As UEF/UEN began research on energy and environment, we went to Coal Fired Power Plants, Nuclear Energy Facilities, Hydro-Power Dams, Geo-thermal Fields that produce power for the nation to investigate the issues and realities of power production.

After UEF became aware of the ability to turn from pollution to self-sustaining  U.C. Davis Professor Professor Doctor Harry O. Walker, and his work with Pacific Gas and Electric, gave UEN content and historic data to present the story to the public on the history of energy technologies.

Further- at the suggestion of Navy Admiral Pete Galantin, UEF did create the “Goodwill Abroad through Students” and "Energy Independent America" public awareness campaign. We are updating and preparing to continue with these initiatives and those initiatives today.

UEN produced the Radio Environmental Calendar for stations to include in their news shows. UEF did also produce documentaries like a "A Day with Rolling Thunder" in 1978 for satellite distribution for the “Symposium on Humanities” international satellite conference. Although UEF invited Rolling Thunder to go to Europe and speak at the symposium, RT said he was not allowed to travel to speak at the conference by the U.S. Government.

• The three part documentary "A Day with Rolling Thunder" is available on the UEF website. Part one is on-line with two others to follow shortly.

Human and Civil Rights Initiatives:

In 1978, UEN began to work on human rights issues in our own country because RT told us to start in our own land rather than others. So UEF began an international Human Rights campaign for the Hopi and Native American Indians. That was and still is intertwined with energy resource exploitation and development issues of today. This can be seen in the North Dakota, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe protests against the $3.8 billion dollar Dakota Access Pipeline issues of today.

• View the Hopi Story for more information on the UEF web site.

• There is an interview on Hopi and Native American Sovereignty with UC Davis Professor Clyde Jacobs who is an expert in that field.

• See a visual tour of the Black Mesa Kayenta Strip Mine and coal slurry operations.

• Lastly hear a short interview with John S. Boyden who was instrumental in the Hopi land disputes who was attorney for the Hopi.

UEF International Human Rights Campaign and Petition:

Initiated at the First World Congress in Florence Italy.

• UEF did receive thousands of petition signatures by mail from Europe, Japan and United State in support of the Human Rights Initiative.

• UEF is in contact with Hopi today and notes the outcomes of the multi decade battle for their energy rich land, and recent bankruptcy of the energy developer: Kennecott Copper.

• Kennecott Copper and subsidiaries of Peabody Coal, and Peabody Energy are all players in the 4-Corners strip mine energy development issues and related human rights crisis with Headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah until changing hands in 1995. Kennecott Company is now owned by British metals and mining company Rio Tinto plc.

Initial United Earth News Obstacles Now Removed:

In 1977, with no Internet, UEF began plans to link universities across the United States to allow students to join in the news and education network.

In order to put up the news and research enterprise, UEF was given a quote by RCA Satellite Company of $6 million dollars a year to provide Satellite up-link/down-link time to connect universities in all 50 United States. United Earth Fund, UEN's parent, could not raise the funds needed at that time, in order to connect the universities and schools. The lack of communication technology was the critical barrier. This obstacle is gone now with the Internet and digital media news production capabilities are in place to advance this initiative.

United Earth Fund has a mission to support LIFE as the highest value on planet Earth.

Our aim is achieve that through public education and strategic initiatives.

UEF is creating a KickStarter crowd funding project to launch EnviroNotice. Environotice is Student-sources, peer-curated and globally distributed. It will provide real time alerts for oil spills, and other environmental/ecology emergencies. It also will offer a central calendar with global environmental and ecological issues, activities and events of all large and small players and actors.

Our ultimate goal is to level the Life Supporting Ecology playing field by helping passionate people like you to connect to exciting projects where you can make a big difference by participating. We want you to take action and link to the topics, areas and actions that you are passionate about.

• For example our Fracking Calendar and Endangered Species Calendar allow you to find who is doing what and where with context on each issue.

• We support life. That is our angle and activity.

The EnviroNotice Central Calendar will provide summary data on key topics:

• How many Tigers are left and where are they? Who is doing what to preserve this species? What are the issues with the indigent native populations in the habitat area? What are the economic interests at play? How long might we have before the death knell sounds for a species?

Our aim is to make it easy and fun to find out and connect to your interest.

With education, team work and student power, our aim is to protect Mother Nature/Ecology, Environment and Human Rights locally and globally.

Students around the world make this ambition and initiative possible. UEN and EnviroNotice make it possible to find your interests and connect to them by taking action or just keeping informed.

So we invite you to join in, make new friends and make a difference!