Renewable Energy Pilot Projects
The Jóhonaá éi (Solar) Project
Green chile, mutton stew and pinons, the southwest is perhaps best known for its outstanding foods, but there is so much more. Right now, the Southwest region is also home to 33 existing coal-fired power plants and thousands of abandoned uranium mines. Located in the four-corners area of the country, the Navajo Nation sits in the heart of the Southwest. With extreme summer temperatures and severe droughts, the Navajo Nation faces serious energy crises. With an overabundance of sun, the Navajo Nation also possesses a wealth of solar power potential. Read more...
ACT NOW! Support FAIR, Clean Energy for Tribes
We're asking our supporters to contact the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), and urge him to bring the FAIR Credit bill before his Committee for a vote. The FAIR Credit Act proposes a simple change to the tax code so tribes can become equal partners in renewable projects on their reservations. The legislation is currently stalled in Committee. Contact Chairman Rangel today!
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Read more...Bringing Wind to the White Earth Reservation
It's important that we walk our talk here in our own territory of Minnesota. That's why we are partnering with White Earth Land Recovery Project to install a wind turbine to power our joint offices in Callaway, Minnesota, on the White Earth Reservation. We share the building with an amazing set of groups up there and we actually work in the old elementary school, which requires quite a bit of power. The western edge of the reservation, where our offices are located, has excellent wind though. Read more...
Yankton Nakota Solar Training and Installation Project
Honor the Earth and the Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center (NAWHERC) co-sponsored a solar training and installation on the Yankton (Ihanktonwan) Reservation in South Dakota June 4-5, 2009. Henry Red Cloud of Lakota Solar Enterprises led the training and then, as a hands-on demonstration, installed two solar heating panels on the NAWHERC’s transitional housing for women. A community celebration followed the installation. Read more...
A New Partnership With Green For All
The mission of the national organization Green for All is to build an inclusive green economy, one “strong enough to lift people out of poverty”. That mission resonates strongly with our Native communities and our own mission at Honor. To forge a partnership, Winona LaDuke brought an Honor the Earth youth delegation to Green for All’s Dream Reborn conference in Memphis, Tennessee in April and then invited Green for All’s founder, Van Jones, to visit and speak to the Minneapolis Indian community in May 2008. Read more...
Skull Valley Goshute Solar Project
For more than a decade, Skull Valley Goshute tribal members diligently fought the siting of a high-level nuclear waste dump on their Utah reservation. A small, volunteer group called Ohngo Gaudadeh Devia (OGD) led the effort, standing down a consortium of some of the largest utilities in the country. In a precedent-setting victory, two Department of Interior agencies rejected plans for the private dump in September of 2006. Read more...
