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On today's newscast: Stakeholders are unsure how Trump could change management of the Colorado River, conservationists are working to preserve a historic ranch near Prescott, and proposed changes won't fix congestion in Sedona. Plus, Grand Canyon Trust on what they expect from a new administration.

Jim Enote is back to share his valuable insights on funding Indigenous communities.Jim discusses the importance of fostering genuine partnerships between donors and nonprofits, highlighting both success stories and lessons learned from his own experiences. Episode Highlights:Funding Indigenous communities with respect and empathyTrust-based giving and engagementJim Enote Bio:Jim Enote is a Zuni tribal member and CEO of the Colorado Plateau Foundation, which invests in Native-led organizations on the Colorado Plateau. As a counselor to the philanthropic community, he connects, engages, and leverages funding to support regional issues. Enote's service over the past 45 years includes natural resources, cultural resources, philanthropic, and art assignments for many domestic and international organizations. He serves on the Trust for Mutual Understanding Board, is the Chair of the Board at the Grand Canyon Trust and is on the Governing Council of the Wilderness Society. He is a Carnegie Foundation Senior Fellow and National Geographic Society Explorer. He lives in his work-in-progress home at Zuni, New Mexico, where he is also a lifelong traditional farmer.Links:Website: https://coloradoplateaufoundation.org If you enjoyed this episode, listen to these as well:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/175-be-effective-at-supporting-nonprofits-to-work-together/id1556900518?i=1000652465880 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/149-indigenous-peoples-day-special-episode-with-erik/id1556900518?i=1000630664943https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/129-giving-well-to-indigenous-communities-with-jim/id1556900518?i=1000613959979Crack the Code: Sybil's Successful Guide to PhilanthropyBecome even better at what you do as Sybil teaches you the strategies and tools you'll need to avoid mistakes and make a career out of philanthropy.Sybil offers resources including free mini-course videos, templates, checklists, and words of advice summarized in easy to review pdfs. Check out Sybil's website with all the latest opportunities to learn from Sybil at https://www.doyourgood.comConnect with Do Your Goodhttps://www.facebook.com/doyourgoodhttps://www.instagram.com/doyourgoodWould you like to talk with Sybil directly?Send in your inquiries through her website https://www.doyourgood.com/ or you can email her directly at sybil@doyourgood.com.

In this episode, Web talks again to his longtime friend and colleague, David Gowdey, about working as an environmental advocate.  The conversation begins by acknowledging that in the past, all hunters were also conservationists who worked to maintain the natural world and the animals that lived in it.  As Web and Dave are both bird hunters, they have experienced firsthand the significant changes and declines in habitat and bird populations and have been involved in efforts to restore habitat and prevent its destruction. Learn more: https://freerangedogs.com/ep-31-making-a-difference-in-our-environment/

Joe Biden pone fin de manera práctica a la minería de Uranio en los alrededores del Gran Cañón. El presidente de Estados Unidos ha anunciado el nombramiento como monumento nacional de la zona, restringiendo de manera permanente su extracción. La decisión ha sido hecha pública en Arizona, primera parada de dentro de una gira por el oeste en la que quiere destacar su apuesta por la protección del medioambiente de cara campaña para las presidenciales de 2024. La decisión del presidente estadounidense, Joe Biden, de nombrar “monumento nacional” una vasta zona alrededor del Gran Cañón tiene una implicación importante por la que activistas y tribus llevan años peleando.El nuevo estatuto de estas tierras, de una superficie de 400.000 hectáreas, pondrá fin de manera definitiva a la minería de uranio en la zona. La extracción de este mineral está restringida desde 2012 de manera temporal, pero ahora la prohibición será permanente.Dentro del Gran Cañón no hay ninguna mina activa, pero sí en los alrededores, además de haber proyectos y solicitudes para nuevas puestas en marcha.Según el grupo conservacionista hispano HECHO, además de la preservación histórica y turística, hay un riesgo muy importante, como explica su portavoz Daniela Zavala.“Salvaguarda las fuentes vitales de agua para la vida silvestre y millones de personas en la región. La minería de uranio aquí en Arizona ha causado estragos en el pasado, especialmente en las tierras de las comunidades indígenas. En el 2008, varias agencias gubernamentales, tribales y federales identificaron 29 fuentes de agua con niveles de uranio que excedían los estándares de agua potable segura en la nación navajo”, subraya.“El río Colorado recorre 277 millas a través del Parque Nacional del Gran cañón y la extracción de uranio alrededor de este ícono de Arizona era una amenaza para esta fuente de agua crítica para alrededor de 40.000.000 de personas que dependen de ella”, destaca Zavala.¿Pero es necesario minar uranio en la zona? Según la Administración de Información Energética nacional, en 2021, último registro antes de la guerra en Ucrania, Estados Unidos apenas producía el 5% del uranio consumido por sus centrales nucleares. El resto, lo importaba.Además, según The Grand Canyon Trust, con las estimaciones más optimistas el uranio potencialmente minable en la zona apenas supone el 2,5% de las reservas nacionales. Unas cifras que para Daniela Zavala no justifican el riesgo.“La cantidad de uranio que se puede extraer del Gran Cañón es insignificante y el riesgo de extraer uranio en estas áreas de tierras públicas alrededor del Gran Cañón no valen la pena. El riesgo por esa cantidad de uranio que se puede extraer”, concluye la militante ecologista.La administración Biden ha confirmado no obstante que esta decisión prohibirá los nuevos proyectos de explotación de uranio, pero no afecta los derechos mineros ya existentes.

The Grand Canyon Trust, an organization dedicated to preserving the Grand Canyon and the Colorado Plateau, initiated the Pinyon Jay project to involve volunteers in wildlife conservation. Pinyon Jays have a symbiotic relationship with pinyon trees, making them a key marker in forest preservation for the pinyon and juniper forests dotting the Colorado Plateau. The project aims to gather data and protect the ecosystem while engaging amateur birders and outdoor enthusiasts, making the project accessible to everyone. By Hannah Robertson.Watch this story at www.durangolocal.news/newsstories/counting-birds-for-preservation This story is sponsored by CMIT Solutions and Three Rivers BrewerySupport the show

Jim Enote joins Sybil for a special bonus episode. He shares what he has been doing since his last appearance on the podcast, and then shares his wisdom for those who want to give to indigenous communities. Jim explains how to give in a righteous way that reflects equality, fairness, and respect. Episode Highlights:Give from a place of support and empowerment, not guiltTrust those you are giving Jim Enote Bio:Jim Enote is a Zuni tribal member and CEO of the Colorado Plateau Foundation. He serves on the boards of the Trust for Mutual Understanding, and Grand Canyon Trust, and formally with Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation. He is a National Geographic Society Explorer, a New Mexico Community Luminaria, and an E.F. Schumacher Society Fellow.Jim's service over the past forty years includes natural resource, cultural resource, philanthropic, and arts assignments for many organizations including UNESCO, UNDP, International Secretariat for Water, Nordic Council of Ministers, Tibet Child Nutrition Project, the Mountain Institute, National Geographic Society, US Bureau of Indian Affairs, US National Park Service, Zuni Tribe, and several major charitable foundations, museums, and universities. He has written in Heritage In the Context of Globalization; Science, Technology, and Human Values; Sacredness as a Means to Conservation; Mapping Our Places; Indigenous People and Sustainable Development; A:shiwi A:wan Ulohnanne, and Redrock Stories, to name a few. Recent short pieces include; We Cannot Live by Sentiments Alone, The Museum Collaboration Manifesto, Buyer Beware, What I Tell Boys, and Please Don't Call Me a Warrior.In 2010 while serving as the director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum Jim was awarded the first Ames Prize for Innovative Museum Anthropology during the American Anthropological Association's annual conference. In 2013 he received the Guardian of Culture and Lifeways Award from the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums, and in 2016 received the Hewett Award for leadership and service to the New Mexico museum community and for achievements in the museum field. He lives in his work in-progress home at Zuni, New Mexico.Links:Colorado Plateau Foundation: https://coloradoplateaufoundation.org support page for CPF: https://coloradoplateaufoundation.org/support/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-enote-32a368120 Comic Book “Stand Up”: https://issuu.com/coloradoplateaufoundation/docs/stand_up_4_ If you enjoyed this episode, listen to these as well:· https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/leveraging-public-dollars· https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/35-jim-enoteCrack the Code: Sybil's Successful Guide to PhilanthropyBecome even better at what you do as Sybil teaches you the strategies as well as the tools you'll need to avoid mistakes and make a career out of philanthropy through my new course, Crack the Code!In this new course you'll gain access to beautifully animated and engaging videos, along with many other resources. Link for the waitlist for the Philanthropy Accelerator https://www.doyourgood.com/Philanthropy-Accelerator-Mastermind-WaitlistLink to the nonprofit email sign-up to connect https://www.doyourgood.com/ticket-to-fundraisingCheck out her website with all the latest opportunities to learn from Sybil at www.doyourgood.comConnect with Do Your Goodhttps://www.facebook.com/doyourgoodhttps://www.instagram.com/doyourgoodWould you like to talk with Sybil directly?Send in your inquiries through her website https://www.doyourgood.com/ or you can email her directly at sybil@doyourgood.com!

