Sierra Native Alliance Project

This project is about building a social alliance network that unites native people, private & public sector utility provideters and community outreach organizations to ensure the survival and restoration of traditional cultural values and property, including Chinook Salmon. The goal is to bring about ecological, economic, social and spiritual vitality to a local community while engaging regional and global communities to collaborate in the process.

Enabling new communication lines to be opened between leaders in these respective communities, the community is moving forward in the following ways:

Calling Back the Salmon

This on-going project is bringing together a community, local and global, to help salmon return to their indigenous watersheds. This eight minute video illustrates the spirit behind this vision and work. For a full screen view of this presentation please click here.

Farmers Direct Food Distribution Project

This project supports a social alliance network to unite local farmers, commercial buyers and a central farmers' market association in distributing and enabling local restaurants, schools, hospitals and others to purchase farm fresh produce direct from local producers. Web-enabled technology plays a major role in building efficiencies into the distribution system. The result of this program enhances the economic vitality of local food producers, local economy and provides healthy farm-fresh produce to local institutions.