The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) is a governing body comprised of 4 gubernatorial representatives from the states known as New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and 1 representative from the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). According to the DRBC website, the governing body was created “so the…

A recap from FERC’s final Technical Conference for 2021 — Greenhouse Gas Mitigation On November 19, 2021, Rachel Dawn Davis, Waterspirit’s Public Policy & Justice Organizer, participated on Panel 3 of this technical conference. She shares about her experience below. What is FERC? FERC is the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), a self-described independent agency that purports to regulate “the interstate transmission of…

Democracy, like water, is fluid. Waterspirit’s advocacy work has always been rooted in finding solutions to right the wrongs inflicted upon Mother Earth and all Creation. Ongoing monetary gain for fossil fuel companies poisons the way of life on Earth for all living beings. Fossil fuel industry operations are to…

By: Blair Nelsen, Executive Director, Waterspirit From August 23-September 3 I attended the third post-2020 working group meetings on the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Global Biodiversity Framework. I became connected to these meetings via the Faith and Biodiversity United Nations Coordination Group, a newly-formed coalition of faith groups working on…

By: Blair Nelsen, Executive Director, Waterspirit There are new bullet holes in the American Capitol today. Yesterday, crucifixes and “Jesus Saves” signs peppered the mob landscape outside the building. Jesus would never have supported the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The actions of the insurgents were anti-Christian and antithetical…

August 27, 2020 By: Blair Nelsen Executive Director, Waterspirit UN-NGO Representative for the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace Science alone will not create behavioral change. Lasting change — particularly change that flies in the face of the harmful systems in which we have been raised —…

I know this is an uncertain time, one that triggers the worst in us: fear, scarcity, confusion, grief… Each moment feels like an hour, each day melting into the next. …

by: Blair Nelsen “I am disappointed with the results of #COP25.” — Antonio Guterres The Secretary General’s understated tweet hardly matched the urgency of the situation. …

by: Blair Nelsen, Executive Director, Waterspirit The small, V-shaped room could only fit about a dozen people on small wicker benches. The din of the outer lobby was muffled nearly entirely; this was a space set apart. This was the Meditation Room at the United Nations. A huge iron block…