Mike, the chair of the Climate Change Iwi Leaders Group, is part of the Maori, the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand, who are in particular vulnerable to climate change. Through seeing all the impacts of climate change in his own country, he became an activist and now he responses to the climate emergency with …
Willem, an expert in landscape restoration, shares with us how his early fascination for nature has shaped his path through life. Having worked for the International Union for Conversation of Nature, he speaks about his rich experiences of working in the tropics and how the restoration of rural degraded areas can regenerate diversity and communities. …
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Visolela’s message comes straight from a reality of community, deep relation with the land, and reverence for the power and fragility of nature. Her stories remind us how communities can be at the center of the preservation of our future. We hear about the situation in Africa regarding climate funds, climate injustice and the ongoing …
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Wen shares about the history and the actuality of Chinese rural communities and their recent developments. Indeed, there has been a great deal of attention from the political and economic powers to the growth and the greening of countryside settlements. He explains some of the government strategies around community, business, and their response to the …
In Thomas’ view, climate change is a crisis of relationship. Our cultures are built on the dark lakes of pain or trauma from the past. When cruelty is too stark to be integrated it leaves a mark on our individual and collective psyche. Healing of trauma can help us to ground and experience that our …
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Sonita is an inspiring example of the huge impact that empowered youth can have. Her vocation and enthusiastic work in different dimensions of sustainability have created a very needed change of paradigm around her, not only transforming people’s relationship with their land but also by challenging cultural gender norms in Africa. She is a witness …
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Sandrine brings a very intelligent outlook onto the web of society and the interconnectedness of its different agents, recognizing how everyone has a role in “emerging from the emergency”. She shares important updates on what is recently changing in the political and financial spheres while urging movements of youth and communities to be at the …
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Sabine is a renowned voice for questions of community- and peacebuilding that goes far beyond the human community. She shares examples from the Tamera Ecovillage and their way of cooperating with the wider community, based on the foundation of trust. To shift from fear to trust through truthful communication and to reconnect with the source …
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Pat wholeheartedly invites us to find our identity and purpose outside of the modern western systems. Her very own activist and community experiences have taught her how fundamental the power of community is. Even more so when there’s a need to stand up against legal constructs yet for the Earth and its people – as …
Om Sunisa grew up in a rural village and was from her very beginning immersed in community life. When she noticed negative developments in her birth village, she started to study communities more in-depth – both in theory and in practice. From her experience, she shares about the major elements for empowered communities, the ways …