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Gifts from Africa

By On December 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Last week I returned from the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, where I participated with other international NGO representatives dedicated to creating global climate justice. In addition to attending the actual climate negotiations, I attended sessions addressing the various financial and mitigation mechanisms being considered to absorb carbon and other greenhouse gas [...]

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Scenes from COP17, Durban, South Africa

By On December 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Strategic  Planning Session with Global Alliance for Rights of Nature – December 1, 2011
The planning session location
Tom Goldtooth, president of Indigenous Environmental Network, flanked by Cormac Cullinan and Shannon Biggs of Global Exchange
Spiritual leader Mkhosi Rutledge blessed our planning session and aligned us with the spirit world
A monkey on the University of KwaZulu-Natal campus
Presentation – [...]

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A time of thanks-giving

By On November 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment

In this season of giving thanks, my heart turns to the many friends, supporters and committed sojourners who live with simplicity in caring for all the members of the Earth community, especially those who are most vulnerable.
Every day we feel the mounting urgency to radically alter the economic structures that feed on ceaseless consumption and [...]

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