Banner is Excerpts from "Kayapo v. Norte Energia," 4' x 7' PAINTING and COLLAGE on CANVAS and "Activated Amygdala," 12" x 15" acrylic and pencil on canvas 
Humanity is moving toward recognizing nature as a legal entity... clean air is no longer considered res nullius.  It is becoming res omnium.
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Sandra Steingraber

"Confronting the DEC in New York"
​12 x 12 Acrylic paint and collage on wood.
​ Sandra Steingraber 
confronts a NY Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner at an environmental hearing, February 4, 2013, about the potential impact of nearby fracking on New York City. 

Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. is an ecologist, author, internationally recognized authority on the environment links to cancer and human health, and co-founder of New Yorkers Against Fracking. 
She is the author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment  and Raising Elijah: Protecting Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis.​
Collaged into the background is what Sandra said here to the NY DEC Commissioner:
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"All of us in the public health community of New York should have a voice in this. We can't protect public health in secret…no…no…we haven't had a voice, we haven't had a voice… We are here to…no, I'm not leaving. ..and I'm insisting to you that the people of New York are not going to let their health be held hostage by a review. All of us in the public health community ... yah, all of us in the public health community…No, I'm not waiting any more! All of us in the public health community are demanding that we stop this process now until and unless we have a comprehensive impact health assessmentwith full participation...  -I have written you so many letters that you have never responded to.  (In a loud voice) The people of New York insist on a comprehensive  health impact assessment. We will not settle for anything less. We are going to open this process up because secrecy can not protect public health. I have tried to have a conversation with you but you don't answer any letters so I'm using my voice in front of the people of New York to say we are not going to stand for …we are not standing for a secret health study….it is my right as a New Yorker to be here. …Peace means no fracking."
​-Sandra Steingraber
Sandra Steingraber and allies were SUCCESSFUL! 

"NY State Officially bans fracking," syracuse.com, June 29, 2015
"It all mattered. Every phone call. Every media story. Every press conference. Every petition signature. Every chant. Every sign and banner.
Every birddogging mission. And every alarm clock that rang at 3:30 a.m. to take every person to every bus to Albany every time we came here for the
past five years. It all mattered. It all prevailed. Because that’s what truth does. And it is so sweet now to come together in one room to tell the story
of our victory over the shale gas army to each other. That’s why we are here today."  -Sandra Steingraber, January 23, 2015

"Unfractured"
"My name is Sandra Steingraber and I am unfractured.
"...The antidote to despair and cynicism is to fight with your whole heart." 

​“My children need a world with pollinators and plankton stocks and a stable climate.
They need lake shores that do not have explosive hydrocarbon gases buried underneath.
The fossil fuel party must come to an end. I am shouting at an iron door.
Can you hear me now?”
-Sandra Steingraber, Letter #2 from the Chemung County Jail, April 19, 2013