EVENTS

Tuesday, July 13, 2010: 

Dr. Vandana and Mira Shiva, M.D. at the Center for Earth Jurisprudence
“Ecological Integrity: Reconnecting Humans, Health and Habitat” 

Dr. Vandana Shiva, author and renowned environmental activist, is the founder of Navdanya, a movement to protect biological and cultural diversity and food security that has helped create the largest direct marketing, fair trade organic network in India (www.navdanya.org). Dr. Vandana Shiva is the winner of the Right Livelihood Award, the “alternative Nobel Prize,” and has authored such works as “Stolen Harvest - The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply” and “Earth Democracy - Justice, Sustainability, and Peace.”

Her sister, Dr. Mira Shiva is a physician and public health activist; she has devoted three decades to issues of primary health care; the right to health, food and essential medicines; and gender and social justice. Director of the Initiative for Health Equity and Society and a founding member of the worldwide People’s Health Movement (www.phmovement.org), she was awarded India’s National Award for Women’s Development Through Application of Science and Technology for her pioneering work in women’s health, right to life-saving medicines and rational health care.

They are joined by a panel of experts, featuring:
Dr. Mahadev Bhat, professor at FIU’s Department of Earth and Environment (http://agroecology.fiu.edu/)
Léonie Hermantin, deputy director of the Lambi Fund (www.lambifund.org) of Haiti, and
Susan Luck, president of the EarthRose Institute (www.earthrose.org).

Registration closed – thank you for your interest.

Conference ($45; $15 students):                                          2:30 - 5:45 p.m., Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Dinner, Vandana Shiva keynote ($50; students $25):         6:00 - 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Both conference and dinner ($80 early registration/$90 after June 15, 2010; students $40)   

Thank you for your interest; the conference and dinner are now full.

Please e-mail crauseo-danclair@stu.edu or ngerard@stu.edu with questions or comments.

 

“Whose Land is it Anyway? Empowerment and community of place”: Schumacher College, in association with Landscope and the Gaia Foundation, offers a course led by Alastair McIntosh, Iain MacKinnon, Sulemana Abudulai from 27 September - 1 October, 2010 in Devon, England.
     Increasing urbanization over the centuries has weakened our understanding of the link between people and the land on which we all depend for food, shelter and other basic needs. Today more and more communities are demanding the right to have their own land, whether it be urban groups wanting to grow food or have a green recreational space, or traditional societies reclaiming rights to land they have lived on for generations. The process of gaining community ownership or control of land involves working within a legal framework that has not in the past been friendly to community rights, and also can present that group with a new set of responsibilities and challenges. This course will address both aspects of the process.
     Alastair McIntosh will share from his experience of land reform on the Isle of Eigg, which contributed to Scotland’s Land Reform Act and the two percent of the land now coming under community ownership. With him, Iain MacKinnon will share from his work in Scotland and Ireland on land and indigenous identity. Sulemana Abudulai has been involved with issues of land tenure and land-use all of his life, working in his own community in northern Ghana and with a range of organizations such as the African Biodiversity Network. He also researches and writes about land economy and resource use.
Course Fees (£750) include accommodation, food, field trips and all teaching sessions.
Find out more at http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/whose-land-is-it-anyway-empowerment-and-community-of-place.
Visit https://www.dartington.org/schumachercollege/ to reserve your place in this course. Click here for recent workshops, including:       

Who’s Next? (And What Will We Leave Them?) - Safeguarding the Earth for Future Generations, with keynote address by professor of law Alyson Craig Flournoy

“The Everglades and Ecosystem Restoration - Sharing the Corps Values,” with principal deputy assistant secretary of the army (Civil Works) Terrence “Rock” Salt

“In It Together - Protecting the Everglades and Florida Bay,” with superintendent of Everglades National Park Dan Kimball