Featured Action Organizations

• Indigenous Environmental Network: This network of grassroots indigenous peoples seeks to protect the sacredness of Mother Earth from contamination and exploitation by strengthening, maintaining and respecting traditional teachings and natural laws. They address environmental and economic justice through education and political activism.
• Honor the Earth: Established in 1993 by Winona LaDuke and Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, Honor The Earth creates awareness, supports Native environmental issues, and develops needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities. Honor the Earth develops these resources by using music, the arts, the media, and Indigenous wisdom to ask people to recognize our joint dependency on the Earth and be a voice for those not heard. They provide both financial support and organizing support to Native environmental initiatives.
• Indigenous Re-Generation: An Indigenous-led nonprofit that works to assist Native Communities in re-indigenization and Tribal sovereignty through a re-generative approach to food cultivation, medicinal farming, lifestyle and culture, and eco-village education programs.

Featured Calls to Action

Upcoming

U.S.: 

• Ask your representatives to support the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act.
• Sign the petition to tell President Biden and EPA Administrator Regan to act now on pollution rules.
• Urge your senator to cosponsor and pass the Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act to invest in the work Tribal nations are doing to reconnect and restore the habitats wildlife rely on for their survival.
• Tell Congress to support inclusion of Scope 3 to ensure that the SEC upholds its mandate to protect workers from Wall Street’s climate-related financial risks.

Global:

• Find out who represented you at COP27 and follow-up with them, urging them to advocate for further policies that address the environmental crisis. Broad-based government intervention is an essential tool in limiting warming, as findings in this report from WRI demonstrate.
• Visit WRI’s COP27 Resource Hub to find articles and research that clarify what’s at stake and identify critical areas for progress on climate action.

Ongoing Opportunities

• The David Suzuki Foundation offers comprehensive resources for engagement at the local government level. View guides on assessing your local government’s climate plan and working with local leaders on climate action. You can also check out their Act Locally page.
• Take a step from Don’t Look Up’s resource page. Click on a step and scroll down to see some helpful tips for each one.
• Take one of the many steps listed on Stop the Money Pipeline’s current calls to action. Some of these are ongoing and some are time-sensitive; check back regularly for updates or join their newsletter (linked at the bottom of the page) to stay current.
• U.S.-based Interfaith Power and Light shares upcoming actions on their Public Policy Page.
• Stop the Money Pipeline:
  • Move your money and divest from fossil fuels
  • If you are a college student, learn about and launch a reinvestment campaign
  • Tell your government representatives and local financial institutions to put people and planet before polluters.