tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73483765957472047272013-05-18T02:26:10.263-04:00Towards an eco-economy . Vers une éco-économie . Hacia una eco-economíafdmillarnoreply@blogger.comBlogger664125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348376595747204727.post-25992465344473601652013-05-10T11:52:00.000-04:002013-05-10T12:10:05.858-04:002013-05-10T12:10:05.858-04:00

Melina Laboucan-Massimo is a member of the Lubicon Cree First Nation. She has worked with Redwire Media Society, the Indigenous Media Arts Group and the Indigenous Environmental Network. She is now a tarsands climate and energy campaigner with Greenpeace. She tells the story of her people below, The Lubicon are one of many First Nations threatened by extractive industries.  Awaiting

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And this is the word of the Lord God to you all…be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations, wherever you come that your carriage of life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them. Then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in every one…[1]  ~ George Fox The Quaker evangelist George Fox’s words are a call to a life of

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We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. . . We will preserve our planet, commended to our care by God.   President Obama's inaugural address January 2013.   These stirring words gave hope to millions around the world who were despairing for the future of the planet. At last, a

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Re-published from American Friends Service Committee's Acting in Faith blog. This interview was written by Lucy Duncan, AFSC's Friends Liaison. Learn about AFSC and other Quaker peace and social justice work at www.afsc.org/friends. The right to grow food and have access to water Don Bustos in his kitchen at Santa Cruz Farm Don Bustos (DB): The name of our farm is Santa Cruz

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Ted and Ellie Maclin see their life on the land in Tennessee as "lived anthropology:a means of subsistence, a way of living in community, and embodied research". This excerpt from Ted's blog sandworms is about his study of the World Wildlife Federation. It is published with his permission. Over the past few weeks several people including friends and family members have asked me about

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Doug Tallamy is Professor and Chair of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the U of Delaware. This post is excerpted from "gardening for life" on his site Bringing Nature Home. See his book. Chances are, you have never thought of your garden -- indeed, of all of the space on your property -- as a wildlife preserve that represents the last chance we have for sustaining plants and animals that

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Excerpt from Steve Chase, Letters to a Fellow Seeker: a Short Introduction to the Quaker Way (2012). Reprinted by permission of the author and Quaker Press. As a scout I was to be helpful, friendly, curious, kind, thrifty, brave, moral, and reverent. It also meant doing my duty to God and country. Those were things I took very seriously and still do. By 1968 I was 13 and through my mother's

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Jim Kessler grew up in a Quaker family on a dairy farm near Oskaloosa, Iowa. He became interested in environmental issues during graduate school at the University of Northern Iowa while working on his MA in Biology. Kessler has been involved in tallgrass prairie and native plant restoration for 35 years, the last 15 on his and his wife’s 30 acres near Grinnell, Iowa. He says, "I view myself as a

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originally posted by Evelyn Yvonne Thériault in the blog Canoeing In Canada 7 June 2010. ***** Lac de la Vieille is Home Base for me and my husband when we go canoe camping in Parc de la Verendrye. I never fail to discover something new and last week (May, 2010) was no exception! I happened upon this scene while strolling along the beach at the campsite and I had to do a little research

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Published with his permission, this is the 18th in a series that Hugh Robertson, of Ottawa Monthly Meeting (Quakers), has written for a community paper. They are online at his site Ecology Economics Ethics. ***** My daughter and her generation have been given a life sentence for a crime they did not commit. – Mark Hertsgaard  During the three US presidential debates there was just one

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cancellations and freedom from pressing responsibilities the beauty of horizontal flying snow blessed isolation enchantment and heat from flames in the fireplace time to think great thoughts the purity of fresh pure white snow a day to do whatever came to mind thankfulness for a warm, tight abode birds flocking to feeders a hundred at a time the joy of spending time with my beloved

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âpihtawikosisân pron ah-pih-du-wi-GO-si-sahn (“half-son” = 'Métis person' in Plains Cree) is Chelsea Vowel from the Plains Cree speaking community of Lac Ste. Anne, Alberta, about 70 km west of Edmonton. She currently lives in Montreal, Quebec, a 34 year old Métis mother of two girls. She says in her blog: I have  BEd and taught for some time in Inuvik, Northwest Territories.  I obtained my LLB

