by Protect Thacker Pass | Feb 6, 2021 | Reflection
By Alex Eisenberg, February 6, 2021 During my last quarter of college I learned about the concept of The Personal Responsibility Vortex. This concept (along with the critical thinking and systems thinking skills I honed at Evergreen) revolutionized how I thought about...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Feb 6, 2021 | Press
Since mid-January, two American activists have been camping on a windy plateau in Nevada, at Thacker Pass, to obstruct a lithium mine project. This metal plays an essential role in the ” green ” economy , but its extraction would doom an entire ecosystem....
by Protect Thacker Pass | Feb 6, 2021 | Art
An homage to Picasso’s anti-war painting, Guernica, Travis London’s Guernica Pass is also an anti-war painting. The war depicted in Guernica Pass is industrial civilization’s war against the natural world, a war industrial civilization is currently...
by Rebecca Wildbear | Feb 5, 2021 | Reflection
Flowering sage covers the desert. Layers of rolling hills and a few rocky cliffs shape the horizon. I wander up a dry creek bed lined with trees on Thacker Pass in Humboldt County, Nevada. The dry air is thick with the fragrance of sage, mixed with juniper and pinion....
by Protect Thacker Pass | Feb 5, 2021 | Art
Artist Jean Arnold has kindly given us permission to share art works from her collection, Extraction, with you. These paintings depict the strange new landscapes created by vast mining operations around the world. These are paintings of landscapes destroyed by...
by Max Wilbert | Feb 4, 2021 | Reflection
Standing on the broad northern saddle of Thacker Pass, I look across the land. The sagebrush ocean rolls away to the east, a gentle expanse of shrub steppe leading towards the snowcapped Santa Rosa-Paradise Peak wilderness, rising to 9700 feet in the distance. My eyes...
by Max Wilbert | Feb 3, 2021 | Interview
In this interview Max Wilbert talks about the Protect Thacker Pass Campaign with Sandy Schoelles on her Environmental Coffeehouse...
by Will Falk | Feb 3, 2021 | Reflection
The Montana mountains standing above Thacker Pass in the north taught me that faith does not move mountains, but gravity, volcanoes, erosion, and moving tectonic plates do. A few days ago, while I was struggling with a lack of faith, two ravens circled above by head...
by Max Wilbert | Feb 3, 2021 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
“Some people think that to stop global warming, to save the planet, we need to blow this place up. I think that’s wrong. I think that’s completely wrong.” Transcript Hello everyone. For those who don’t yet know what’s happening out...
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