A quick climate change video essay that looks at why oil and gas pipelines like the Keystone XL expansion and the Dakota Access Pipeline are so contentious. I specifically look at how building new pipelines will just lock us into a system reliant on fossil fuels for decades to come.

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Resources:
1. How Safe Are Pipelines? 
2. Keystone XL timeline.
3. An Analysis of the 100% renewable goal.
4. Keystone XL explained.
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2017 Brower Youth Awards Speech by Charlie Jiang talks about "doing good for the world," the world beyond his bubble, beyond his hometown, Chicago. 

2017 Brower Youth Awards Speech by Dineen O'Rourke on her work in her community around community gardening and the importance of education. 

Tipi Tales are adventures in story and song. Elizabeth, Junior, Russell and Sam play, laugh and grow together in the forest surrounding the home of their great-grandparents. Each story centers around the daily challenges faced by the cousins as they seek to understand each other and the world around them.

The children learn the tools of life from enchanting forest animals who embody the seven ancient aboriginal laws.

Chase Iron Eyes is an American Indian activist and attorney of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. He has been instrumental in raising awareness of the #NoDAPL movement opposing new oil pipelines. This talk focuses upon those ongoing efforts, recent revelations of corporate infiltration, and attempts to keep arrested water protectors free from prison.

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Operation Crossroads – Bikini Atoll where we dropped atom bombs on coral reefs. Electric violinist Razz travels to Bikini to bring some music to the radioactive landscape.

In prophecy, the Knowledge Keepers of the First Peoples of Turtle Island foretold of a time when people from the four directions of the world would come together. This is the prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor. The Eagle represents the people of the northern hemisphere, and the Condor the people of the southern hemisphere. In June this prophecy will be fulfilled at the Onjisay Aki International Climate Summit, as Indigenous peoples unite the human family at the center of the continent of Turtle Island.

Co-founder of Idle No More SF Bay, Pennie Opal Plant, talks about individual’s responsibilities in ensuring the future is safe for all living things.

Indigenous California artist & activist, L. Frank Manriquez went to Standing Rock three times to protect the land surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline. She talks about the health issues many are suffering due to the tactics of the “DAPL Army.”

L. Frank (born 1952) is the nom d'arte of L. Frank Manriquez, a Tongva-Acjachemen artist, writer, tribal scholar, cartoonist, and indigenous language activist.^[2][3] She lives and works in Santa Rosa, California.

Lynn Doan of Bloomberg news talks about objectivity in covering stories like Standing Rock.