- Since it’s Thanksgiving, let’s take a moment to honor and give thanks to all the delicious foods on our tables that are Native foods--native to the lands we’re on, and that the Native peoples here ate for thousands of years. Turkey, pumpkin, cranberries, potatoes--all Native. And for those who might be increasingly uncomfortable with the Thanksgiving myth, why not consider calling the fourth Thursday of the month Indigenous Foods Day?
- Civil Eats has a killer piece on making the turkey a part of a larger system of regenerative agriculture.
- Speaking of ag, a federal appeals court has upheld a ruling in favor of North Carolina residents overwhelmed by a local Smithfield hog farm’s putrid odors.
- And it turns out the agriculture industry has a long way to go to meet climate goals. According to FERN: Progress toward limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius — the goal of the Paris Agreement — is “highly insufficient,” “off-track,” “too slow,” and “inadequate” across almost every key sector: power, buildings, industry, transport, agriculture, and forests, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the ClimateWorks Foundation said Wednesday in their State of Climate Action report.
- Is it any surprise that Native Americans are ahead of the curve on climate change resiliency? The understanding of our shared world is inherently different: “The salmon and the crabs and the clams are relatives. They’re living relatives. They’re not just resources. And so you treat them with a symbiotic respect. They feed you because you take care of them.”
Local artist Paul Arsenault of Arsenault Studio & Banyan Arts Gallery in Naples has created a short video that tells his story and journey to supporting the rights of nature.
Paul and Rights of Nature.mov
We recently reported on the dead end the M-CORES toll roads are likely hitting. Check out that story and all our environmental coverage here.
Got an environment story or tip to share? Email Valerie Vande Panne at Vvandepanne @ wgcu.org.