Honor The Earth is a non-profit organization founded to raise awareness and financial support for Indigenous environmental justice. The organization was founded by Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers after meeting Winona LaDuke in 1991 in collaboration with Indigenous Environmental Network, Indigenous Women's Network and Seventh Generation Fund.
The campaign priorities of Honor the Earth are:
- energy justice/creating a new energy economy
- sacred site protection
- environmental justice
- promoting leadership amongst Native youth in Native communities
- renewable energy
- buffalo restoration
- nuclear waste policy
- Impacted Nations, a travelling art show of over 50 works from over 40 Indigenous artists
- getting out the Native vote
- encouraging tribal commitment to the Kyoto protocol
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Famous quotes containing the words honor the, honor and/or earth:
“One should still honor the enemy in his friend. Can you go up close to your friend without going over to him?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Days of plenty and years of peace;
March of a strong land’s swift increase;
Equal justice, right and law,
Stately honor and reverend awe;”
—Henry Holcomb Bennett (1863–1924)
“What a grudge I am bearing the earth that has its arms about her,”
—Petrarch (1304–1374)