White Mesa Mill in San Juan County has been in violation of the Clean Air Act for nearly three years. Energy Fuels, the company that owns the mill, made an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency to have their tailings cells in compliance by the end of March 2023. KZMU reporter Emily Arntsen joined public land advocates from EcoFlight and Grand Canyon Trust on a flight over the mill to check if the tailing cells were finally in compliance. Plus, we hear from our partners at Rocky Mountain Community Radio and KHOL in Jackson, WY, about recent changes in abortion laws. Show Notes: //Photo: White Mesa Mill's tailings cells violate the Clean Air Act. Photo by Emily Arntsen //KHOL: Wyoming's recent abortion ban is reversed – for now https://891khol.org/wyomings-recent-abortion-ban-is-reversed-for-now/

Sybil has a very special interview for you today. She had a wonderful conversation with Jim Enote, a Zuni Tribal Member, farmer, and Executive Director of the Colorado Plateau Foundation. In season one, Sybil interviewed him at length twice because his advice is so wonderful for donors who want to give effectively to Indigenous communities. Sybil has profiled some of her favorite parts of Jim's conversation in this episode, and they are here for you today to listen to. Episode Highlights:Ensure your ideas about what you want to give align with the mission of the organizationBuild your relationship on trustTalk with Indigenous communities from a place of opportunity and hopeJim Enote Bio:Jim Enote is a Zuni tribal member and has spent over 40 years working professionally to protect and steward cultural and natural resources. He is the CEO of the Colorado Plateau Foundation, which supports regional Native communities to protect water and sacred places, ensure food security, and preserve languages and ancestral knowledge. He also serves as the chair of the board of trustees for the Grand Canyon Trust and lives in Zuni, New Mexico.Link: Website: https://www.grandcanyontrust.orgLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-enote-32a368120Colorado Plateau Foundation https://coloradoplateaufoundation.org/Candid https://candid.org/Native Americans in Philanthropy https://nativephilanthropy.org/Fact Sheet and Info about the Colorado Plateau Foundation https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eoOBjHx986wjjkvdiweCylQ18VuK8fQC/view?usp=sharingIllustrated Story of the Colorado Plateau Foundation https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BJfcmjBFe-eNkgAsh6cpirpEjqjZY5AR/view?usp=sharingIf you enjoyed this episode, listen to these as well:https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/35-jim-enotehttps://www.doyourgood.com/blog/32-anupama-joshihttps://www.doyourgood.com/blog/25-sybil-speaksCrack the Code: Sybil's Successful Guide to Philanthropy Become even better at what you do as Sybil teaches you the strategies as well as the tools, you'll need to avoid mistakes and make a career out of philanthropy through my new course, Crack the Code!In this new course, you'll gain access to beautifully animated and filmed engaging videos, and many more! Link for the wait list for the Philanthropy Accelerator https://www.doyourgood.com/Philanthropy-Accelerator-Mastermind-Waitlist Link to the nonprofit email sign-up to connect https://www.doyourgood.com/ticket-to-fundraising Check out her website with all the latest opportunities to learn from Sybil at www.doyourgood.com. Connect with Do Your Goodhttps://www.facebook.com/doyourgood https://www.instagram.com/doyourgood Would you like to talk with Sybil directly? Send in your inquiries through her website https://www.doyourgood.com/ or you can email her directly at sybil@doyourgood.com!

On this episode of The Landscape, Kate and Aaron are joined by Grand Canyon Trust staff attorney Michael Toll to discuss a plan to mine hundreds of thousands of barrels of waxy crude oil in Utah near Dinosaur National Monument, using billions of gallons of Colorado River Water. A loophole in Utah law enabled an […] The post Fighting a plan to mine oil in Utah using billions of gallons of Colorado River water appeared first on Center for Western Priorities.

Join Harry Potter and Ron Weasley as they go #beyondFLG with Dawn Kish, photographer, conservationist, and documentary filmmaker. The subject of Dawn's work includes documenting stories of indigenous folks in the Southwest, hanging off walls in Yosemite, and other various adventure activities. Some of her clients include Arizona Highways, Grand Canyon Trust, National Geographic, Patagonia, and Sports Illustrated. She also worked as a river guide for the USGS and describes the “river as being a part of her, it is in her heart and soul.” As a film director, Dawn directed the short film, “Can't Beat This Place for Fun” which was shown at the Mountain Film Fest in 2021. This film was an ode to a local boat shop that keeps the tradition of wooden boat building alive while honoring the story of Martin Litton's Grand Canyon Dory. Currently, Dawn is in the process of shooting a new film titled, “Tad's Emerging World.” A super compelling idea in which Dawn is documenting the epic landscape of Glen Canyon using an old Crown Graphic 4x5 camera, which was used by Tad Nichols to document Glen Canyon in his book, “Glen Canyon: Images of Lost World.” In this episode, Dawn discusses the Tad project including its origins and what its been like creating thus far, what got her into photography, and her connection to Flagstaff. Thanks for joining us as we go #beyondFLG with Dawn Kish and don't forget to check out the links below. https://dawnkish.com https://www.gofundme.com/f/Tads-Emerging-World https://www.mountainfilm.org/festival/personalities/dawn-kish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGo_ETxD2HI

Involve those who matter, but the question is, who really matters?The most important voices to be heard are the voices of those who are directly impacted by what is happening. The communities being affected shouldn't be an outside party but should be brought to the table of decision-making.In this episode, Amber Reimondo, Energy Director of Grand Canyon Trust talks about how she started to be aware of what's happening around her and how it got her to what she's doing today. She also shares her knowledge of the impacts of mining on Native and Indigenous communities and her experience of working with different people in society.Listen up and understand more.Episode 9 at a glance:Amber's background and what got her interested in pursuing an undergraduate degree in environmental and national resourcesThe biggest changes Amber saw around her townAmber's career exposure in conservation projects Working with conservative people or people you don't agree withAmber's first experience  at the Grand Canyon and Colorado riverColorado Plateau, and the Grand Canyon TrustUranium mining and its dangersBringing the impacted community members to the table of decision makingThe ways people can help the impacted communitiesUntil the next episode!Today's Guest:Amber Reimondo is an Energy Director at Grand Canyon Trust.Grand Canyon Trust is an environmental non-profit organization that's focused on safeguarding the Grand Canyon and the Colorado Plateau while supporting the rights of native people.Connect and know more about Amber and Grand Canyon Trust here:Website: https://www.grandcanyontrust.org Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amberreimondo Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/amberw229 Find out how you can donate here: https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/donate About the host:Briana Sullivan is the Community Manager of Keep Nature Wild. Her passions for writing, trail running, and community building sparked and fires up the value that she brings to creating compelling and exciting content and campaign ideas.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/briana-sullivan-31602224/More about Keep Nature Wild:At Keep Nature Wild, we like to have fun outside. We share stories around the campfire. We look up at the stars. We dream big. We laugh—loudly. We bring that light-hearted spirit to every item we make and every outdoor cleanup we host.Our products are crazy cozy, super soft, and exceptionally comfy. We design outdoor apparel and accessories to bring a smile to your face, to brighten your day, to enable your next adventure, to spark connections, to build community, and to make our planet a better place.Website: https://keepnaturewild.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/keepnaturewild/

Shannon Baker lives on the edge of the desert in Tucson with her crazy Weimaraner and her favorite human. Baker spent 20 years in the Nebraska Sandhills, where cattle outnumber people by more than 50:1. She lived in Flagstaff for several years and worked for the Grand Canyon Trust, a hotbed of environmentalists who, usually, don't resort to murder. She is the proud recipient of Writer of the Year for 2014 and 2017-18 awarded by the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers.https://shannon-baker.com/Today's episode is brought to you by John's full series of crime thrillers available right now. You can get them through Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/John-A.-Hoda/e/B00BGPXBMM%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share  You can also sign up for the newsletter at http://www.JohnHoda.com to get a free copy of John's new novella Liberty City Nights.Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

A conservationist air force takes journalists and policy makers on trips above sensitive areas. Their latest flight looked at the country's last uranium mill, located in southeastern Utah. Today on the news, we take to the skies with the organization. Plus, it's the first week of reservations at Arches National Park. We hear from visitors about their experiences. // Show Notes // Photo: Tim Peterson, cultural landscapes director of Grand Canyon Trust boards a flight over the White Mesa Mill near Blanding on April 4th. // EcoFlight https://ecoflight.org // Arches National Park: Make Your Reservation https://www.nps.gov/arch/planyourvisit/timed-entry-reservation.htm

