Jule Avian Wren

@coyotetrail.bsky.social

Writer and teacher (MFA/PhD) “Alaska” Is Not a Blank Space: Unsettling Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey (Cambridge, 2025) I’m out running at 4:30 am, regardless Website: https://juliannewarren-avian.studio/ 📍Fairbanks

Hard conversations are also grounding conversations that help you find words, name emotions, and prepare for action. Like the conversation with Omar El Akkad, this interview with Claudia Rankine took my breath away. Asked me questions that I've been thinking about, but in a more alive way.

David Naimon@davidnaimon.bsky.social · 3d ago

Don't miss Claudia Rankine's return to Between the Covers to discuss her powerful new book TRIAGE Audio⚡: milkweed.org/between-the-... @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Outside oilgarchs want Alaskans to think we need them, but it's not true. Renewables are cheaper + faster to build, while fossil fuel execs are left asking for subsidies in order to stay competitive. It's time to invest in real energy solutions, not pipe dreams. www.newsminer.com/news/local_n...

Fairbanks organizations protest Alaska LNG project as developers eye third special session

As the Golden Days street festival drew near its end Saturday, some Fairbanks organizations floated their opposition to the proposed Alaska LNG project — literally.

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“There is no sustainable agriculture without bees….” Standing among the hives on the damaged rooftop, al-Dabba says the bees remind him of the people of Gaza. “The bees are like the people here,” he says. “They continue working despite the hardship. They always find their way back to the hive.”

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · last wk.

Ibrahim al-Dabba continues to care for his colonies despite losing his home and most of his hives and equipment

A thing you have always known can all of the sudden jolt you into a particular clarity: How ludicrous is my inherited story that the creator of all creation is any one gender. And. How incommensurable must be the worlds of children taught the one true god is their gender versus not.

NEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.

The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas | Center for Climate Integrity

How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution

climateintegrity.org

“Modelled on The Fourth World: An Indian Reality, the 1974 classic by George Manuel & Michael Posluns, I Will Live for Both of Us [by Joan (Paningaya’naaq) Scottie, Inuk activist, w/2 coauthors] brings to life resource governance on Inuit lands in a way that no detached academic account ever could.”

NiCHE Canada@nichecanada.bsky.social · 4w ago

"I Will Live for Both of Us is a well-written and engaging examination of Indigenous struggles to protect culture and land within and against a colonial and land claims framework." - Andrew Procter niche-canada.org/2023/07/21/r... #envhist #cdnhist #indigenous #indigenoushistory

“Female orcas teach hunting techniques and pass on cultural traditions, but I think that maybe, they might just also simply enjoy being alive without there being a need for ensuring the reproductive or cultural survival of their species.”

NiCHE Canada@nichecanada.bsky.social · 4w ago

“'In tandem' with growing orca captivity rates in the 1960s and 1970s 'heteronormative and patriarchal cultural norms began to be transposed onto these marine mammals.'" - Teja Sosteric niche-canada.org/2024/07/08/a... #envhist #histsi #animalstudies #orcas #queerecology

Yes. This. Is. Resonating. Teaching and writing in conservation back then, I got some flack for criticizing “footprints” for what sound like same plus an array of reasons within a “sustainability” framework, which I also critiqued….(Who or what is being sustained, by whom….? And round we go….)

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · last mo.

From a piece I built out of a Bluesky thread for The Chronicle of Higher Education: www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...

Next week: a virtual training with @prisonculture.bsky.social! Come identify your most sustainable & effective role in social change—not based on what feels most urgent or visible, but on what fits your skills, capacities, relationships, & lived realities. 🗓️ July 8 🕰️ 7pm ET/4pm PT ✍️ Register:

Find Your Role in the Work With Mariame Kaba (Learn To Do #1) · EducateUS

This session with visionary, legendary organizer and activist Mariame Kaba, author of We Do This ‘Till We Free Us and other books, helps participants identify their most sustainable and effective role...

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