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10 Inspiring Canadian Women Who Are Saving The Environment
“Giving and taking, honour and respect. You don’t take more than you need. Renewables are a rejuvenative energy; they’re about respect and love for the land and ensuring that it’s passed on to future generations.”
- Chatelaine, April 29, 2019
1st Indigenous Research Fellow at David Suzuki Foundation
"I feel like we need to start implementing solutions into our communities by bringing back our traditional and Indigenous knowledge which made our communities — before colonization — very healthy communities."
- CBC, July 15, 2017
12 Female Activists You Didn’t Know Are Changing the World
“Melina [has] been advocating for indigenous rights for more than a decade… today, she fights against the depletion of the environment and works toward the cultural revitalization of indigenous people.”
- Global Citizen, July 13, 2016
Fighting Climate Change with Jane Fonda
“A member of the Lubicon Cree First Nation in northern Alberta, [Laboucan-Massimo] remembers clearly when a pipeline rupture sent more than three million litres of oil gushing through the ground about 10 kilometres from her family home in the village of Little Buffalo in 2011. It was the biggest oil spill in Alberta since the mid-1970s.”
- Toronto Star, July 4, 2015