The descriptive title for Episode 14 is "The State of the World on Climate." This episode features Daniel M. Kammen Ph. D. head of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab (RAEL) at UC Berkeley. He is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, along with his team, for their work with the U.N. for the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Created for the Podcast Series, Climate Change is Here. Hosted by Robert Lundahl, Filmmaker and Journalist. Now on Apple Podcasts, and at ClimateChangeisHere.com. 

Dan discusses the merits and achievements of the recent COP26 in Glasgow, while addressing shortcomings, compromises, and most importantly, time frames, tools and trust.

Climate Change is Here Episode 14 1 - 2 26 : 15 TRT Daniel M. Kammen Ph. D.

The descriptive title for Episode 15 is "What if we save the planet and leave the world behind? A conversation on Environmental Justice." This episode features Daniel M. Kammen Ph. D. head of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab (RAEL) at UC Berkeley. He is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, along with his team, for their work with the U.N. for the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Created for the Podcast Series, Climate Change is Here. Hosted by Robert Lundahl, Filmmaker and Journalist. Now on Apple Podcasts, and at ClimateChangeisHere.com. Dan discusses the merits and achievements of the recent COP26 in Glasgow, while addressing shortcomings, compromises, and most importantly, time frames, tools and trust.

Climate Change is Here Episode 15 1 - 2 26 : 45 TRT Daniel M. Kammen Ph. D.

I am honored to have recently interviewed Dorece Sam (Ft. McDermitt Pai-Sho Tribe), her aunt, Elder, Josephine Dick, and son, who goes by the name "Young Warrior." You will hear from all in this podcast, plus, Will Falk, Attorney, Reno Sparks Indian Colony, and Summit Lake Paiute Tribe, litigants.

Excepting Will, all are descendants of Ox Sam, who escaped the massacre of 1865, on horseback, as his people and family perished in an attack by the First Nevada Cavalry.

A similar battle wages today, for many of the same reasons.

From People of Red Mountain:

Call for Solidarity; Indigenous group seeks response from General Motors regarding human rights issues at Thacker Pass.

People of Red Mountain (PRM), is an Indigenous grassroots organization that was formed to protect the sacred site, Peehee Muhu – Thacker Pass. People of Red Mountain has raised significant and urgent concerns regarding human, religious, and Indigenous Peoples rights violations by the proposed mine.

In January of 2023, General Motors provided a $650 million joint Equity Investment and Supply Agreement with Lithium Americas to develop the Thacker Pass lithium mine at Peehee Mu’huh in Nevada.

The SIRGE Coalition and People of Red Mountain prepared a letter to GM highlighting the company’s social policies and requesting a meeting on the human rights implications of this investment.

We sent the letter in early March, but have not received a response. Currently, we are asking organizations and investors that support Paiute, Shoshone, and Bannock human rights to reach out to their contacts at GM, and request that the company respond to the letter.

Click on the link to see the letter that was sent in regards to General Motors’ recent $650 million joint Equity Investment and Supply Agreement with Lithium Americas to develop the Thacker Pass lithium mine at Peehee Muhu in Nevada.

Dorece Sam (Paiute), Josephine Dick (Paiute), Young Warrior, Will Falk, Podcast/Thacker Pass

I was doing the Piano/keyboard, but not towards the end, I was talking about the slope yet nice sounding like when I was in Greenberg Elementary back in the day in Mrs. Sharon Solomon's class or in the actual music class. I arranged the different sounds together. I do this to get through what I am feeling. IT come's in cycles, just the the cycles of my siblings. I am not too sure which one I am going to get or how they are feeling on that given day. 

Eh... So I take how my day went, then mix around sounds through feelings. It helps me. I Love my Siblings. I still keep on trying.

Blooming Into Time

Ups & Downs with Siblings

Lithium in America tells the not unfamiliar story of industry and government pushing forward huge energy projects with market driven exuberance despite local opposition and failure to consult with tribes. 

The film shines a light on these questionable practices as we interview leaders and members from 5 tribes with respect to 4 major projects in 3 states that are bellweathers of policy today, and which represent a common mindset and set of practices, however misguided.

-Dorece Sam (Pai-Sho)
-Josephine Dick (Pai-Sho)
-Will Falk, Attorney
-Max Wilbert, Author
-Preston Arrow-weed (Quechan)
-Faron Owl (Quechan)
-Luis Olmedo (Comite Civico Del Valle)
-Pat Gonzales Rogers, Yale School of the Environment
-Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland
-Naenlyn Pike (Apache)
-Matthew Leivas, Sr. (Chemehuevi)
-Sean Milanovich (Cahuilla)

Narration by Robert Lundahl
Written and Directed by Robert Lundahl

Produced by Robert Lundahl and Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone (Apache)

With Bradley Angel, Greenaction
and Preston Arrow-weed (Quechan)

According to Popular Mechanics Magazine, 

"This high concentration (of lithium) is found primarily at Thacker Pass in Nevada, and is already a controversial mining location. The area, also known as Peehee Mu'huh, is the homeland of many indigenous tribes and played an important role in its historical clash with U.S. soldiers. An indigenous organization dedicated to protecting the site even called potential mining operations a form of “green colonialism,” and is also engaged in stopping a mining site on the Oregon side of the caldera as well.

Apart from its cultural impact, any mining project in the area could also affect groundwater levels for local farmers and ranchers, not to mention its disruption to local fauna, such as pronghorn antelope, golden eagles, and sage grouse.

Right now, the McDermitt Caldera is a 40 million metric ton lithium conundrum with no clear answer."

Lithium In America

Pupfish. Little blue creatures endemic to pools upwelling amid rock strata at Ash Meadows.
Here on Creative FRONTLINE, we’ve done several shows on water in the West. Only not the same water from your tap exactly but the waters in springs, aquifers, and rivers, and now, Death Valley and it’s mysterious partially underground Amargosa River. 
Water moves good things and bad in the desert including radioactive materials from nuclear testing years ago.
We’re here with Amargosa Conservancy’s Mason Voehl, discussing the good, the bad, and the ugly. Pupfish are good.

Amargosa

Emmy® Award winning Filmmaker and Journalist

Dorece Sam (Paiute), Josephine Dick (Paiute), Young Warrior, Will Falk, Podcast/Thacker Pass

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