Module 4

For my final module, I am looking at incorporating Indigenous awareness and the environment.  I think it is so important for people in the trades to learn about how construction can be used in a better way to help the environment, but also how to see construction and the environment from an Indigenous perspective.

Unfortunately, what I am seeing is a disconnect between the trades and the environment and an Indigenous perspective.  I can find trades and the environment, or the environment and Indigenous information, but no information on the three themes together.  So, this might prove to be a little cumbersome or messy when it comes to writing information about this.

However, for now, in this blog I will put try to add as much information as I can with regards to these three themes.

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This is a great resource regarding indigenous knowledge and climate change.  It gives a lot of information about the impact of colonialism on climate change and how “self-determination is the key” to combat climate change.

Climate Atlas

It also has a great short video on how the world is out of balance.

 

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Indigenous Clean Energy

This website showcases how indigenous led programs are supporting the cause in climate change.  They “promote Indigenous leadership and inclusion in Canada’s energy futures”

Indigenous Clean Energy

They also support an initiative which is entitled “Power to the People”.  This aligns well with the information we have been learning in class and that of self-representation and self-determination.  Power to the People is an indigenous led “television documentary series that explores the renewable energy revolution empowering Indigenous communities across Canada”.  It is run by Indigenous groups and really focuses on how they see the world and their perspective on the environment and ultimately, how they think we help the environment.

Power to the People

 

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Bow Lake Earth Project is interesting because it has successfully worked with Indigenous peoples to create a wind farm which is the largest in North America.  It is a great collaboration between a corporate/trades developer and a large Indigenous group.

 

 

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This article surprised me a bit as it talks about how Indigenous led clean energy could lead to reconciliation.  In my mind I had never thought of reconciliation and climate change in the same breath.  The website discusses how reconciliation is about shared knowledge and how this can lead to healing and reconciliation.

It made me think about how can we all heal while also allowing the earth to heal.

A Shared Future

 

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This last post I would like to share some videos about Indigenous world view and climate change.  I saw this and it gave me some insights as to how i wanted to create similar videos an this subject.

 

This next video gave me time to pause.  It talks about giving rights to bodies of water. it is decolonizing our thought processes and yet at the same time, having to work within the Eurocentric world.  In this case it means giving a voice to what we would generally think as inanimate but what Indigenous people consider as an entity.