A new report from the Grand Canyon Trust calls the White Mesa Mill outside of Blanding “America's cheapest radioactive waste dump.” The environmental group and representatives of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe want the mill to be regulated like one. Plus, seven young Utahns filed a lawsuit this week against the state because of its policies related to fossil fuel development. And, researchers in our region have developed a remote-control robot that can alert safety inspectors of potential rockslides. // And later, the Weekly News Reel, where we check in with reporters on their latest stories of the Moab area. Sophia Fisher of The Times-Independent discusses SITLA pursuing a large land swap with the BLM, portable toilets installed in the Willow Springs area, and rising gas prices. Alison Harford of the Moab Sun News discusses proposed apartments that may displace another trailer court in downtown Moab, the cancellation of the latest Book Cliffs Highway project, and the Backyard Theater reopening for the season. // Show Notes // Photo: The White Mesa Uranium Mill. The Grand Canyon Trust and members of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe want the mill to be regulated like a waste dump. Credit Tim Peterson flown by EcoFlight // Grand Canyon Trust: Waste Dump Next Door https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/blog/bears-ears-and-radioactive-waste-dump-next-door // Energy Fuels https://www.energyfuels.com // KUER: Youth sue Utah over fossil fuel development-friendly laws https://www.kuer.org/health-science-environment/2022-03-17/youth-sue-utah-over-fossil-fuel-development-friendly-laws // Weekly News Reel Mentions: // The Times-Independent: SITLA pursues Bears Ears land swap BLM https://www.moabtimes.com/articles/sitla-pursues-bears-ears-land-swap-with-blm/ // The Times-Independent: ‘igotpoop' is back for another season on public lands https://www.moabtimes.com/articles/igotpoop-is-back-for-another-season-on-public-lands/ // The Times-Independent: ‘My wife was taking pictures of the pumps' https://www.moabtimes.com/articles/my-wife-was-taking-pictures-of-the-pumps-2/ // Moab Sun News: Proposed apartments would increase available homes, but may displace current tenants https://www.moabsunnews.com/news/article_ff207d70-a6da-11ec-a315-d38fa0a455b2.html // Moab Sun News: Book Cliffs Highway project canceled https://www.moabsunnews.com/news/article_f7157756-a6db-11ec-9b10-63630d5cd4c3.html // Moab Sun News: Backyard Theater opens for the season https://www.moabsunnews.com/get_out_and_go/article_01c70d76-a6d8-11ec-8194-6f7d533d21c1.html

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals hears arguments in Grand Canyon Trust v. Heather Provencio, No. 20-16401, on August 30, 2021. Audio Source: https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/audio/?20210830/20-16401/ Cover photo by Jake Eldridge/Cronkite News

Shannon Baker is author of the Kate Fox Mystery series. Set in rural Nebraska cattle country, according to a starred review in Library Journal, "Baker's writing evokes the beauty of the Nebraska Sandhills, and her colorful cast of secondary characters adds a depth of charm." Now a resident of Tucson, Baker spent 20 years in the Nebraska Sandhills, where cattle outnumber people by more than 50:1. Shannon is proud to have been chosen Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers' 2014 and 2017 Writer of the Year. Baker also writes the Nora Abbott mystery series, a fast-paced mix of Hopi Indian mysticism, environmental issues, and murder. The first in the series, Height of Deception, is set in Flagstaff, AZ, where she lived for several years and worked for The Grand Canyon Trust, a hotbed of environmentalists who, usually, don't resort to murder. It was a 2013 finalist in the New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards. A lover of the great outdoors, she can be found backpacking in the Rockies, traipsing to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, skiing mountains and plains, kayaking lakes, hiking, cycling, and diving whenever she gets the chance. Having the desert for a backyard is a daily thrill, bringing javelinas, rattlesnakes, zillions of birds, and spectacular sunsets every day. Arizona sunsets notwithstanding, Baker is, and always will be, a Nebraska Husker. Go Big Red. Shannon's website: https://shannon-baker.com/ Shannon's amazing video trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxhkI0ODZIA Intro Music by Moby Gratis: https://mobygratis.com/ Outro Music by Dan-o-Songs: https://danosongs.com/

Once again I have invited Jim Enote to the podcast, a Zuni indigenous member and current leader of the Colorado Plateau Foundation.  With such an array of indigenous communities in the United States alone, it's important that we as funders learn how to best give them many diverse opportunities. With a plethora of knowledge and first-hand experience, Jim shares his knowledge and advice for funding these communities. If you're looking to find out ways you can help support the indigenous community even more then check out this week's episode.   Episode Highlights: Jim's background  Why location matters when it comes to supporting our indigenous communities The movement of young members starting nonprofits Leadership and governance What identity means to Jim  What language means to Jim  The best way to fund these communities  The power of communication    Our Guest: Jim Enote, Zuni Indigenous Member CEO Colorado Plateau Foundation Board Chair of the Grand Canyon Trust  LinkedIn   Links referenced in this podcast If you're enjoying the podcast and want to check out more of what I have to offer then click here. On my website, you can sign up for my free training, online courses, free resources, as well as my paid resources.  Check out my “Giving With Purpose” course over here.  If you liked this interview with Jim then check out my first interview with him by clicking this link. Check out Jim's organization by clicking this link. Check out these other organizations if you want to help the indigenous community! International Funders for Indigenous People  Native Americans and Philanthropy  Zuni Youth Enrichment Project Utah Dine Bikeyah    If you enjoyed this episode, listen to these as well: #34 Sybil Speaks: Reach Your Best Fundraising Potential #33 Sybil Speaks: The Four Best Options to Outsource Your Giving Strategy for Maximum Impact #32 Creating Meaningful Connections with Anupama Joshi, Executive Director, Blue Sky Funders   Crack the Code: Sybil's Successful Guide to Philanthropy Become even better at what you do as I teach you the strategies as well as the tools you'll need to avoid mistakes and make a career out of philanthropy through my new course, Crack the Code! In this new course, you'll gain access to beautifully animated and filmed engaging videos (one per week for a total of 8 weeks), and many more! Check out her website soon with all the latest opportunities to learn from Sybil at www.doyourgood.com.   Connect with Do Your Good Facebook @doyourgood Instagram @doyourgood Don't forget to check out the #DoYourGoodChallenge and get a chance to win prizes as you give with a purpose!   Would you like to talk with Sybil directly? Send in your inquiries through her website www.doyourgood.com, or you can email her directly at sybil@doyourgood.com!

Today's guest, Jim who is a Zuni Tribal member, was already exposed to the injustices of this world at a very young age. As he became more aware and learned the asymmetry of power in our society, he was motivated and inspired to do something for the native people and other communities. Join me in this episode as I interview Jim Enote, a Zuni Tribal member and also the CEO at Colorado Plateau Foundation, as he talks about his inspiration for philanthropy and how you can support indigenous communities!   Episode Highlights: Jim's motivation for entering the world of philanthropy Funding the gaps Being accountable to those that we are in service to Jim's favorite grants How you can engage in supporting indigenous communities   Our Guest: Jim Enote, Zuni Tribal Member CEO Colorado Plateau Foundation Board Chair of the Grand Canyon Trust  LinkedIn   Links referenced in this Podcast: Colorado Plateau Foundation Environmental Grant Makers Association Council of Foundations EDGE Funders International Funders of Indigenous People Native Americans in Philanthropy Candid If you enjoyed this episode, listen to these episodes as well #25 Sybil Speaks: Get To The Heart Of The Matter And Figure Out The Kind Of Funder You Want To Be #24 Sybil Speaks: Learn Not To Do Harm With Your Funding Strategy #23 Do What You Know Best to Fill A Gap and Help to Create a Nonprofit from Scratch with Nellie McAdams, Executive Director, Oregon Agricultural Trust, and John Paul, Owner, Cameron Winery   Crack the Code: Sybil's Successful Guide to Philanthropy Become even better at what you do as I teach you the strategies as well as the tools you'll need to avoid mistakes and make a career out of philanthropy through my new course, Crack the Code! In this new course, you'll gain access to beautifully animated and filmed short 5-10 minute engaging videos (one per week for a total of 8 weeks), and many more!  I am limiting the overall size of this course to no more than 30 so that you can have a personal and interactive experience learning from me - space is limited sign up soon for the early bird discount! Cart opens on June 7 and closes on June 13. Don't miss out on this wonderful opportunity to be an effective funder while creating a long-lasting positive impact! You can sign up and read more about the course here!   Connect with Do Your Good Facebook @doyourgood Instagram @doyourgood Don't forget to check out the #DoYourGoodChallenge and get a chance to win prizes as you give with a purpose!   Would you like to talk with Sybil directly? Send in your inquiries through her website www.doyourgood.com, or you can email her directly at sybil@doyourgood.com!

