Just a Native Soil Nerd hanging with Bill Nye the Science Guy 🫶🏽 Great lecture at ASU with Gila River Indian Community Governor Lewis, on climate change and science solutions.
“Integrating cultural relevance into STEM education, promoting culturally responsive mentoring, engaging communities, and showcasing role models are all crucial strategies for empowering NA/AN students in their STEM pursuits.” www.openaccessgovernment.org/article/indi...
Dr. Judith Brown Clarke and Dr. Wendy K’ah Skaahluwaa Todd, shed light on the crucial role of cultural identity in native American-Alaskan students’ persistence and success in STEM fields and the Geos...
As someone who has dealt with this in my own family, I see the way these cyber hacking scams can destroy a person, esp those who are living on a paycheck to paycheck basis. One cyber attack can be a disaster. We need better protection for our most marginalized community members.
“These attacks are not just a technological concern—they represent a growing civil rights crisis, disproportionately dismantling the safety and security for vulnerable groups and reinforcing systemic barriers of racism and classism.” www.wired.com/story/cybers...
Cyberattacks and criminal scams can impact anyone. But communities of color and other marginalized groups are often disproportionately impacted and lack the support to better protect themselves.
Air pollution reduces solar electricity generation by 4% in California. More solar electricity -> less air pollution -> more solar electricity. That's the kind of positive feedback we like 😊. By Seung Min Kim & Kenneth Gillingham 🔌💡
There is strong evidence on the mortality and morbidity external costs of air pollution. This paper focuses on another source of air pollution externality: the loss in solar electricity generation fro...
The growing rights-of-nature movement seeks to protect the environment by legally acknowledging its inherent right to exist and thrive independent of human use A new guidebook aims to assist Indigenous communities across the U.S. in adopting legal frameworks that recognize the rights of nature:
In 2023, a group of small communities in Ecuador ousted the world’s largest copper mining company from their community forest reserve, asserting that the company was violating the “rights of nature” enshrined in the Ecuadorian constitution. In recent years, countries like Ecuador, New Zealand, and India have passed rights-of-nature laws. This growing “rights of nature” […]
Someone recently told me a presidential postdoc (which I am) is basically a 2 year interview for scholars of color & I can’t stop thinking about that. These programs were designed to help increase the # of faculty of color but been learning a lot more about the hidden curriculum embedded in them.
"It is crucial that new enthusiasm not take the form of “knowledge mining”... Collaborators intent on supporting Indigenous knowledge systems might instead listen, learn, and, if requested, contribute their own knowledge or resources to [Indigenous] communities."
As environmental scientists, everywhere we work has stewardship responsibilities to the Indigenous relations. Indigenous knowledge is receiving long overdue recognition for its potential to provide solutions for the mutual thriving of lands and cultures. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I love being politically engaged, and also thinking about this political season makes me nauseous.