"This pipeline is a black snake that traverses four states and 200 waterways with fracked Bakken oil," said Ruffalo, co-founder of The Solutions Project, a venture that works to transition society to clean and renewable energy.
"We know from experience that pipelines leak, explode, pollute and poison land and water. But it doesn't have to be that way."
The solar trailers will allow for medical tents and numerous other critical facilities to be powered with clean energy, and represent exactly the healthy/abundant future of energy for which the Standing Rock Sioux are currently fighting.
"Water is life," said Johns, a Navajo leader. "By leading a transition to energy that is powered by the sun, the wind and water, we ensure a better future for all of our people and for future generations."
According to a report by EcoWatch:
Johns' company, Native Renewables, promotes low-cost clean energy solutions for Native American families throughout the U.S., with an emphasis on job creation and on benefiting the community as a whole. The trailers were built by members of the Navajo nation and were financed by Empowered by Light and Give Power.The reality of the situation is that the Standing Rock tribe is fighting to protect their source of clean water. The Dakota Access Pipeline puts the tribe's clean water supply, as well as that of millions of others, in danger, as the pipeline is scheduled to go directly under the Missouri River.
Research led by Stanford Prof. Mark Jacobson, another Solutions Project co-founder, shows that it would be technically possible and economically beneficial to transition to 100 percent clean renewable energy in each and every state across the country. In North Dakota, for example, wind and solar energy would be the primary sources of clean power and transitioning to 100 percent renewables would create 30,000 jobs.
The construction of the "black snake" marks the conglomeration of corporate/banking interests being elevated above that of the public interest. Furthermore, the ongoing construction has already desecrated sacred burial sites and cultural artifacts.
"Around the world, more than 80 percent of the forests and lands with protected waterways and rich biodiversity are held by indigenous tribes. This is no coincidence," Ruffalo said. "As so many of us suffer from polluted water, air and land in our rural and urban communities, the water defenders at Standing Rock are showing us another way."
Imagine how you would respond if an oil pipeline was being dug through the cemetery where your grandparents and great grandparents were buried.
Mark Ruffalo taking a stand for the Standing Rock Sioux is a great example for all individuals, celebrity, and non-celebrity alike. Rather than simply donating some money to a cause, he has utilized his celebrity to bring much greater attention to the continued injustices being perpetrated against the Native American community.
It's clear that Ruffalo has taken a page out of Ghandi's book, and is "being the change he wishes to see in the world."
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I guess the environmental destruction of someone else's backyard is a viable solution to the native american protesters who do not want the environmental destruction of their own backyard.
it would be a lot better to not have a tablet and a phone, four flat screen televisions, and never have so many electrical devices that you need wall strips in every room to plug them all in and a trailer full of panels to power them while your "camping"
taking those steps would create a much cleaner, less energy dependent, more respected earth with less "climate change"
people are just too ignorant to figure out you cant have civilization to it's current extent, and a natural world to frolic in. the pooch is already screwed so to speak.