This episode celebrates some of the (many) things we love about our National Parks. Writer and filmmaker Dayton Duncan (The National Parks: America's Best Idea) details some of the history behind the National Parks, and his most memorable filming experiences; Sarana Riggs, member of the Navajo Nation, speaks on the Indigenous roots of Grand Canyon National Park and the ongoing work Grand Canyon Trust does to preserve this legacy; Lauren Gay, aka Outdoorsy Diva, shares some of her favorite National Park experiences and some helpful tips for novices; Matt and Brad from Hello Ranger talk about the bats at Carlsbad, the best National Parks to bring your dog, and much more. Oh, and here's a link to Thrillist Caravan (the trip we mention at the end of the show!) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Located just three miles from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe’s White Mesa community and one mile from Bears Ears National Monument, the White Mesa Uranium Mill was originally designed to run for 15 years before being closed and cleaned up. 40 years later, the mill is still in operation, and community members are concerned about the mill's continued impacts on public and environmental health, as well as the mill’s ongoing desecration of cultural and sacred sites. As the last remaining conventional uranium processing mill in the country, will the White Mesa Mill become the world's radioactive waste dump? We speak with Yolanda Badback from White Mesa Concerned Community and Talia Boyd, Cultural Landscapes Program Manager with the Grand Canyon Trust, about the nuclear fuel cycle, impacts to Indigenous communities, and what you can do to help stop ongoing harm by closing and cleaning up the mill. Wild Utah is made possible by the contributing members of SUWA. Our theme music, “What’s Worth?” was written and performed in Moab by Haley Noel Austin.

When you observe bees buzzing around flowers and plants, it can feel like the ecosystem is in healthy harmony. But, dip your nose in these issues a little closer, and there’s often a lot more going on. Conservation groups like the Grand Canyon Trust are raising alarm bells about the impacts of commercial honeybees on native bees and their ecosystems. Earlier this summer, they filed a legal petition with federal public lands agencies asking to stop the placement of commercial honeybees on national forest lands without “proper environmental review” of such impacts. Today on the news, we learn more about these tensions. Plus, our roundup with The Times-Independent. Staff writer Carter Pape reviews some notable coverage in their paper this week, including teacher salary raises, the sentencing of a Northern Utah man in a double fatal crash, and a lawsuit related to the county form of governance. Show Notes: Photo: Thomas Meinzen/Grand Canyon Trust Grand Canyon Trust 7/29 Petition https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/sites/default/files/resources/APA-Petition-to-Forest-Service-on-Apiary-CEs-7-29-20.pdf Grand Canyon Trust Literature: Native Bees Need Your Help https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/sites/default/files/resources/Bee_Flyer.pdf Manti-La Sal National Forest Planning https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/mantilasal/landmanagement/planning The Times-Independent Mentions – GCSD reveals budget errors https://moabtimes.com/2020/08/27/gcsd-reveals-budget-errors/ Teachers get raises: Increases exceed staff’s mentions https://moabtimes.com/2020/08/27/teachers-get-raises-increases-exceed-staffs-proposal/ Change the alarm clocks: School bells to ring a bit later as hours are cut https://moabtimes.com/2020/08/27/change-the-alarm-clocks-school-bells-to-ring-a-bit-later-as-hours-are-cut/ Northern Utah man sentenced is double fatal crash https://moabtimes.com/2020/08/27/northern-utah-man-sentenced-in-double-fatal-crash/ Form of Governance: County faces lawsuit over ballot questions https://moabtimes.com/2020/08/27/form-of-governance-county-faces-lawsuit-over-ballot-questions/

Travis View, podcaster, on QAnon. Magician Joshua Jay on prisoners learning magic. Sarana Riggs of Grand Canyon Trust on a proposed dam project near the Grand Canyon. Charles Hillman of Northeastern Univ on exercise making people smarter. Leonardo Trasande of New York Univ on IQ Loss from toxic chemicals. Jeffrey Miller of Colorado State Univ on his book "Avocado: A Global History".

Meet Heather Fleming Development Lead and founder of Rez Rising and colleague, Singer Horse Capture Native American Program Associate of Grand Canyon Trust with Krystal Cedeno and Wilma Noah of the Native Learning Center. Listen in on this week’s podcast where they will discuss a new cellphone application that can change how Native American Business owners can be more visible. Rez Rising is a first of its kind application that will bring much needed visibility to these businesses

*Saturday Extra* There was a recent victory in the pro-wilderness world – a plan by the Bureau of Land Management to clearcut more than 30,000 acres of pinyon-juniper forest and sagebrush stands within Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument was overturned by a federal appeals board. The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, along with the Western Watersheds Project, the Wilderness Society, and the Grand Canyon Trust brought the appeal. On the extended newscast, SUWA wildlands attorney Kya Marienfeld speaks about this victory, the history of ripping out pinyon-juniper forest, and what placing more attention on these issues could mean for the future.

*Saturday Extra* Utah is home to some of the most diverse native bee populations in the nation with 1,128 recorded in the state. These species pollinate flowers and plants essential to our native ecosystems. But some experts say that native bees are vulnerable, especially in light of a potential plan that would store private honey bees on Utah’s National Forests, including the Manti-La Sals. They say the honey bees will outcompete and displace native bees in their habitat, changing the ecosystem. Today on the extended newscast, we speak with Mary O’Brien, the Utah Forest Program Director for conservation group Grand Canyon Trust. She and Grand County beekeeper Jerry Shue are presenting this complicated bee issue during a public talk next week. [Photo: Western bumblebee, Bombus occidentalis. Courtesy of Grand Canyon Trust]

Under a new proposal, the United States Forest Service (USFS) is seeking to do away with 98% of the cases where the public would be able to comment and participate in project (timber harvesting, road building, etc.) scoping and design under the National Environmental Policy Act or NEPA. NEPA is not well understood and something we often take for granted; but it is absolutely critical. It is the means by which the public and conservation groups provide input and oversight to our federal land managers. We must maintain a properly functioning NEPA so we are not kept in the dark and to ensure that Forest Service lands are being managed for the greatest public benefit.In this episode, I speak with Mary O'Brien of the Grand Canyon Trust for clarity and context. *** Please make your voice heard! Head on over to www.ourforestsourvoice.org Deadline is August 12th. Tell the Forest Service that you value NEPA and it must not be compromised.***Support the show (http://www.wildernesspodcast.com/support)

Anne Mariah chats with Matt about the economic and environmental impacts of uranium milling and nuclear waste storage near Blanding, Utah. Anne Mariah describes the White Mesa Mill, the last conventional uranium mill in North America. Its nuclear waste pits, nearby residents and advocates say, pose some serious concerns regarding groundwater contamination and public health. While acknowledging White Mesa is a significant employer in San Juan County, Anne Mariah emphasizes the long-term economic value of protecting public health and the local environment.  For more information, check out news coverage of a recent march by White Mesa Concerned Community, a native-led grassroots organization. You can also learn more by watching a short film about the mill and by checking out Grand Canyon Trust on the Web, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Anne Mariah chats with Matt about the economic and environmental impacts of uranium milling and nuclear waste storage near Blanding, Utah. Anne Mariah describes the White Mesa Mill, the last conventional uranium mill in North America. Its nuclear waste pits, nearby residents and advocates say, pose some serious concerns regarding groundwater contamination and public health. While acknowledging White Mesa is a significant employer in San Juan County, Anne Mariah emphasizes the long-term economic value of protecting public health and the local environment.  For more information, check out news coverage of a recent march by White Mesa Concerned Community, a native-led grassroots organization. You can also learn more by watching a short film about the mill and by checking out Grand Canyon Trust on the Web, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Euan Morton (KGIII in Hamilton Broadway) is back again this week! We talk Taboo, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Doctor Who, and tons of Hamilton stories including forgetting King George III's crown (twice!) and how Euan will occasionally fangirl over his fellow castmates at the stage door. Grand Canyon Trust https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/  

FRi Research put on a workshop to discuss ecosystem based management(EBM) with multiple stakeholders and land managers. This workshop came with a lot of great ideas and perhaps a new way of thinking about landscape management. EBM is a way of thinking about the entire ecological picture instead of focusing on individual aspects like timber, biodiversity, water, habitat, etc. EBM gets us to look at all the values and manage them simultaneously creating a more holistic and well balanced approach to ecological management. Ed Grumbine, currently the Land Programs Director for the Grand Canyon Trust, is also known as one of the founders of this way of thinking and he was kind enough to come speak with me about this concept. Thanks to FRi for putting this on and there is one more episode on this to come with David Andison next week.

