Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Aandaxjoon Allen
“Tlingit political identity is tied to sovereign tribal authority and the ability to determine citizenship, which by definition excludes non-Indigenous residents. Tribal citizenship is important within issues like environmental justice because it provides specific political authority, including to negotiate with the US federal government.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Temporality of Haa Shuká A Scalar Perspective on Climate Change Lingít Knowledge & Alaskan Identity ·
Aandaxjoon Allen
“I drew largely from what is called the Raven Cycle. And if you're not familiar, the Raven Cycle tells of the trickster Raven and kind of his early life.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Temporality of Haa Shuká A Scalar Perspective on Climate Change Lingít Knowledge & Alaskan Identity ·
Aandaxjoon Allen
“I'm really interested in the way that indigeneity was coming into these conversations. Especially into anti-tourism conversations from non-Indigenous people who were evoking this Indigenous identity in the arguments that they were making.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Temporality of Haa Shuká A Scalar Perspective on Climate Change Lingít Knowledge & Alaskan Identity ·
Aandaxjoon Allen
“one scenario actually proposed a future wherein there would be no pligation. People in the region by the end date of the scenarios, which was 2050. And this was very quickly deemed not plausible and was not included in the final scenarios. And this was partially because of the long-term Tlingit presence in the region.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Temporality of Haa Shuká A Scalar Perspective on Climate Change Lingít Knowledge & Alaskan Identity ·
Aandaxjoon Allen
“because of money, because they have so much power, that industry has really been able to come in and divide communities. And pit us against each other in a lot of cases. And so, you know, there is this kind of unequal distribution where there's no real like bargaining power from the communities.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Temporality of Haa Shuká A Scalar Perspective on Climate Change Lingít Knowledge & Alaskan Identity ·
Aandaxjoon Allen
“this process was a collective effort to generate this document, which is called Possible Futures for Southeast Alaska. And it is 4 fictional scenarios that were created that are meant to be plausible and challenging and really push people to think outside of the box.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Temporality of Haa Shuká A Scalar Perspective on Climate Change Lingít Knowledge & Alaskan Identity ·
Aandaxjoon Allen
“A lot of Indigenous knowledge is very place-based and rooted in specific context. And so my work pushes back against this planetary scale when it comes to discussions of climate change”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Temporality of Haa Shuká A Scalar Perspective on Climate Change Lingít Knowledge & Alaskan Identity ·
Aandaxjoon Allen
“it is called the Communication and Reciprocal Exchange, or CARE, Initiative. And this initiative includes trainings for scientists on how to better interact with Indigenous communities. So people who are coming in from outside of the region, from other universities, and may not know cultural protocols or how to kind of best present themselves in these situations.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Temporality of Haa Shuká A Scalar Perspective on Climate Change Lingít Knowledge & Alaskan Identity ·
Aandaxjoon Allen
“I ultimately argue that the deep relationships with place and with our ancestors and descendants precedes and will outlast to the forms of futurity of the settler colonial state and of oil and corporate futurity.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Temporality of Haa Shuká A Scalar Perspective on Climate Change Lingít Knowledge & Alaskan Identity ·
Aandaxjoon Allen
“these are cruise ship tourism, Western scientific research in Southeast Alaska focused on the environment, and then climate futurity. So first we're going to talk about cruise ship tourism.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Temporality of Haa Shuká A Scalar Perspective on Climate Change Lingít Knowledge & Alaskan Identity ·
Aandaxjoon Allen
“approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation should be regionally and locally focused, and specifically with an attention to clicket knowledge”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Temporality of Haa Shuká A Scalar Perspective on Climate Change Lingít Knowledge & Alaskan Identity ·
Aandaxjoon Allen
“we're going to pivot back to the possible futures for Southeast Alaska scenario planning process and think about how Cliket futures did not necessarily fit within these scenarios. So throughout this process, I was asking myself, whose future are we imagining?”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Temporality of Haa Shuká A Scalar Perspective on Climate Change Lingít Knowledge & Alaskan Identity ·
Aandaxjoon Allen
“one really great example of this is the Southeast Alaska Tribal Ocean Research Lab at Sikkok Tribe of Alaska, and specifically the work that they do for shellfish testing to make sure that that is safe to eat.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Temporality of Haa Shuká A Scalar Perspective on Climate Change Lingít Knowledge & Alaskan Identity ·
REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Peter Asmus
“this book is essentially a lot of oral histories because a lot of the folks profiled are now retiring, moving on. Well, Chris, you're now in Portugal, obviously, but— and Clay Copeland just, you know, moved on from his job in Córdoba. So I think the other value of this book is sort of capturing this time when the innovation was starting, and a lot of it is sort of decentralized innovation.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Chris Rose
“unless there's some major gas discovery that none of us know about, can get online fast enough, I unfortunately don't think that we're going to see that kind of replacement.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Chris Rose
“the rail belt right now is still about 80% reliant on natural gas for making electricity, almost 100% for heat. And that's really a problem now that natural gas is in short supply. It's getting a lot more expensive. There's a world market for it.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Chris Rose
“one of the issues that the rail belt really faces is that it is not operating as an integrated grid.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Peter Asmus
“the community, only 70 people, a utility that serves only 70 people, everybody does basically everything, but they use their indigenous wisdom because that river is the salmon”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Peter Asmus
“we mentioned Kodiak Island. That's 99% renewable, and the reason they can get there, as Darren Scott describes, they have 3 layers of storage. First of all, they use hydro. A traditional hydro dam, then they have lithium-ion batteries, and then they have a flywheel”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Peter Asmus
“one person I was getting to is Diane Carpenter, who I believe, passed away, and so that's one person in the book where she was a last-minute addition. I think Gwen suggested it”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Chris Rose
“The problem we've had historically in the rail belt is we've had many utilities and many visions that don't always align.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Peter Asmus
“we discovered— and there are some definitional issues— that Alaska had more microgrids than any other state. In fact, basically everybody in Alaska gets their power from a microgrid.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Chris Rose
“We've got a Regulatory Commission of Alaska that also does not have a vision to execute. So we've got pieces, but they're kind of at misalignment.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Chris Rose
“we don't have a Department of Energy. We call ourselves an energy state, but Alaska doesn't have an energy division. We've got an Alaska Energy Authority that doesn't really have a lot of policymaking horsepower.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Donovan Russoniello
“really encourage folks to go and grab a copy of that book, whether physical or digital. It's, it's an amazing resource and there's a lot of really inspiring stories in there.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Peter Asmus
“it's University of Alaska Press, which is actually University of Colorado Press. I guess it's a subset. So if you Google Alaska Microgrid Innovators, University of Alaska Press, that will also bring you up”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Peter Asmus
“I got a chance to go down and visit her in Alamos, spent a bunch of time with her and being able to hear directly from her some of those stories. And so that was pretty special to me”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Peter Asmus
“Well, you can go to Amazon, but it just officially came out last Thursday, actually. There's also an online version which actually has color photographs.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Peter Asmus
“this opportunity came up and actually it started— I met Gwen at a conference of some sort. And at the time, I was an analyst, had a global database on microgrids, and I think Gwen said something to the effect like, "You don't have enough Alaska microgrids in your data,"”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Chris Rose
“I think it's very unlikely that the utilities that have relied on natural gas in the Southern Rail Belt are going to have any other opportunity to replace that natural gas but for importing it.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Chris Rose
“A lot of these smaller utilities that were administered by people like Brad Reeve up at Kotzebue or Darren Scott at Kodiak Electric had boards of directors that shared a vision of where they wanted to take that utility”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·