The Quinault people are the very definition of resilience, demonstrating adaptability, and stewardship of their lands with dedication, love, and devotion.
Banks, and now insurers, drop project plagued with risk from community, cultural, and climate issues.
“The birth of the white buffalo calf in Yellowstone has captivated the world,” reflects James Holt, Sr., Executive Director of BFC. “I hope this sacred occurrence will aid the plight of the wild buffalo, for their existence is needed by all beings, especially here in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.”
Released today, the 15th annual Banking on Climate Chaos (BOCC) report employs a new, expanded data set that credits each bank making financial contributions to a deal instead of only crediting banks in leading roles. It cuts through greenwash, covering the world’s top 60 banks’ lending and underwriting to over 4,200 fossil fuel companies and the financing of companies causing the degradation of the Amazon and Arctic.
The Chief Seattle Club, CSC, has long since tended to and nurtured the seeds for growth, sowing opportunities, and holding space for healing. It is an important center we need for our Indigenous communities to survive and hopefully thrive in this urban Coast Salish territory of Seattle Washington
Formed in 2016 during the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline, Mazaska Talks seeks to leverage economic power to fight repression of Indigenous rights and the desecration of Mother Earth.
These films will highlight indigenous leaders, activist, and community members who are working towards our collective future
The Fossil Free Finance Act would require that all banks holding more than $50 billion in assets and all nonbank SIFIs reduce financed emissions by 50 percent by 2030 and cease financing emissions by 2050.
Annual Banking on Climate Chaos report follows the money and details massive bank support for the world’s worst climate-destroying corporations
In the past year alone, the movement led by Native communities to reclaim lands and spaces — sometimes called the “Land Back” movement — saw huge gains in mainstream momentum.
Chubb joins 17 international insurers and every major U.S. bank as the first American insurance company with a policy that precludes underwriting new oil and gas development in the Arctic Refuge.
The Yakama Nation is fighting a pumped hydro storage development near Goldendale, Washington – but it’s just one of many.
It can be difficult to understand the true impacts of climate change when you are not directly facing its harsh effects. We see that communities in different regions and terrains around the world are experiencing different rates of global warming with different consequences.
My people don’t need to be saved, we want to be respected! Respect our culture, our people, our ways, Creator and Mother Earth.
The investigation by the Public Accountability Initiative, a nonprofit corporate and government accountability research institute, and its research database project LittleSis, details how police foundations in cities such as Seattle, Chicago, Washington, New Orleans and Salt Lake City are partially funded by household names such as Chevron, Shell and Wells Fargo
We simply cannot allow ourselves to trade the welfare of the places we live, the water we drink, the future of all of our children for the crumbs these banks and corporations throw at us, period.
Divest from Wall Street, pull your money out of these banks financing and profiting from the loss of life, save the planet.
We can’t talk about racism and not talk about environmental racism. Our neighborhoods and our communities are the first ones affected. Of course, eventually, it’s going to affect everybody. Standing Rock should have been a prime example.
Last year, thousands of King County residents came together to win a moratorium on new fossil fuel development. Today, King County Council voted unanimously to make that moratorium permanent, by passing a comprehensive suite of regulations that protect local communities from fossil fuel threats.
The existing Trans Mountain pipeline is a major environmental and public health hazard with a long history of disastrous spills. Earlier this month, 50,000 gallons of crude oil spilled from a pump station located above an aquifer that supplies the Sumas First Nation with drinking water.
On July 22, 2020 The Seattle City Council voted unanimously on two pieces of legislation to pass the JumpStart Seattle spending plan, which includes immediate COVID relief for Seattle’s families and small businesses, and long-term economic revitalization by investing in affordable housing and essential city services