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Who We Are
Mission
Our Team
Our Collaborators
FAQ
Contact Us
What We Do
Current Projects
Methodologies
Issues We Face
Published Work
News & Updates
Support Us
January 15, 2025
Updates
Lee Beckwith
Lowlander Center Wins 2024 Pitch It! Innovation ...

We are excited to announce that the Lowlander Center placed first in the Greater New Orleans Foundation’s 2024 Pitch It! Innovation Challenge. The $50,000 grant we will receive will support our “Sky Power for the People” project, which brings emergency, portable solar panels to communities in need.

Lowlander Center Wins 2024 Pitch It! Innovation Challenge for Portable Solar Project
August 23, 2024
Updates
Lee Beckwith
Emergency Portable Solar Panel Workshop A ...

For a hot week in August folks gathered in DeRidder, LA to learn and build portable solar units to be used both in blue skies and in disaster situations. Rev. Jerry Egbert and Boksoon Egbert hosted a crew of eager learners from across the coast. At the end of the week, one complete unit was taken away on the back of a pickup truck and delivered to Grand Bayou.

Emergency Portable Solar Panel Workshop A Success
September 23, 2023
Lee Beckwith
Pointe-au-Chien Featured on PBS

Theresa Dardar, Donald Dardar, and Kristina Peterson discuss land loss as the first part of the PBS docuseries “In Their Element: Earth, Air, Fire, Water.” Watch it here!

Pointe-au-Chien Featured on PBS
September 15, 2022
Updates
Mona Porter
Hurricane Ida Pollution Report

A new report by Naomi Yoder and Sheehan Moore analyzes pollution incidents that occurred directly or indirectly due to Hurricane Ida.

Hurricane Ida Pollution Report
August 4, 2022
Updates, Lowlander in the News
Mona Porter
$20 million National Science Foundation ...

Lowlander Center will be a partner in the research hub lead by Haskell Indian Nations University.

$20 million National Science Foundation Research Award will Fund Indigenous Science Hub
Mona Porter
October 19, 2018
Lowlander in the News

Shirley Laska on Delta Dispatches: Resilience in Coastal Communities

Mona Porter
October 19, 2018
Lowlander in the News
Shirley Laska on Delta Dispatches: Resilience in Coastal Communities

Lowlander Center’s Shirley Laska appeared on the Delta Dispatches radio program to speak about Participatory Action Research (PAR), Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), and her forth-coming book.

Source: http://mississippiriverdelta.org/delta-dispatches-resilience-in-coastal-communities/

Mona Porter
October 16, 2018
Updates

Meetings and Community Building in Alaska

Mona Porter
October 16, 2018
Updates
Meetings and Community Building in Alaska

Alaskan meetings, October, 2018.

Mona Porter
October 16, 2018
Updates

Building the Resilience of Small Coastal Businesses

Mona Porter
October 16, 2018
Updates
Building the Resilience of Small Coastal Businesses

This report is about the challenges and recommended protective actions for small businesses along coastal Louisiana from St. Bernard Parish to Delcambre in Iberia/Vermilion Parishes to extreme weather and sea level rise risk.  It was funded by a grant from the Entergy Foundation in 2015.

Mona Porter
October 16, 2018
Updates

San Francisco Climate Action Summit

Mona Porter
October 16, 2018
Updates
San Francisco Climate Action Summit

Vera Petrovic represented the Lowlander Center as a youth delegate at the San Francisco Climate Action Summit.

Mona Porter
September 3, 2018
Updates

Bay Area/Grand Bayou Glass Workshop

Mona Porter
September 3, 2018
Updates
Bay Area/Grand Bayou Glass Workshop

Lowlander members visit the Bay Area for a glass workshop.

Mona Porter
September 3, 2018
Updates

INDR Roundtable in Oaxaca

Mona Porter
September 3, 2018
Updates
INDR Roundtable in Oaxaca

Lowlander members Kristina Peterson and Dick Krajeski took part in a round table to discuss the ethics of displacement.

Mona Porter
June 10, 2018
Lowlander in the News

Faith-Based Activism on Climate Change; Recalling Liberation

Mona Porter
June 10, 2018
Lowlander in the News
Faith-Based Activism on Climate Change; Recalling Liberation

Lowlander founder Kris Peterson appears in this PBS segment:

Source: https://www.pbs.org/video/religion-and-ethics-newsweekly-faith-based-activism-climate-change-recalling-liberation/

Mona Porter
June 10, 2018
Updates

Media Workshop in Hawaii

Mona Porter
June 10, 2018
Updates
Media Workshop in Hawaii

Lowlander Center sent several youth to Hawaii to work with and learn from Kalani Souza of the Olohana Foundation. 

Mona Porter
June 10, 2018
Updates

Iceland Post Trip Report

Mona Porter
June 10, 2018
Updates
Iceland Post Trip Report

Read Tegan Billiot's post trip report from the NAACP Coastal Youth Climate Justice Delegation to Iceland.

Mona Porter
June 3, 2018
Updates

Youth Delegation travels to Iceland for the NAACP's Environmental and Climate Justice Youth Delegation

Mona Porter
June 3, 2018
Updates
Youth Delegation travels to Iceland for the NAACP's Environmental and Climate Justice Youth Delegation

Lowlander Center sponsored Tegan Billiot from Pointe au Chien Tribe and Savannah Lynn Ancar of the Atakapa Ishak-Chawasha Tribe to be part of the NAACP's Environmental and Climate Justice Youth Delegation.

Source: http://www.naacp.org/climate-justice-resources/linkages-across-sea-level-rise-continuum/

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