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Migizi Will Fly–A Grandmother’s Journey to Stop Line Three

Migizi Will Fly

A Grandmother’s Journey to Stop Line Three

  By Barbara Rhine

It was my first flight out into the wider world since Covid geared up, so I was a hot mess on May 22, 2021, when I began a five-day trip to Minnesota with an uphill task: Stop “Line Three”—the pipeline Enbridge Inc. has planned to transport Canadian tar sands, the dirtiest of oils, to Lake Superior for

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I got a little lost in the tech world at various times, and for me it took a bit too long to resolve, but I did enjoy reading this book. A lot. Written by an African American man in the voice of an African American woman, from a largely Afro-centric ...more
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Three stars at the most, and the longer I think about it, the less I like this book. Here is some praise, though: the story explores the sacred nature of trees in a touching fashion; and there is a chilling and skillful account of what it's like to f ...more
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Simply put, this new slight easy-to-read book by Climate Expert and Activist Bill McKibben, may be the most single important book out there right now! Bill has worked on climate issues for over 40 years, and for the first time he characterizes himsel ...more
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