEarth.
    The #greenwashing of #capitalism and #colonialism perpetuates the nightmare of #ecocide and #genocide of #IndigenousPeoples.

    "#LithiumMining is intensifying to meet demand of 'green' #EV cars. This means further targeting and destruction of #Indigenous #SacredLands and water. Support #Hualapai & #Shoshone (and beyond!) resistance to lithium mining.

    From mining, transport, milling, and waste, 'clean/green' #Nuclear energy is a deadly lie. There are more than 10,000 abandoned uranium throughout the so-called US that have been left to permanently contaminate our communities with deadly #radioactive pollution. There is also no permanent plan to deal with the highly radioactive waste from nuclear power generation. #YuccaMountain, a sacred site for #WesternShoshone, is still being considered for a national nuclear waste repository.

    "For wind turbines, solar panels, and electric vehicles, #ResolutionCopper proclaims that they desperately need to mine the copper beneath #OakFlat, a sacred site for #SanCarlosApache.

    "We can't ignore the brutal impacts associated with the sourcing of necessary metals and minerals needed to
    'sustain' unsustainable ways of life.

    "#GreenCapitalists and #colonizers dream, while the Earth dies screaming."

    youtube.com/watch?v=iMrBYnKo9v

    the-ciej.org
    indigenousaction.org
    HaulNo.com
    dinenonukes.org
    cleanupthemines.org

    #DefendTheSacred #DefendMotherEarth #ClimateChange #NoNukes #NoNewNukes #RethinkNotRestart #NoUraniumMining #NoMiningWithoutConsent #CulturalGenocide #Genocide #RestInPowerKleeBenally #FridayNightMusicVideos
    #FridayNightMusic #MusicForActivism #MusicForResistance

  20. #PrayerHorseRide Prepares for Sacred Journey 2025

    "We do not sell our #MotherEarth or profit off of her, Mother Earth is here to take care of us and teach us our natural ways of Life! I pray we all stand to protect our Mother,” - Josh Dini, Sr., Walker River Pauite Tribe, #WaterProtector, #PrayerHorseRider and a member of #AIM Northern Nevada.

    By Prayer Horse Ride, via #CensoredNews

    SCHURZ, Nevada -- "The Prayer Horse Ride is getting ready to begin our 4th annual sacred journey March 21st – April 2nd, across Nevada in the ancestral lands of the Numu (#Paiute) and Newe (#Shoshone), through Yerington, Fallon, Wadsworth, Nixon, Lovelock to McDermitt, and ending near Orovada, honoring #PeeheeMuhuh (#ThackerPass in the McDermitt Caldera).

    "Those Riders, Walkers, and Runners carry the prayerful energy with each community. They'll move forward to raise awareness regarding water usage and #NativeAmericanGraves Protection and
    Repatriation Act concerns about #lithium mining in Peehee Mu'huh and within the McDermitt Caldera.

    "The Ride also raises awareness of several #EndangeredSpecies in #FishLakeValley (#TecopaBirdsBeak, #TiehmsBuckwheat, and #TuiChub), a place Newe gathered foods and medicines, held sacred ceremonies, and where a proposed lithium boron mine would violate the #AmericanIndianReligiousFreedomAct."

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/01
    #JusticeForMyronDewey #LithiumMining #CopperMining #NoMining #SaveThackerPass #SacredPlaces #DefendTheSacred #GreenWashing #ExtractiveIndustries #MMIWG #MMIR #CorporateColonialism #PrayerRide #ProtectTheSacred #ProtectThackerPass #ReaderSupportedNews