Author Archives: Snowchange

Al-Jazeera features Snowchange on the Stream show. Indigenous communities have for centuries drawn on native scientific knowledge to help them understand the world around them. Known popularly as Traditional Knowledge, this observational evidence is verified by elders and passed on to successive … Continue reading →

A historical solar energy summit to support nomadic Indigenous communities of Sakha-Yakutia, Siberia is under way in the city of Yakutsk. Building on a decade of cooperation between the Barefoot College and Snowchange Co-op the summit will enable discussions of … Continue reading →

Lippo 2018 – Festival of Northern Fishing Traditions  is organized by Snowchange Cooperative. We are co-organising this Festival with the EU – funded Interreg Kesäsiika (Summer Whitefish) project as well as major supporters the Northern Forum, NEFCO, Gaia Foundation and … Continue reading →

Summer 2018 saw the highest ever recorded temperatures in the Sámi home area in the Finnish Arctic. With temperatures well beyond 30 C degrees for weeks both the natural ecosystems and the Indigenous and local communities sweltered under the heat … Continue reading →

Snowchange and Sámi knowledge holders release today a new paper in Indigenous Evaluation. The special issue is co-edited by Maori world leader on IE – Indigenous Evaluation, Fiona Cram. Indigenous evaluation as a process, method, and paradigm has developed over … Continue reading →

Ipolitics, a Canadian news agency, has published a large piece on Indigenous peoples and climate change consultation. The article reflects on innovative actions by the Deh Cho, Haida and other First Nations. Additionally the Berger inquiry and Trans-Mountain pipeline are … Continue reading →

A new scientific article has been released friday from the Jukajoki restoration work. In this article the observation and spread of brook lamprey (Lampetra planeri) will be discussed as a bio-indicator and a ‘subtle sign’ in the boreal. Brook lamprey is a … Continue reading →

Mongabay News Service hosts a large media and a podcast from New York City on a range of Snowchange programmes and initiatives: On today’s episode, we discuss traditional indigenous knowledge and climate change with Snowchange Cooperative director Tero Mustonen. Through … Continue reading →

Released today, “Biodiversity and ecosystem services in Nordic coastal ecosystems” Report has been in the making for several years. It implements the Intergovermental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – IPBES approach for the Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Finnish, Greenlandic, Sámi … Continue reading →

Floods in Continental Europe and record-dry May in boreal Finland are some of the on-going examples of climate change events under way. Despite progress made with the Paris Agreement and other instruments, more is needed to combat climate change impacts.  … Continue reading →