A conversation with Amber Reimondo and Roger Clark from the Grand Canyon Trust about the history and possible future of uranium mining and contamination near the Grand Canyon. Then CWP's Greg Zimmerman walks us through uranium claims near Bears Ears National Monument. The post Uranium at the Grand Canyon and Bears Ears appeared first on Center for Western Priorities.

A conversation with Amber Reimondo and Roger Clark from the Grand Canyon Trust about the history and possible future of uranium mining and contamination near the Grand Canyon. Then CWP's Greg Zimmerman walks us through uranium claims near Bears Ears National Monument.

Host Lisa Kiefer speaks with innovative business development leader, Tony Skrelunas about new community-based initiatives and social ventures that create paths to entrepreneurship for Native Americans while respecting culture, tradition and environment.TRANSCRIPTSpeaker 1:Method to the madness is next. You're listening to method to the madness of public affairs show on k a l x Berkeley celebrating innovation. I'm your host, Lisa Kiefer. And today I'm speaking with Tony Skrelunas, the foremost expert on community-based development and it's one of the most respected native American leaders in the U s welcome to the program, Tony. Hello. So that's Navajo, [00:00:30] right? You work a lot in economic development with tribes. What do you see as the major, your Speaker 2:problem or problems today? Well, background, um, I come from Navajo land in, in our way. It's appropriate to introduce ourselves and our traditional way. I am a Twitter genie, which is bitter water clan and born for the Lithuanian peoples. I'm here. Yeah. Lithuanian. The idea. Yes. Yesterday it happens. Yeah. I was raised by my great grandparents, um, in the a real traditional [00:01:00] way. The place is called big mountain. It is considered a very traditional place. Um, and we've suffered a lot. This is the place where we've had a, a long standing land dispute. It's a place where mining has happened. We've had a lot of impacts of coal mining, oil and gas. So that's still a lot of extractive. And, and I saw how it impacted our people. And so that's why I got so interested in economic development. And then, um, by way of my career, I was, um, for a time a head [00:01:30] of commerce for our Navajo nation. Speaker 2:Well, that area, now when nation is the size of West Virginia, it's 25,000 square miles. Uh, we have 110 communities. We're a sovereign nation. We, um, covered a four corners, uh, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico. We're also the largest private land owner in the southwest. We have a real progressive, um, land acquisition program. There's a lot of, um, attention to Navajo because we're the largest, but [00:02:00] we also have a language still. We still have our ways. You know, we're, we domesticated, uh, sheep just as an example, is the first domesticated animal in, in the United States. And Dino, the story goes to the Spaniards brought some across over 500 years ago. And then we domesticated it. And, and uh, so there, there's a, a sheep called the Navajo. True. It's the first domesticated animal in the country. But, uh, we, we have a long tradition of, um, sheep herding and of, of really ecological [00:02:30] traditional knowledge passage on from elders to youth. Speaker 2:And that's really ensured our survival. We've been here for time and memorial research shows maybe 30,000 years though. So we've lived sustainably. We, uh, we migrated around, we moved around. We have a lot of different clans, like over 80 plans in terms of, um, challenges of economy. We're, we're a very young economy. Government was set up in 1923 as a formal structure. The federal government needed somebody to leases [00:03:00] and exploration of oil, gas, and coal. So in early 1923, they, they created what's called business council. A lot of the policies for really up to the 1960s was about culturating the native American take the savage out of the native, you know, it's a boarding school systems. The, um, the treaties, the way they were written, not only was policy like that, but when the government helped us, you know, they in essence handpicked her early leaders and of course the early leaders, they believed in that acculturation. Speaker 2:[00:03:30] Uh, a lot of them say, you know, didn't believe that we should have anything cultural. We shouldn't have our, our languages that are only way to, to success is to westernize our whole systems. You know, creating business include business opportunity. And that really was the case up till really recently, the reservation system was set up. They moved the tribes. You know, we, we march 500 miles, thousands of our people and a lot of them died in the 1850s when, when they moved our people to Fort Sumner, New Mexico [00:04:00] in the winter, thousands of our people died on that March. They rounded up, they burnt down our, um, corn fields, our homes, they killed our sheep. You know, again, we, we've been hurting 500 years. We're really the, the sheep hurting tribe of the world. That's something that we've always wrestled with is when government helped us build an economy, it was very resource, extractive oriented and it was very westernized. Speaker 2:It's what they really tried to bring into to our nation that really always clashed with our [00:04:30] communities. To this day, our government still is centralize, but newer generation, we've worked to change that structure to allow communities because communities is where it's at. Again, we have 110, we call them chapters. Yeah. We call them chapters and then taught nods and that is what we call them taught. Doesn't that in those communities we all have, the language that's primarily spoken in, in any meeting on government is still our Navajo language. You know, there's always been a clash between Westernized, top-down [00:05:00] economic pursuit versus community based. I'm a culturally appropriate, environmentally sensitive, uh, approaches. Only until recently, has there been a breakthroughs and crafting tools that allow for communities to innovate? We're fighting to system of ingrained. Um, it's really entrenched. Um, um, system of top-down development approaches. Yeah. Speaker 2:So meaning capitalistic. And for a long [00:05:30] time, many of the young Navajos that were getting MBAs, they really were trained in that way. They really got rid of their culture, but now more and more of us, and you can see that on our website, you can see that and the rhetoric of our nation now is that a lot of us still speak our language or some of us are very fluent still, but we see a different way. We see that we have to, we almost have to embrace who we are and build an economy around that. We have to create financing tools, business development [00:06:00] tools. We have our wait community planning tools that really engage all facets of the community. We're changing things. When did you decide what had to be done and how you were going to do that when you live a traditional way? Speaker 2:We didn't have one home. Navajo has always moved. You know when we lived traditional it means we grew up in the thing called a Hogan. Just as an example. It's a very ancient, it's like a temple of learning and sharing. A lot of times our parents had to work far away. So we were raised [00:06:30] by grandparents were raised hurting sheep. We monitored the land, we monitored the grasses, we monitored the sheet behavior and, and where the water's available. The same with farming. A lot of us grew up, we all had corn fields. And again, you know, sometimes the land has to rest, you know, so you rotate. Yeah. So we rotated our areas. A lot of our work was very communal. It wasn't all about self interests. The Navajo teaching is that we survived 30,000 years. But [00:07:00] it was our responsibility as an individual Denette to, to make sure that our society survive for eternity. Speaker 2:You know? So we had to pass teachings and knowledge. We had to make sure that all people in our community knew the stories and the ways no family was about self interests, you know, so that, that's our traditionist that's what I was taught and that's what many of us are taught. Again, we're, we're really losing those ways to more westernized self-interests, you know. [00:07:30] Well then I was, um, getting my masters in business when the light went off. I was really concerned about the, the economic situation on Navajo land and that the top down nature of planning, top down approaches to, you know, most business power plants and coal mines and oil and gas and Westernized shopping centers. Um, nothing community base. And I saw that picture. So, um, and in Grad school I started writing [00:08:00] about what could be, how, how you could incorporate tourism and that like, and develop tourism development in, in a way that's culturally responsible. Speaker 2:And you create tools to protect a culture. There's ways, there's monitoring mechanisms, there's planning tools to really allow the community to, to plan for development, but do it in a way that is responsible to the elders and to the culture and to the latest. Yeah. And make some money in that. And so that, that's where that light bulb [00:08:30] went off. Um, I was very lucky that, um, I had a group that was willing to support me, uh, an organization called Grand Canyon trust and Flagstaff [inaudible] still the director. I'm still the director. I'm out with the native America program. One of the, the foundations really liked what I was doing for foundation was a, a real supporter. Uh, this is in the mid nineties. You know, one of the first assignments I was given as a Grad student was, um, a tripe called the Kaibab Paiute were considering a waste incinerator [00:09:00] because they really need it and revenues and jobs, all the surrounding communities. Speaker 2:And all these environmental groups were really telling them that, please don't do this. Please don't do that. You know, they turned it down as a community. But what I saw was when all these groups left, nobody was helping that community. So they said no, but they didn't say, here's what you can, here's what you can do. Here's what we help. And that's where Grand Canyon trustee really a, that's where they, they brought me in and said, why did you help this community? We don't know what to do. [00:09:30] We developed a community base, economic development plan for the Paiutes and create alternatives and, and what kinds of things? It was like creating an orchard, um, improving like their herds. Um, they wanted to do a small casino, you know, things like that. I'm a small convenience store. There was no convenience store out there. The hard part is that we're communal in our culture. Speaker 2:Communal means that it's really hard for our individual tribal members to say, I want to be this big entrepreneur [00:10:00] and become a multimillionaire. And so there's been very little work on actually structuring companies where it's communal versus individualistic. Yeah. So we, we have to figure out a way we're a grammar can get into a business and, but that grandma's also