At a Crossroads: Towards Justice, or Down the Insidious Path of False Solutions?

After decades of climate inaction, the United States has reached a turning point with the passage of multiple federal laws that provide funding for clean energy. However, environmental and climate justice activists are wary, warning that these laws may further subsidize false solutions to addressing the climate crisis. Legislation like the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act is riddled with technological and market-based approaches that further exacerbate existing vulnerabilities in environmental justice communities

The Three Sisters Sovereignty Project [Part 2]

In terms of infrastructure, the Project will have a traditional Haudenosaunee longhouse, which is the sisters’ first goal. Traditionally, longhouses are infrastructures in which usually more than one family, if not a whole clan would live in. Usually, longhouses are built “with pole frames and elm bark covering” but for this project, the three sisters are planning to build it with hempcrete, thanks to a collaboration with Escher Design, Inc. an architectural firm based in Dorset, Vermont. According to Alex Escher, Director of Hemp Development at Escher Design, hempcrete has several benefits which will make the 3SSP Longhouse an example of more sustainable housing. “Hemp has the fastest CO2 to biomass conversion ratio found in nature, even more than agroforestry, as well as hempcrete, which also sequesters more CO2 than is emitted during its production.

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The Three Sisters Sovereign Project

On November 23rd 2019, not too far from New York City, The Three Sisters Sovereignty Project was launched by three resilient Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) women: Katsitsienhawi Iakoskarewake (Tiffany Cook), Teiohontáthe Iakoskarewake (Fallan Jacobs), and Kawenniiosta Iakohthahiónni (Kawenniiosta Jock) from the Mohawk Nation of Ahkwesasne (or Akwesasne) which straddles the borders of Ontario, Quebec and northern New York

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