Grantee tags environment

Sacrifice Zones
Media Project
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
Sacrifice Zones, a one-hour radio documentary, investigates the push to turn the Pacific Northwest into a fossil fuel export hub and tracks opposition to these proposals from broad segments of the community. Read More
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- Website: mediaprojectonline.org

Nowhere to Run: Climate Refugees
Heath, Jennifer
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
Scholarly art book/cataogue and traveling visual art exhibition about displacement of communities and individuals due to climate change, environmental degradation and ecological abuses. Read More
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- Website: http://waterwatereverywhere-artshow.com/

EcoReport
WFHB Community Radio
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
Independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues. One story focused on the life-cycle of bees, role of the Queen, honey production, and colony collapse disorder, etc. Read More
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- Website: http://www.wfhb.org

Grassroots Battle by the Gichigami (2014)
Boswell, Tom
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Wetlands and Chippewa culture are threatened by plans for an open-pit mine in Wisconsin. This documentary project by journalist Tom Boswell, to include a photo exhibit and news articles,is designed to inform the public about risks posed by the mine. Read More
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- Website: Grant awarded in 2014.

Portraits of the Ecological Self
Callas, Kimberly
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Is there an ecological self? Is there a place within us that remembers we are nature? Can this ‘self’ hold the answers about how to live sustainably within the cycles and limits of our home planet? I explore these questions through this art project. Read More
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- Website: http://www.kimberlycallas.com

Trust
Spotted Horse Studios
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
On the shores of Lake Superior a coalition of Native and non-native activists are working across state boundaries to protect their treaty rights and the Great Lakes from an expanding hard-rock mining industry. Trust, a documentary film follows them. Read More
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- Website: http://trustthedocumentary.com/

Legacy of the Land Through Art
Legacy Land Conservancy
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
The Legacy of the Land Through Art project chose artists to create works about the lands preserved through the Conservancy. Both private and public lands gave the artist an opportunity to connect with the natural spaces through three seasons. Read More
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- Website: http://www.legacylandconservancy.org

The Good Earth Project (2014)
Kerpel, Jon
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
This project is dedicated to all the life-giving organisms that support our planet & are indispensable to our survival. With my art form I hope to raise awareness of environmental challenges & engage people in a dialogue that encourages stewardship. Read More
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- Website: http://www.jonkerpel.com

Coal Cocked
Bernofsky, Gene
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Coal Cocked is an advocacy film meant to help stop Arch Coal from strip mining 1.3 billion tons of coal in the Tongue River and Powder River Basins of Montana. Read More
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- Website: http://www.worldwidefilmexpedition.org

Undue Influence: the power of Police and Prison Guards’ Unions
Making Contact/ National Radio Project
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Puffin Foundation supported the production and distribution of an edition of Making Contact investigating the undue influence of police and prison guards’ unions. MC’s radio documentary series can be heard on 141 stations and at www.radioproject.org Read More