the, the vessel of traditional knowledge. We have to allow her to still work on her sheep, still work on her teaching her kids. We can't just make it word. It's all about just a business venture. So that's where the light bulb went off about trying to find a better way. [00:10:30] Luckily the Navajo nation gave me that space after Grad school and said, you know, restructure our government. We give the power to the communities. Speaker 1:If you're just tuning in, you're listening to method to the madness. Public Affairs show on k a l s Berkeley celebrating innovators today. I'm speaking with Tony Skrelunas, former head of commerce for the Navajo Nation and native American program director for the Grand Canyon Trust. You worked with local communities using culturally [00:11:00] and environmentally respectful strategies that preserves and supports the culture, the language and the environment. So you had to actually change law. Speaker 2:Yeah. And they people, nobody's ever said no. It, everybody's always like, yeah, you know, we're very happy here thinking deep on this stuff. Do it then, you know, organize 'em, bring in the elders, bring the communities together, create policy. Or one of the things you did was you have created a limited profit [00:11:30] company company. Yeah. This is a recent space about three years ago, um, we started working with the chapters to communities. We, we sat down with our six communities. They were all complaining that there's small chapters, federal government, the state government, the Navajo nation government doesn't listen to them because they're all small. They take them for granted and they want it to come get an organize, an entity to really pursue grants. This is, we're too small individual, we can't even get grants but we don't have [00:12:00] the proper organizations to even apply for grants and we don't have the people, we don't have the wherewithal, we just are, are, are really in a dire situation here. Speaker 2:A couple of us that came together, a guy named Edward d, myself, Walter Phelps, uh, a few others in d, these are tribal leaders, you know, and we said, look, we will, we need to create some kind of social entrepreneurship venture. We wanted to innovate. We wanted to create not another non profit, uh, not a for profit. And we knew that there was a space in [00:12:30] between somewhere. We brought our community leaders together. Some of these leaders are elders, some of them are traditional singers in our way. We have these ancient ceremonies, you know, that that it's about getting in harmony and who does this all mean means is is you are living in harmony with the, with all the elements around you. We said let's create something that is in that arena that it's about saving who we are. That's about saving our culture. But building economy, innovating, using some of the best tools out there. Speaker 2:We were very lucky [00:13:00] to engage, uh, Arizona State University, so we've got a lot of help in planning this from them. The law school. In that research we found out that there was a thing called limited profit companies and that fit what we were wanting to do the best because again, it's not just about profit, it's a lot of it is about helping the community, helping save the culture, helping protect the land. We found that only a few states have that California has one. Yeah. Limited profit [00:13:30] law. Arizona didn't have one. So we said, and then the federal government has given the authority to our Navajo nation to, to incorporate, to have 'em so we could do like subchapter s for profit. S Corp's a LLCs, a nonprofits, but we didn't have a space for a limited profit. So we created that. We got our Navajo legislature to, to, to set up that structure and then we crafted our first one, which has done the hugill LTC your latest project. Speaker 2:Yeah. Tell me what you're doing [00:14:00] in that. There's a lot of pressures from in our nation to not only a culture rate, but to create large skill, westernized development. There was a major proposal to build all outside investors. I'm tearing apart our Navajo nation turned apart. I'm really disregarding our cultural ways. There's a tramway proposal into the sacred Grand Canyon had one of the most sacred areas where the little Colorado and the Colorado River meets. So our work has become very paramount that doe [00:14:30] that we come up with a different way, you know, because they want to build a, a thing where 10,000 visitors a day can go down into the grand cashier. Altern alternatives is let's go crazy on community base. There's all kinds of potential. We can have a plan for building USA certified processing center around um, our sheep and our lambs. That sureau is a 500 year old. Speaker 2:It's in the one of the best tasting lamb in the world, but it's also hardy. [00:15:00] It doesn't like destroy our, our range land. It only needs to be watered every three days. It's very hardy in terms of survival. Uh, but the taste is magnificent. The wool is magnificent. You know, we're, we're the rug weavers too or Navajo peoples, but we've never had a USDA certified operating center because it was all westernized return on investment and maximizing return on investment market rates, financing that won't work with something like that because we have [00:15:30] to keep it small. We know we have all these herders, we can't force them to have thousand sheep that won't work. It has to be small land stewardship. It has to be a high quality breeding, you know, and, and organic. And so that, that's a massive niche market. But, but not only are we doing the harvest facility, we're designing the harvest facilities called Little Colorado River valley meet cooperative. Speaker 2:And this is ongoing. We're setting this up. USAA has given us a startup grant. We're going to set up a communal herd. We want [00:16:00] to allow individual Navajos and non Navajos to actually be able to own sheep units in a communal herd with an offer as, and Andres grazing permits teach our ancient ways, teach our ancient traditions, cities a new crop of herders. Cause we're losing these, this knowledge, you know, but we want to make it exciting. We want to do cultural camps. And I finding that younger people, yeah, they're embracing. Yeah. There they are. There's a lot of excitement in this kind of model. [00:16:30] Another example is to, um, to create an investment vehicle. We want anybody in the world to be able to co own a Hogan bed and breakfast. Somebody to be able to own a, a venture that's reservation base, a food business, a, um, a tour company. Speaker 2:We don't have things like venture cap finance. We don't have any investors native, non-native or not can go on and say I wanna yes, Yup. [00:17:00] And we'll help them. We'll help the business set, set up their business plan, we'll help them, um, structure your company if needed. And then really develop the prospectus, develop the pitch to the investor. If they're comfortable, the we'll will, will, can serve as an intermediary. We can, but we'll manage that relationship for them. A lot of times they'll want our management team to, to sit on their, their management team to ensure that, you know, for level of three years, five years, seven years, but the space that we're going to operate that and [00:17:30] is an agriculture and tourism because it's really, really, uh, an innovation, great idea that other tribes, other nations, to duplicate something like this. And this is a brick through, I live in that world of economic development to find innovation. Speaker 2:We're going to be the first to market with, with this type of, um, our setup. We want to build on that. There's a lot of work because this is, this is really heavy duty [00:18:00] stuff we're working on, but once we set up the processes, we want to share that that's us as a limited profit company. We want to share that with other tribes. And there's lots of innovation. I mean, we're right now already doing all kinds of community planning. We're working on like teaching our communities how to have leadership on utility scale, renewable energy. Uh, we're working on a small skill of renewable energy, just as an example. This isn't, so, yeah. Yeah. Moving beyond, not just extractive industries [00:18:30] that aren't your own casinos. Yeah. One of the things that we're working on that, and we're hoping this comes through, is that the Navajo nation does like how we're innovating. Speaker 2:It's really communal. We're having a breakthrough and communal own and they want us to work on a, a communal own hotel. There's some times I have really become wealthy through casinos and, and other mechanisms. A lot of them have pooled their resources and they want to actually invest in a set [00:19:00] of communal owned hotels on Navajo. Yeah. It's ever been done. That platform that you're creating is gonna create the capital. Yeah. The capital, uh, the, the, the world was all the vehicles do to allow access to, to outside capital and then access to the, to the reservation business too. So this will be a massive innovation. But we see it having all kinds of application even on like traditional farming, you know, cause we have, um, farmers that know how to read all everything. Like the weather patterns, [00:19:30] seasons, they have heirloom seeds that they pass from generation to generation. Speaker 2:They knew how to read the the types of different types of washes and some of the tribes that we work with are like Hopi where their desert, they farm in the, in the sand and, and their carnitas thrives, you know, but they, they really know that knowledge. We have one lady that that's a farmer out in a curly valley in Tuba city. That's one of our larger Navajo communities. She only waters once a year and she has an incredible crop lands [00:20:00] at that. Our farmer markets, she's amazing. Her family's a main attraction. So why did they do that? They have an aquifer. No, no they did. And they use only organic traditional methods to keep up pests. They have their own traditional seed banks. They know which corn kernels to to plant and they know that it'll thrive in that desert environment in that area. Speaker 2:They know how to lay out the fields. Just perfect query that, you know, they'll build booms on the site. They know like when it does rain that they'll capture [00:20:30] that rain. But then when they do water once a year, if you do it just right, she believes if you do it, if you followed the traditional teachings just right, you shouldn't feel, our communities are adapting to climate change too because we have all tool wounds, winds. We have a lot of temperature volatility [inaudible] more to come. The scientists before we're saying that climate change is going to heavily impact our area and we're considered like a hot spot. We don't want to wait. It's our traditional way. It's our responsibility to, to, to [00:21:00] figure out strategies for the longterm. We're not shortsighted with this. A good way to put it is that our people lived for 30,000 years and they live sustainably. Speaker 2:They really had happiness. Our tribal peoples in this northern