Sacred Earth Solar

Sacred Earth Solar is an Indigenous-led organization that works in solidarity with impacted Indigenous communities who are protecting their homelands by bringing solar power directly to the frontlines. Providing renewable energy allows front line land defenders to protect themselves when asserting jurisdiction of their territories while directly opposing fossil fuel projects. Energy sovereignty allows for place-based renewable solutions that align with the laws and jurisdiction of each distinct Indigenous Nation. Sacred Earth Solar also provides assistance to Indigenous land defenders in the form of healing justice support. Fundraising, skills-sharing and implementing these projects with frontline land defenders enables communities to focus on the constant pressure from corporations, police and colonial governments encroaching on Indigenous land.

Sacred Earth Solar is led by Indigenous women.

Melina Laboucan-Massimo, the founder of Sacred Earth Solar, is a Lubicon Cree woman from the heart of the Alberta Tar Sands. She has been actively involved in climate justice, just transition, healing justice, Indigenous sovereignty and movement building work for over 20 years. Her home community of Little Buffalo is directly impacted by immense fossil fuel extraction & logging, and has been impacted since she was a child. 

Since 2015, Sacred Earth Solar has worked on Indigenous-led climate & energy literacy in communities as well as climate policy regionally, nationally and internationally. We are also working hard to decolonize the climate movement and organizing to prevent and stop destructive fossil fuel projects.

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