Over the past 17 years the Brower Youth Awards, given out Earth Island Institute’s New Leaders Initiative, have become the top prize for young environmental leaders in North America. The awards, which honor six youth every year, have recognized some 104 young activists for their leadership and creative efforts in tackling our many pressing environmental problems — everything from fighting extractive industries, pushing for action on climate change, wildlife and lands conservation, and exploring new pathways in green technology. Show host and Earth Island Journal editor, Maureen Nandini Mitra, talks two of this year’s winners, Erica Davis from Knoxville, Tennessee and Karina Gonzales from Flagstaff, Arizona, about the lessons all environmentalists can learn from these young folks on how to build power, and strategy, and ultimately a better living world.

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Since late August, Indigenous people and their allies descended on camps along Cannonball River at the northern boundary of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota, to decry the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. The pipeline, if built, would stretch one thousand one hundred and seventy-two miles (1,172) miles and carry half a million barrels of crude oil per day from the Bakken oilfields —  right through lands held sacred by Native groups.

While the movement at Standing Rock has reinvigorated the larger climate change movement, it’s also indicative of a emerging Indigenous movement of resistance and restoration of their lands, waters and other natural resources that’s sweeping across North America. Show host and Earth Island Journal editor, Maureen Nandini Mitra, talks about what this growing movement means with award-winning filmmaker, journalist and photographer, Christopher (Toby) McLeod, director of Sacred Land Film Project, who has been working with Indigenous communities for more than 35 years.

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