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 and/or earth:
“The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“I sat in silent musing—
The soft wind waved my hair;
It told me heaven was glorious
And sleeping earth was fair.”
—Emily Brontë (1818–1848)