RACISM, DROUGHT AND HISTORY: Young Native Americans fight back as water disappears Gigi Coyle recently traveled home to Payahuunadu, CA from the NW and decided to take more of the "back routes" choosing Klamath Falls as where to stop … following the waterways, wanting to be near water for the
INTERVIEW WITH ANDY LIPKIS With Kate Bunney Kate: Can you share a story of the moment you fell in love with water? Andy: When I first read this question, what came up was being at the Tinnemaha campground. I was preparing to go on a four day fast up in
WATER WALK - VIRGINIA TO NORTH CAROLINA, USA By Crystal Cavalier-Keck I was born and raised in the rolling hills of the Piedmont area of North Carolina, roughly Northern Alamance County. My family is from this area spanning back 400 years, and before that we migrated from the Ohio valley
LAND WISDOM AND THE SPINE OF ATHENS By Georgia Dousikou “This landscape is an ancestor who has seen it all, has known it all…” Kostas Ouranis, Greek poet, travel writer and journalist. This initiative arose out of a deep calling to reconnect nature with culture in Greece. To welcome the
THE CAPE FEAR RIVER WATCH By Audrey Dunn, Outreach & Programs Officer, Cape Fear River Watch When I first accepted an Environmental Education Americorps position at Cape Fear River Watch, I honestly didn’t know the first thing about the water quality of the Cape Fear River Basin. I just thought
HYMN TO THE ATMOSPHERE by Claire Peaslee Let us now praise skywater, its elemental dance. Hola, aloha, halo, high and hello. Let us sing (ashay) of the everlasting gush of micro droplets, rising… rising… on geysers of tropical air. Marvel at the massive mists that perpetually yield
WHERE THERE ONCE WAS WATER Interview with Brittany App Filmmaker 'Where there once was Water' Can you share a story of when you first fell in love with water? As it does, I think the falling in love took time. Through a long-running exploration and curiosity around water access, the
FROM THE MINNESOTA HOME TEAM By Marian Moore The Mississippi River where Enbridge plans to cross, photo by Marian Moore It is December 14, 2020, and here I am, a sixty-four- year-old woman, in a jail cell in northern Minnesota’s Aitkin County during a global pandemic. I
ON WOMEN, COURAGE AND CO-CONSPIRACY by Marsela Pećanac photos by Robert Oroz I have recently been grappling with the notion of courage. I met Asha Bandele, a wonderful woman activist leader, at a conference where she said: “If you want to do anything, you need to do it with courage.”
WATER WARRIORS ALIGNED By Nichole Miller-Strachan As a young Black Woman working in the 501c3 sector in the late 90’s early 2000’s, there was a name that came up in every development meeting, Gwen Winston. If there was a grant to be secured, you called “Gwen Winston” to eloquently paint a