South America creed at 73% of the world's food, over 200 a key medicines. We were once over 100 million, one third of the world's population. A lot of that, that was decimated by disease and and, but we know how to live sustainably. [00:21:30] If I was an investor, I would invest in something that ensures survival for another 30,000 years. And that's something that hasn't been been thought through. We all have to invest in that and that's why we really put a lot of effort into preserve our knowledge systems and our ways. We also have to have a job. Our kids have to go to college. Um, our kids want to go to college, they want to have a house, they want to have running water, they want to have cell phones, you know, they want to travel the world. Speaker 2:So, so we were trying to build that system [00:22:00] where it accommodates both. Any of our listeners want to know more about this or get involved, what should they do? Thank you for asking that question. We know that this is something that's applicable to the world, that tribal peoples in Asia, even in Europe and in South America, Australia, Canada, there's a real desire to do things in a way that's culturally compatible. I'm a lot of our peoples who resist westernized development, [00:22:30] people like Walmart, large scale development have always wanted to bill on our lands. But a lot of our community people say, no, we just had a community turn down a massive solar plant because it was very westernized. What we're doing is really important to, to the future of these tribes that are struggling with this. We have a website right now called [inaudible], l three c can you tell d I n e h o z, h o [inaudible] and then ltc.com we're adding [00:23:00] all kinds of video. Speaker 2:We have a team that's very fluent in our traditional way, but we're also very business knowledgeable. You know, we're, a lot of us are MBAs and Harvard. We don't have a Berkeley Grad on our team yet, hopefully soon. But we have a Stanford Grad, we have ASU grads, we have a guidance getting his phd and sustainable economics, you know, and we have traditional community leaders that are medicine men that sing in our way. So, so we have a great team. We're building this website where we [00:23:30] can teach our methodologies and our research. You know, the, the work I've done on community governance, we're going to have a whole education area where we were going to all papers and research and even videos and how you do certain things. You know, we'll have bases around traditional economic development approaches where it's compatible with culture. A, we'll have ventures, you know, how, what we've done to create ventures, the philosophies, the tools that we use to create these companies. Um, we'll feature a lot [00:24:00] of the work that we're doing in the communities. Again, we have a great team. We have a good web team that's building this, so, but you can already see what we're doing on, on that website, but it's going to be expanded in a major way. Speaker 2:If a company like let's say m Elon Musk, Tesla comes to you and says, I want to follow your traditional ways, but I would love to build a battery plant. Would you work with somebody like this? We would home. I have a, a little brother, his name is Brett eyes. He's [00:24:30] a engineer and he's, um, started a company from scratch. Um, I work in the, as an advisor, uh, to his company, but it's a solar company for a long time. You know, our Navajo nation, we'll write a grant. Somebody wins that grant, but the, the systems they would sell our people. And again, after the United States, the now hold people is the one that's, we're really spread out the size of West Virginia. Uh, we still have 18,000 families that don't have electricity. And so this is really important to, to [00:25:00] our nation. A lot of times these companies would come in and sell an inferior product that's way over price with no local maintenance knowledge, you know, no local capacity. Speaker 2:We changed that. We create our own company, we build our own battery boxes. We, we architectured and design engineer our own rack systems. Um, we found very good wholesalers that the system that Brett is building is incredible. A whole community systems, small individual systems at all different cost levels. Um, we use a lot [00:25:30] of social entrepreneurship approaches. So we use volunteers to build a lot of them and that people's homes, we figured out real different ways to find out some. So it's very innovative. We are starting to work with solar mosaic who's in the bay. We're gonna make a breakthrough what utilities skill and we're gonna actually put some of the revenues towards a stream towards funding a bunch of, um, smaller skill systems on our Navajo land. We were working with another group here called cutting edge capital to set up this platform. So to allow people from [00:26:00] all over the country to actually invest in these local companies that that's where we're headed with this in Grad school. Speaker 2:I research community base development as one of the best paths for our nation, our tribal peoples, to build an economy while preserving who we are. Well, preserving our land. When I try to implement that with our Navajo nation very young, I was very in, you know, early twenties, um, I found a lot of [00:26:30] obstacles, communities that were not allowed to plan if they did, only the central government took over the plan. Implementation communities had one pace structure, very low, like $18,000 for what's called a chapter. Communities. We're not allowed to have their own legal council. They couldn't have their own accounting systems. They couldn't create revenue. There is no local, nothing like a sales tax. There's no sales tax that existed, but communities couldn't tax. They couldn't pass any laws, they couldn't zone. And a lot of people, [00:27:00] they believe in what I was trying to do. Speaker 2:I was hired as a young man to lead our nation to, to change our, our governance structure to a system that allows for all those things. Um, we flexibility because all the communities are different in simple terms. It's like a, how you incorporate a community in a state that they, you want to be town. You know, you're speaking of, you put in your policies and procedures, your accounting systems, your finance systems, your, you know, your plan of how you can manage the land you take over responsibility. That took [00:27:30] about 40 years of my life, my career. I worked with elders and traditional leaders and community leaders, um, had massive, massive public policy process. It's something that has been the changer for Navajo nation. I studied traditional systems of government and I was very lucky to be surrounded by people that were really knowledgeable in tribal history, our history of our nation and how things were a long time ago. Speaker 2:So we, we incorporated a lot of those ways into our alternative systems that government, [00:28:00] which is systems of government space in all the way. Um, so a community that gets local government certified can adop, uh, like requests while a council and not, ah, which is a long time ago, like I was saying, you didn't know we didn't have elections. We didn't say I'm better than So-and-so. We couldn't say that. That wasn't our way. Now community can adopt that and have precincts and have the elders come together and select and then nominate and pick somebody to represent them and be accountable to them. It's a real [00:28:30] innovation. It's real, a breakthrough. And I'm really proud to be the one that created that. It's easy to look at tribal peoples and say, oh, they're, they're not wealthy. They're, um, they only do in casinos. They're living in a third world conditions, you know. Speaker 2:But what our people tell us is that wealth is not just big house. It's not just big cars and fancy words. It's really our clan ships and our family units and our traditional knowledge systems and having the knowledge to to [00:29:00] build on your own home and farm, but using 30,000 year old knowledge, knowing the songs and the teachings and the stories, raising a family that's strong and leaving a legacy as your life. You know, a lot of us, we resist completely westernizing ourselves. We want something better and I think only now through education, through being raised in our tribal way still, but being matching that with with the best tools that we are finding [00:29:30] the pathway to to achieve a [inaudible], a balance, a harmonious way. And I think, yeah, most people, they want to be like America. They want a three branch government and commerce free market economy, but we have to be careful how we think that through. When we create governments, we have to really think about the old knowledge systems, the old ways because right now our world's in trouble. Even our, our commerce systems and our economies are really built [00:30:00] to, to benefit the wealthy. There are a lot of people in the world that are moving to that way of thinking. Non-Native people who also agree that there's no other way to do it. We can feel it though the greater university. Speaker 1:Hello step. This is the right week. Terry. Thank you very much, Graham. Thank you for your time and yeah, good luck. Good luck. Berkeley, you've been listening to method to the madness public affairs show on k a l ex Berkeley [00:30:30] celebrating innovators. You can find all of our podcasts on iTunes university. Until next time. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week’s show features recordings from the Ute Mountain Ute Native American protest against the White Mesa Uranium Mill on their land. Interviews with White Mesa Community Leaders Priscellna Rabbit and Ephraim Dutchie, an attorney Marie Ann Tapp and Dinah women Leona Morgan.  Rad show co-producer K-A met them in April this year while participating in the protest walk from the White Mesa Community to the White Mesa Uranium Mill only 3 miles down the road.  Priscellna Rabbit, from the White Mesa nation, speaks to the officer at the gates of the Uranium Mill about contamination.  Euphraim Dutchie spoke to me after the protest about his concerns and the struggles of his people to have authentic participation in decisions about their land.  Anne Mariah Tapp is an Attorney for the Grand Canyon Trust and provides law and policy advice. She provides an incredible overview to the situation on White Mesa land and the people's struggle.  In the final part of the show, an amazing activist Leona Morgan, a Dine women, from Dine No Nukes, talks about her organisation and the extraordinary work they are carrying out on the dangers of uranium mining and the impacts that uranium mining has had on the Dine lands.  From the Southwest region of the US she has worked as a community organizer and educator on uranium issues since 2007. She has worked primarily to help prevent water contamination from a proposed ISL facility. In 2014, Morgan co-founded Diné No Nukes (DNN). DNN is an initiative focused on education about the entire Nuclear Fuel Chain with a special interest in the lands with the Diné Four Sacred Mountains. 

