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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
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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
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
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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
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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

"Coastal harm from invading saltwater 'happening right now'" - Houma Today

"Coastal harm from invading saltwater 'happening right now'" - Houma Today

Coverage in Houma Today of saltwater intrusion on the Louisiana Gulf coast. The article also touches upon a request for UN assistance in addressing the US failure to take action on climate change. The request was issued by the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians of Louisiana, the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe, the Grand Caillou and Dulac Band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha Choctaw Tribe, the Atakapa-Ishak Chawasha Tribe of the Grand Bayou Indian Village, and the Native Village of Kivalina.

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How a coastal Louisiana tribe is using generations of resilience to handle the pandemic

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How a coastal Louisiana tribe is using generations of resilience to handle the pandemic

The Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw have long practiced self-isolation and sustainable food production, which they hope will help keep their number of COVID-19 cases low.