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April 4-6, 2012, the Indigenous Environmental Network hosted a profound 3 day Rights of Mother Earth Conference at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. This is one selection of a presentation from the conference. More conference coverage is available on the IENearth YouTube Channel.
This video addresses closing remarks of conference:
Domination of and the destruction of the values of the land can be seen when our Indigenous Knowledge is ignored or not shared by all. If people are given a choice based on the reality of what happens to our world when we disregard for the systems that sustain us and what would be if we return to the ancient knowledge that sustained the people of this hemisphere for thousands of years.
Video inspired on this manifesto: proclaimed in 2010 at the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (Cochabamba, Bolivia) featuring the reading of the Preamble and Articles and and 2. Uploaded on May 1, 2011
Brief nterview of Maude Barlow by Amy Goodman on the progress of the Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth within the United Nations, and the resolution addressing harmony with nature, EarthDay 2011. She also references the book, The Rights of Nature: The Case for the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Nature.
Mari Margil, Associate Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), talks about the founding of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature in the Fall of 2010. The mission of CELDF is "Building sustainable communities by assisting people to assert their right to local self-government and the rights of nature." She was interviewed by Barry Heidt of SustainableTV at the Bioneers 2010 Conference in San Rafael, California. Edited and curated by Ruth Ann Barrett, January 2013.
With glaciers melting away, climate change already has become a fact of life for the poorest. Scientist use satellite technology to find ways to deal with dramatic water shortages in the Andean region. A slow and silent disaster that has started to affect millions.
Published on Dec 19, 2012
Pioneers Lester Brown, Maurice Strong, Rajendra Pachauri, David Suzuki, Bill Ford, Sha Zukang, and Jonathan Porritt say that we are in a race against time. We are living in a small window when we can still affect positive change, have the technology to deliver that change, and could see the benefits of action towards sustainability for the planet. Inaction poses the greatest security threat.
Eero Paloheimo has worked as designer, politician and university professor. He has written eight books and many articles about the prospects of future and environmental issues. In this lecture, he emphasizes we have but decades to change our attitude from us being the disease to being the doctor. Here are the first two of his strategies to change the world. First strategy is first aid. Second strategy is user (consumer) health care - we produce things and do not design to work properly and must plan new cities.
Speech before the American Public Works Association (APWA) Sustainability in Public Works Conference, July 27, 2011 in Portland, Oregon. Too often the debate over sustainability is brought down to a level of minutiae or a debate over whether or not climate change is real or not rather than understanding the importance of keeping the balance between the natural and man-made environment. He cites Rachel Carson, Jane Benyus, and David Orr as models of integrity and vision.
George Crombie is President of the APWA and a senior faculty member for public works administration in the MPA program at Norwich University military college in Vermont.
He was interviewed by Ruth Ann Barrett of EarthSayers.tv, voices of sustainability.
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