Shannon Baker is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Western Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, and Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, and was the winner of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ Writer of the Year for 2014 and 2017. Shannon is the author of the Nora Abbott mystery series from Midnight Ink. A fast-paced mix of Hopi Indian mysticism, environmental issues, and murder. The first in the series, Tainted Mountain, is set in Flagstaff, AZ, where she lived for several years and worked for The Grand Canyon Trust, a hotbed of environmentalists who, usually, don’t resort to murder. It is a 2013 finalist in the New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards. Her Kate Fox Mystery Series debut novel, Stripped Bare, was a modern western described as Longmire meets The Good Wife. Baker spent 20 years in the Nebraska Sandhills, where cattle outnumber people by more than 50:1. The second novel in the series, Dark Signal, will be released on October 17, continues the story and adventure living in the American west. Join Shannon Baker and me on Tuesday, October 10, 10-11 A.M. CT US. Our conversation will be about her life’s journey as a mystery writer and the beauty of the American West.

Out of the dark of the Moon Dark of the Year Cauldron of despair, Coyote ladles out Bears Ears Triumphant, (still needing us all to protect what is sacred and precious). Sane Reverent Indigenuity Spiraling into the Memosphere. Hosting Bill Hedden and Terry Tempest Williams. Bill Hedden is Executive Director of the Grand Canyon Trust, under his leadership the organization has led in developing ecologically sensible forest restoration programs and is partnering with Colorado Plateau tribes to win designation of the first-ever Native American national monument at the Bears Ears in southeast Utah. The wild lands of our collective soul in Utah have assumed human form to come tell us its story. “Today, the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Uintah and Ouray Ute, and Ute Mountain Ute tribes have formally united to secure a presidential proclamation establishing a 1.9 million-acre Bears Ears National Monument… The five tribes of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition have developed a visionary and workable plan for America's first national monument that will be collaboratively managed by the tribes and the federal government. Their proposal envisions a world-class center for the integration of Native American traditional knowledge and western science at Bears Ears. The Coalition's proposal has been favorably received by the White House and appointees in the Obama Administration at the departments of Interior and Agriculture.”  (From August 11, 2016 Interview) And now – Victory! Obama has designated Bears Ears as a national monument (Article from The Guardian). We will be interweaving with Terry Tempest Williams – author, activist, naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, she has consistently shown us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. “So here is my question,” she asks, “what might a different kind of power look like, feel like, and can power be redistributed equitably even beyond our own species?” In 2006, Williams received the Robert Marshall Award from The Wilderness Society, their highest honor given to an American citizen. She also received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western American Literature Association and the Wallace Stegner Award given by The Center for the American West. She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in creative nonfiction. In 2009, Terry Tempest Williams was featured in Ken Burns' PBS series on the national parks. She is also the recipient of the 2010 David R. Brower Conservation Award for activism. The Community of Christ International Peace Award was presented in 2011 to Terry Tempest Williams in recognition of significant peacemaking vision, advocacy and action. In 2014, on the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act, Ms. Williams received the Sierra Club's John Muir Award honoring a distinguished record of leadership in American conservation. · Bill Hedden www.GrandCanyonTrust.com · Terry Tempest Williams www.CoyoteClan.com   The post The Visionary Activist Show – Bears Ears Victory appeared first on KPFA.

Caroline hosts Bill Hedden, Executive Director of the Grand Canyon Trust. (The wild lands of our collective soul in Utah have assumed human form to come tell us its story.) “Today, the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Uintah and Ouray Ute, and Ute Mountain Ute tribes have formally united to secure a presidential proclamation establishing a 1.9 million-acre Bears Ears National Monument… The five tribes of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition have developed a visionary and workable plan for America's first national monument that will be collaboratively managed by the tribes and the federal government. Their proposal envisions a world-class center for the integration of Native American traditional knowledge and western science at Bears Ears. The Coalition's proposal has been favorably received by the White House and appointees in the Obama Administration at the departments of Interior and Agriculture. www.grandcanyontrust.org   Bill Hedden is the Executive Director of the Grand Canyon Trust. Under his leadership, the Trust has helped clean up emissions from the region's coal fired power plants and remove radioactive wastes from the bank of the Colorado River. Hedden developed a leading program for reducing grazing damage on public lands, including purchasing two ranches covering 850,000 acres on the Grand Canyon's North Rim. The organization has led in developing ecologically sensible forest restoration programs and is partnering with Colorado Plateau tribes to win designation of the first-ever Native American national monument at the Bears Ears in southeast Utah. Hedden has a B.A. and Ph.D. in biology from Harvard University. The post The Visionary Activist Show – Caroline Hosts Bill Hedden appeared first on KPFA.

Shannon Baker is the author of the Nora Abbott mystery series from Midnight Ink. A fast-paced mix of Hopi Indian mysticism, environmental issues, and murder. The first in the series, Tainted Mountain, is set in Flagstaff, AZ, where she lived for several years and worked for The Grand Canyon Trust, a hotbed of environmentalists who, usually, don’t resort to murder. It is a 2013 finalist in the New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards. Her latest novel, Stripped Bare, a Kate Fox Novel, is a modern western described as Longmire meets The Good Wife. Baker spent 20 years in the Nebraska Sandhills, where cattle outnumber people by more than 50:1. Shannon is proud to have been chosen Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ 2014 Writer of the Year. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Western Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, and Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. Join Shannon Baker and me on Tuesday, August 9, 10-11 A.M. CT US. We will be having a candid conversation about her life’s journey as a writer, traveller, and the beauty of the American West.

INTERVIEWS: Alicyn Gitlin, who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion  for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter.  She is joined by: Sandy Bahr, who is Chapter Director for the Grand Canyon chapter of the Sierra Club. Anne Mariah Tapp, Energy Program Director of the Grand Canyon Trust. NUMNUTZ OF...

INTERVIEWS: Rebuttal to Federal Court go-ahead for uranium mining in the Grand Canyon: Alicyn Gitlin, who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter; Sandy Bahr, Chapter Director for the Grand Canyon chapter of the Sierra Club; and Anne Mariah Tapp, Energy Program Director of the Grand Canyon Trust. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: More Food News from Fukushima! (a new feature?) - this time... gold metal tap water from Fukushima?!? PLUS: Derelict boat from Fukushima found off Oregan coast... but it's not the first; US NRC okays High Burn-Up Fuel for Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Ohio. SEE: Donna Gilmore's assessment of HBF's dangers at: www.SanOnofreSafety.org to learn what's wrong with THAT picture; Last week's Numnutz gets even numnutzier as Milan Expo 2015 subject to corruption, scandal, police investigation, arrests and jailings; TEPCO robot in Fukushima Unit 1 burns out after moving only 10 meters - no word on what data, if any, it was able to collect; and education has just become more dangerous as Japan opens new high school in evacuation zone.

INTERVIEWS: Rebuttal to Federal Court go-ahead for uranium mining in the Grand Canyon: Alicyn Gitlin, who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter; Sandy Bahr, Chapter Director for the Grand Canyon chapter of the Sierra Club; and Anne Mariah Tapp, Energy Program Director of the Grand Canyon Trust. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: More Food News from Fukushima! (a new feature?) - this time... gold metal tap water from Fukushima?!? PLUS: Derelict boat from Fukushima found off Oregan coast... but it's not the first; US NRC okays High Burn-Up Fuel for Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Ohio. SEE: Donna Gilmore's assessment of HBF's dangers at: www.SanOnofreSafety.org to learn what's wrong with THAT picture; Last week's Numnutz gets even numnutzier as Milan Expo 2015 subject to corruption, scandal, police investigation, arrests and jailings; TEPCO robot in Fukushima Unit 1 burns out after moving only 10 meters - no word on what data, if any, it was able to collect; and education has just become more dangerous as Japan opens new high school in evacuation zone.

When Kevin Fedarko stepped through the door of the O.A.R.S. boathouse in Flagstaff, AZ, he didn't realize he had crossed a figurative threshold as well as a literal one. Kevin had planned on rafting the Grand Canyon for a wilderness medicine course. Then, he planned to go back to his life as a successful freelance writer. But what he saw in that first week on the Colorado River left him desperate to find a way to keep coming back. Kevin spent the next smelly, humiliating, beautiful and life-altering decade of his life developing a relationship with the Grand Canyon, writing about the Grand Canyon, and, ultimately, figting to protect it.  To learn more about the current threats to the Grand Canyon and how you can help, visit Save the Confluence and Grand Canyon Trust. You can purchase Kevin's book, The Emerald Mile, here. Brendan Leonard wrote and narrated this episode. You can find more of his work at Semi-Rad.com.

The forests program director from the Grand Canyon Trust in Utah talks about her work with beavers and their valuable role for streams and forests!

The forests program director from the Grand Canyon Trust in Utah talks about her work with beavers and their valuable role for streams and forests!