We and our hosts Helen and Art Tanderup and family, and the Ponca Nation, are honored to invite all of our friends to join us this year on Saturday, April 29th for the Tenth Annual Planting of Sacred Ponca Corn, on Ponca Nation land situated with the Tanderup farm near Neligh, Nebraska — that crosses […]

View photos of the 2022 Ponca Corn Planting on Facebook.  We are excited to invite all of our friends to join us again this year on Sunday, October 16th for the Ninth Annual Ponca Sacred Corn Harvest. The annual gathering happens on Ponca Nation land and the Tanderup farm near Neligh, Nebraska — we are […]

Our panel discussion includes Dan Zegart — the journalist who covered the shocking details of the Satartia pipeline rupture that sent dozes to the hospital, and months later continued to cause health issues for the victims, in his story “The Gassing of Satartia.” The panel also features several first responders who were present on the […]

We can stop the pipeline by electing one more member to the Nebraska Public Service Commission (PSC) who is against the Keystone XL pipeline. Bold Nebraska is helping organize phone banks (and door-to-door canvassing: sign-up here) to make calls to voters in the crucial Public Service Commission District 1 race, to let Nebraskans know how […]

ACTION: Host your own #NoKXL LTE House Party! Sign up on the form below.  Writing a letter to the editor (LTE) of your local newspaper or news website is a critical action you can take right now to help stop the pipeline. They are very powerful tools to get your voice heard not only by […]

Energy Barn Update:  Monthly:  July 2014 was the best month for energy production at Energy Barn to date!  In July the barn produced 329 kWh of energy, which has the carbon offset equivalent of planting 6 trees. As of August 1st, the Energy Barn in York County had produced 2.88 megawatt-hours of electricity for Nebraska’s […]

Almost a year after announcing it would conduct research studying the effects of climate change on Nebraska agriculture, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR) will release the first of its kind report on climate change on September 25th, 2014. The UNL study findings will be presented as a Heuermann Lecture: […]

Artist John Quigley has partnered with the Cowboy and Indian Alliance to create the world’s largest crop art installation, on land in Neligh, Nebraska on the Ponca Trail of Tears that would be traversed by the Keystone XL pipeline. The crop art installation will send President Obama a direct #NoKXL message from the Cowboy and Indian […]

On April 22nd, a group of ranchers, farmers and tribal communities from along the Keystone XL tarsands pipeline route, called the Cowboy and Indian Alliance, will ride into Washington DC and set up camp near the White House to tell President Obama to reject the pipeline. On April 26th, thousands of people will join them […]

You are cordially invited to a tour of six solar installation sites in Omaha on Saturday, October 26, 2013.   WHAT: Solar Tour of Omaha WHEN: Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013, 9:00 a.m. — 3:00 p.m. WHERE: Tour begins at Creighton University’s Cuming Street Parking Lot Solar Array (on Cuming between N 25th Ave & 27th […]