Twenty-three Native communities in the Great Plains have an estimated 350-gigawatts of wind energy power. The electrical generation capacity for the entire United States is 600-gigawatts of power.

Honor the Earth's Renewable Energy Initiative is about recovering local power production in Native American communities as a method of recovering economies and self determination, while working to protect the Earth from global climate changes due to non-renewable energy pollution. Our work involves on the ground technical and financial assistance to front-line Native grassroots environmental justice groups, advocacy, and work with consumers and utilities. At a national level, we are working on media and advocacy to move a public policy agenda toward alternative energy. We link to larger environmental justice and safe energy movements through seeking to develop commercial tribal wind generating capacity to fit into the international grid, and we link just power production from Native America to consumers through alliances with progressive initiatives ranging from the ecumenical community to the labor community. We will link public demand and financial support for renewable energy with tribal energy production and associated green energy programs.

The Problem

We are interested both in addressing the economic issues posed by energy development choices in Native America, and in challenging tribal governments to move towards a renewable energy agenda. We are also interested in democratizing power production. Our reasons are many.

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