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On 20 Nov 2012 the Unist'ot'enCamp evicted Apache pipeline surveyors who were found entering Unis’tot’en territory, and recently had to evict them again. (* see historical note) Toghestiy, hereditary chief of the Likhts'amisyu clan of the Wet'suwet'en invoked biKyi'waat'en, the right of the husband, warning them never to return without the pipeline company respecting Free Prior and Informed

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On 20 Nov 2012 the Unist'ot'en evicted Apache pipeline surveyors who were found entering Unis’tot’en territory, and recently had to evict them again. (* see historical note) Toghestiy, hereditary chief of the Likhts'amisyu clan of the Wet'suwet'en invoked biKyi'waat'en, the right of the husband, warning them never to return without the pipeline company respecting Free Prior and Informed

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Caltech professor Ken Libbrecht's research into snowflakes, ice crystals, and their growth: This morphology diagram shows how they are formed under different conditions of temperature and humidity: And a few of his stunning photos. More at his Caltech website, his snowcrystals.com and in the book Ken Libbrecht's Field Guide to Snowflakes.

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Eriel Deranger is a young Denè (Chipewyan) mother. Her father lost his traditional Saskatchewan territory to state-sponsored uranium mining (supposedly for "peaceful purposes"...if you believe that?) and was forced to move to in Fort Chipewyan Alberta, where she works on behalf of the Mikisew Cree (see their pro and con tarsands statements), whose land and health is being destroyed by the

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This heartfelt statement, first published in rabble.ca, should remind all North Americans that we are "treaty people". Broken promises do not change that responsibility. And Aaron James Mills / Waabishki Ma'iingan's respectful address to "all my relations" reflects traditional native spirituality: we are all related, whether four-footed, winged, finned or two-legged people. Something the

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Dr Priscilla Settee, Native Studies, U Saskatchewan, and young mother Sheelah McLean are two of the women who started the Idle No More movement in Saskatoon. Here is what they have to say about why and how it emerged from the grassroots: and Ta'Kaiya Blaney, an 11 year old Sliammon girl, at an Idle No More protest and march in Courtenay BC, 29 December 2012 (video by Billie Harlow): See

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Why we need a circular economy  Al Connor speaking to QEW If nothing else persuades us that we need a new model for the global economy, the present recession should. A number of people reached that conclusion a few years before the “meltdown” in 2008. John Cobb and Herman Daly [1] advocated for it before the turn of the century. David Korten has called for a new economic paradigm in an

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Republished with the author's permission, this article first appeared in the Durango Herald. Lonesome George, photo courtesy arkive.org “Whatever happens to this single animal, let him always remind us that the fate of all living things on Earth is in human hands.” - Wording on information panel beside Lonesome George’s pen             The last member of a species died this year. “

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Brian Tokar An earlier version of this article appeared in Communalism: A Social Ecology Journal, Issue no. 1, December, 2009. Reprinted with the author's permission from Perspectives in Anarchist Theory. One of the inspirers -- like Adbusters -- of the Occupy movement, Brian Tokar was a founder of Climate SOS, the Northeast Resistance Against Genetic Engineering, and directs the Institute

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Landfill Harmonic is a forthcoming feature-length documentary about an orchestra in the Cateura Dump, Paraguay, where child musicians play instruments made from waste materials. It shows their rise through music from a life of danger and poverty. The video crew: Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Fabrizio shot the early footage. Graham Townsley and Neil Barrett are shooting the full-length feature

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This Youtube video by CICERO, the Oslo-based Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, is released under a Creative Commons licence. Feel free to share it. See also Wikipedia's summary of climate negotiations 1992-2012 and NGO reactions to COP-18. Third World Network Doha bulletins, esp. number 23. Canadian NGOs' report. Veteran observer Michael Dorsey's 8 Dec 2012 email

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As one umbrella is a cheap, portable shelter for a single person, many can become shelter for a group of people, in Kengo Kuma's Casa Umbrella, made of ordinary umbrellas modified with extra flaps and zippers sewn on the edges. The umbrellas are combined to form a Buckminster Fuller dome, with any number of entrances and windows. Kuma's aim, he said in a recent interview, is to "recover

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Turning forests into fuel for the new bio-economy – Voices from around the world, a video repository (for UNFCCC Doha COP-18, reprinted from Global Forest Coalition website)   Forests, their biodiversity, and their inhabitants are under attack as never before. In addition to existing problems with respect to the commodification forests, such as illegal logging and the clearing of forests to

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