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Ranae Lenor Hanson is an author, activist, and educator. In 2021, she wrote Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress, in part to honor her students’ requests that she share their climate-refugee stories with audiences she could reach more quickly than they could. She wove those stories together with a song of love for the watersheds of Minnesota, indigenous earth-based ethics, and explorations of the way diabetes (like her own type 1) parallels climate change both in its challenges and in its possible solutions. Ranae holds a PhD in Comparative Education and taught at Minneapolis College for 31 years where she learned with and from diverse native-born and immigrant students.
Ranae spoke with PPC Project Coordinator Amelia Hanson, her daughter, about how their family has maintained a plastic-free and zero-waste set of holiday traditions despite yearly increases in plastic production and a massive amount of plastic involved in the average American holiday celebration.
Order Watershed here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/watershed
Find this title and more in our 2022 Plastic-Free Holiday Gift Guide! The Guide also features a wide range of eco-friendly products from Business Members committed to stopping plastic pollution. Enjoy discount codes up to 30% and support plastic-free giving. connect.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/2022ppcgiftguide
Ranae Hanson's website: ranaehanson.com
#plasticfree #holidayseason
Ranae Lenor Hanson is an author, activist, and educator. In 2021, she wrote Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress, in part to honor her students’ requests that she share their climate-refugee stories with audiences she could reach more quickly than they could. She wove those stories together with a song of love for the watersheds of Minnesota, indigenous earth-based ethics, and explorations of the way diabetes (like her own type 1) parallels climate change both in its challenges and in its possible solutions. Ranae holds a PhD in Comparative Education and taught at Minneapolis College for 31 years where she learned with and from diverse native-born and immigrant students.
Ranae spoke with PPC Project Coordinator Amelia Hanson, her daughter, about how their family has maintained a plastic-free and zero-waste set of holiday traditions despite yearly increases in plastic production and a massive amount of plastic involved in the average American holiday celebration.
Order Watershed here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/watershed
Find this title and more in our 2022 Plastic-Free Holiday Gift Guide! The Guide also features a wide range of eco-friendly products from Business Members committed to stopping plastic pollution. Enjoy discount codes up to 30% and support plastic-free giving. connect.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/2022ppcgiftguide
Ranae Hanson's website: ranaehanson.com
#plasticfree #holidayseason
