A\J: How do you describe yourself as an artist?
Activists
Happy Activism
How do we make environmental organizations attractive to large numbers of people? And how do we keep these folks engaged for the years, even decades that it will take to create a sustainable society?
Higher Powered: Joshna Maharaj
What role does faith, broadly understood, play in your ecological-culinary trajectory?
Higher Powered: David Miller
A\J: What gives you hope in your environmental and social justice work? David Miller: What gives me hope is having had the privilege of seeing environmental initiatives that work, and consider social justice and economic issues at the same time. Those are the lasting solutions. But it also means that […]
Higher Powered: John Robinson
A\J: What gives you hope in your environmental and social justice work?
Higher Powered: Lauryn Drainie
A\J: You have a special history having worked with some faith communities, as well as secular, environmental communities. What role do you think faith plays in contemporary, environmental movements? Lauryn Drainie: Personally, I grew up in a faith community, so that’s always been a part of who I am, but […]
Higher Powered : Emily Hunter
BY SEVEN YEARS OLD, Emily Hunter began seeing footage of her father, Bob Hunter’s environmental activism as a co-founder of Greenpeace. By 19, she joined the “family business” and began her career as an environmental activist, the same year her father succumbed to cancer. When she decided to join the […]
The Accidental Optimist
BEING AN ENVIRONMENTALIST is not the easiest gig. A dedicated activist will constantly fight against oil companies worth more money than you can imagine, listen to apathetic citizens who won’t even bother to recycle and try to talk to politicians who don’t seem to listen. Bill McKibben has been a leader […]
Faith in the Future
I have faith in the future because I believe Martin Luther King Jr.’s observation that ‘the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.’– Rob Shirkey, Our Horizon
Oil VS Amazon Vs Ego
The $19-billion award of the Ecuadorian court, in 2010, against Chevron to redress massive contamination in the Amazon had all the appearances of a cause célèbre. The class action lawsuit of Aguinda vs Chevron – initiated by 76 Indigenous people and migrant farmers, on behalf of 30,000 plaintiffs – represented […]
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