TOOLKIT
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Regenerative Economies: A Guide To A Thriving Alaska
The concepts presented here have existed since time immemorial. Because of organizers, community members, and leaders past and present, we continue to learn and shape our vision around the intersectional nature of regenerative economies and Just Transition.
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Just Transition Policy Scorecard
Questions to ask when deciding whether specific policies support a just transition.
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Alaska's Time to THRIVE Zine
The THRIVE Agenda has taken many forms, but at heart it is a vision of a just future put to paper. With THRIVE principles in place, we hope to see massive changes in funding and investments, as well as climate adaptation and support to vulnerable communities.
This zine was formed by the Green New Deal Network, in community with hundreds of frontline grassroots organizations, including the Just Transition Collective. -
The Kohtr’elneyh Workbook: A Visioning Guide for Families
This downloadable and printable workbook produced by Native Movement has been structured around the principles necessary for a Just Transition, as adapted from Movement Generation and Indigenous Environmental Network, and features coloring pages by artists Siqiniq Maupin, Apay’uq Moore, Jessica Thornton, Nabi Qureshi and Naaweiyaa Tagaban. Their artwork is then followed by descriptions and prompts designed to spark your own imagination!
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Kohtr’elneyh, Remembering Forward ZINE
This zine was Alaskanized from the orginal publication from Movement Generation. You can download this 40-page zine in two versions, one for viewing online, and one for printing into a folded booklet of your own!
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Regenerative Economy Generation: An Activist Youth Publication
Issue #1: Returning To Balance
REgeneration is a youth-led narrative publication that highlights the Just Transition Framework through art. Our goal is to build community, amplify youth narratives, and illustrate how art creates thriving regenerative economies in Alaska.
TERMS, VALUES, & RESOURCES
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Healing
Advocacy work can be draining, and movement building requires finding time to heal. The Irresistible Podcast explores that idea and how to approach it.
Racial Justice
Racial Justice Essential To Just Transition to a Low-Carbon Future
The Climate Equity Network prepared a roadmap to an equitable low-carbon future.
NAACP’s Environmental & Climate Justice Kit
NAACP’s guide to understanding the intersections of climate and racial justice.
Art
Coffee & Quaq Podcast
Alice Qanniq Glenn’s podcast explores Alaska Native art and culture.
Jenny Irene Miller’s Continuous Portrait Series
Jenny Irene Miller is a Inupiaq artist who has done a portrait series, ‘Continuous’ which highlights contemporary Indigenous people.
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Indigenous Knowledge
This website has greetings and short phrases in all of the 20 official Alaska Native languages, as well as a resources page about organizations and projects working on language revitalization in Alaska.
Chugachmiut Heritage Preservation
Chugachmiut’s vision is to revitalize the traditional Chugach Native culture and language. The goal is to make Sugpiaq and Eyak history and heritage a part of the regular school curriculum with support and direction from our Elders’ traditional ecological knowledge.
Alaska Native Knowledge Network
The Alaska Native Knowledge Network was created to provide a clearinghouse of Alaska Native resources for both cultural and linguistic knowledge.
Black Mesa Water Coalition
Black Mesa Water Coalition is an inter-tribal, inter-ethnic voice leading conversations around energy justice issues, restorative economies, and climate justice advocacy, in the Southwest and around the US.
Indigenous Environmental Network
IEN’s activities include building the capacity of Indigenous communities and tribal governments to develop mechanisms to protect our sacred sites, land, water, air, natural resources, health of both our people and all living things, and to build economically sustainable communities.
Decolonization
Find out whose land you’re on: this Canadian map of North America shows areas of different Indigenous lands, the tribes and tribal contact information for each of these areas, and a contact number to fix any parts that aren’t quite right yet.
This guide to land acknowledgment has multiple forms of media to understand the importance of land acknowledgement, as well as various strategies for individuals as well as organizations to acknowledge the land we are on.
This episode of Coffee & Quaq talks about decolonization and all it entails.
Intersectionality
Just Transition is Climate Justice is Racial Justice is Gender Justice
This interview is between Bill McKibbin, a leader in the environmentalist climate movement, and Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program.
Violence On The Land, Violence On Our Bodies
This toolkit was developed by Native Youth Sexual Health Network and Women’s Earth Alliance and includes workshop activities, resources on how to care for our bodies while doing frontline land defense work, strategies for addressing rape culture and land trauma, and a tool to document environmental violence.
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Economic
Mountain Association has created visual models of how an economy undergoes a just transition.
Workers
Holding Coal Plant and Mine Owners Accountable to Workers and Communities
As workers transition from coal mining to regenerative jobs, this model provides a blueprint for how one community has done it, making sure that the coal plant and mine owners are participating and accountable in this transition.
Climate Change and the Clean Economy
This fast fact sheet provides a helpful guide into facts about what a clean economy looks like, including some fast facts about our economic present and future.
The Just Transition Alliance was founded in 1997 as a coalition of environmental justice organizations and labor unions. Together with frontline workers and community members who live along the fence-line of polluting industries, we create healthy workplaces and communities.
Investors
How can investors lead us through a just transition? This toolkit provides examples, guidance, and a helpful roadmap for investors in creating a regenerative economy.
EDGE Funders is a group of philanthropic organizations dedicated to building a different way of investing funding.
The Chorus Foundation is an example of a funding organization focused on funding a Just Transition.
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Legislation
This sample legislation in New Mexico focuses on energy and labor goals meant to reflect a tangible just transition.
Locally-Controlled, Renewable Energy Championed as Key to Climate Justice
This 2014 article discusses why clean energy in communities is so important.
Energy Democracy NY is a coalition that concentrates on community controlled clean energy in New York, providing resources for everyone to understand how to do this in their communities as well.
Alaska’s Small Villages Turn Toward Renewables—And Don’t Look Back
Read about Buckland’s transition to renewable energy.
Example Resolutions/Bills
AFN youth-led resolution to declare climate change as a state of emergency in Alaska
Students/Schools/Universities
10,000 Steps to Environmental and Climate Justice Project Toolkit
This toolkit is for youth and college-aged organizers who are advocating for environmental and climate justice.
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Energy Justice
NAACP Just Energy Policies and Practices Action Toolkit
The Just Energy Policies and Practices Action Toolkit is 8 modules of practical, user-friendly guidance on how you can phase out toxic energy like coal, nuclear, and oil facilities and bring in clean energy like wind and solar. Designed to be downloaded as an entire toolkit or as individual modules, you can start planning energy justice plans to best fit the needs in your community.Alaska-Specific Resources
Beyond Fossil Fuels: Planning a Just Transition for Alaska’s Economy
This 2017 report by the Center for Sustainable Economy in collaboration with the Northern Alaska Environmental Center describes key features of Alaska’s economic landscape and highlights existing community projects and ideas that are signposts on the road to a sustainable economy.
Survival Denied: Stories from Alaska Native families Living in a Broken System
By the Council for Athabascan Governments, stories are shared that illustrate the impact current management practices and regulations have on the lives of Alaska Natives. Their first-hand testimonials reveal a complicated system that denies Alaska Natives their rights to traditional foods and ways of life; illustrating the need for a revised system that provides them a greater influence in land management, hunting, and fishing; a system that ensures their religions, physical and cultural survival.