Save-A-Date: Oct. 8 Oct 9, 2009
Oct. 20: Winona LaDuke, environmentalist and founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, speaks at 7 p.m., in Sorenson Theater at Babson College in Wellesley. LaDuke is an environmentalist and indigenous rights activist known for her advocacy and writing on Native American environmental issues. (Wellesley Townsman, MA)
Sustainable food leaders letter to Chipotle CEO Steve Ells Jul 17, 2009
Eric Schlosser, Author, Fast Food Nation, Co-Producer "Food, Inc." * Robert Kenner, Director, Food, Inc. * Raj Patel, Author, Stuffed and Starved * Frances Moore Lapp;, Author, Diet for a Small Planet * Curt Ellis, Co-Producer, King Corn * Will Allen, Founder & CEO, Growing Power, Inc. * Erika Allen, Chicago Projects Manager, Growing Power, Inc. * Winona LaDuke, Executive Director, Honor the Earth * Josh Viertel, President, Slow Food USA * Ben Burkett, President, National Family Farm Coalition *... (Harper's Magazine)
Local groups sponsor first Powder River Basin summit Jun 17, 2009
Speakers include Winona Laduke, an internationally acclaimed author and activist, Samuel Western, writer specializing in Rocky Mountain economic history and economist correspondent, as well as ranchers and scientists from Wyoming. It will be the first summit organized by the environmental groups of Montana and Wyoming including Sierra Club, Powder River Basin Resource Council and Northern Plains Resource Council. (Gillette News-Record, WY)
Morning Leadoff May 17, 2009
50 years ago (1959): The major award winners at Bismarck Junior College during the past year were Ransom Weber, Jim Larson, Gordon Kettleson, Tony Schmidt, Agnes Bendish, Leona Mae Klug, Winona LaDuke, Elizabeth Held, Janice Cram, Ed Volk, Tom O'Neil, Art Finck, John Smith, Bernie Easton, John Wetzstein, Gale Froelich, Larry Wagner and Norman Kessler. They are joined by Charles Tebelius, Joe Eckert, Joe Smith, Jerry Wiseman, Dick Olson, Bern Davis, Jerry Dobson, Charles McClung, Rich Brummeier,... (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
Morning Tipoff Mar 24, 2009
Winona LaDuke had 15 and Agnes Bendish nine for BJC.. The College turned back Shamrocks 68-34. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
For Indian tribes, economic needs collide with tradition Mar 4, 2009
Tapping renewable energy creates jobs while upholding cultural traditions, says Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe economist on Minnesota's White Earth Indian Reservation and executive director of the environmental group Honor the Earth. "Indian tribes should not be ... put in a situation of creating an economy that destroys their people," she says. (USA Today -- Money)
