Embracing an Equitable Earth
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"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make."
— Jane Goodall
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Embracing an Equitable Earth
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An Excerpt from "Earthrise"
Just as we chose to go to the moon
We know it’s never too soon
To choose hope.
We choose to do more than cope
With climate change
We choose to end it—
We refuse to lose.
Together we do this and more
Not because it’s very easy or nice
But because it is necessary,
Because with every dawn we carry
the weight of the fate of this celestial body orbiting a star.
And as heavy as that weight sounded, it doesn’t hold us down,
But it keeps us grounded, steady, ready,
Because an environmental movement of this size
Is simply another form of an earthrise.
To see it, close your eyes.
Visualize that all of us leaders in this room
and outside of these walls or in the halls, all
of us changemakers are in a spacecraft,
Floating like a silver raft
in space, and we see the face of our planet anew.
We relish the view;
We witness its round green and brilliant blue,
Which inspires us to ask deeply, wholly:
What can we do?
Open your eyes.
Know that the future of
this wise planet
Lies right in sight:
Right in all of us. Trust
this earth uprising.
All of us bring light to exciting solutions never tried before
For it is our hope that implores us, at our uncompromising core,
To keep rising up for an earth more than worth fighting for.
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"Notes from a Climate Victory Garden"
Rebalance: Greenhouse Gases (CO2, N2O, CH4, H2O vapor) with photosynthesis.
Recognize: Plants cool by evaporation, ground cover, shade, and precipitation
Replant: Lawns with Victory Gardens, as in world war past.
Regenerate: Biodiverse farms with trees-flowers-herbs-pasture-animals.
Restore: Carbon out of air and back into soils, where it belongs.
Replace: Industrial monocultures with regenerative permacultures.
Revisit: Food production by many small farms, not a few megafarms.
Reject: Fossil fuel-based pesticides, plastics, and propaganda.
Rethink: Healthy ecosystems and economies for all life.
Relocalize: Slow food, slow lifestyles, and slow economies.
Rekindle: Simple and good, nature and nurture, feeling overthinking.
Refeel: Kinship with pivoting sunflowers and starry fireflies.
Revive: Wildness, woodlands, wetlands, wildlife, waterways.
Reestablish: Health of bees, butterflies, birds, bats, beetles.
Respect: Work of insects, both pollinating and recomposing life.
Remember: Everything is connected. Everyone lives downstream and downwind.
Reimagine: Deep conservation, cooperation, and community.
Rebalance: Nature with nature. Mimic her. Sense her. Be her.
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The Role of Business in Supporting a Thriving Natural World
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This brief focuses how business can support thriving natural world. Businesses can enrich the lives of people, enhance community well-being, and ensure a healthy natural environment. It is vital to ensure that operations, products, and services protect our natural world and lift up people with low-incomes and communities of color.
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Earth Day 2021
From April 20-22, join the world’s leaders for Earth Day 2021. Together, we can prevent the coming disasters of climate change and environmental destruction. Together, we can Restore Our Earth™.
Come back on April 20 for the start of the event, and follow our platforms to join the discussion. The theme of Earth Day 2021 is Restore Our Earth™.
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How to talk about racial justice in sustainability
by Victoria Gilchrist & Heather White
Sustainability centers around leaving the world a better place for the next generation. This implicitly covers all people with no qualifiers. However, sustainability practices have notoriously catered to the wants and needs of the wealthier majority, while excluding the most vulnerable communities by lack of engagement and practice. Sustainability must become synonymous with racial equity.
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What is Climate Feminism?
by Nicole Greenfield
The climate crisis disproportionately impacts women—and women of color in particular. This is why women must lead on its solutions.
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The Future of Inclusive, Sustainable Cities Relies on Public-Private Partnership
by Chante Harris
In light of COVID-19, it is evident that the government plays a pivotal role in taking measures to address some of society’s biggest problems. From climate change to food insecurity and affordable housing, cities face unique challenges. Defined by density, diversity, and size, key stakeholders in urban areas now have to rethink livability, business, and public space.
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Adaptive Public Space: Places for People in the Pandemic and Beyond
Building on its longtime commitment to public spaces, Knight Foundation commissioned Gehl — a global urban planning, design and strategy firm — to conduct an impact assessment of seven public spaces in its portfolio. The findings illustrate the power of public space as a platform for community development: whether by building resident trust, spurring social activity, supporting economic and workforce development, or catalyzing neighborhood change.
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The Power of Inclusive, Intergenerational Climate Activism
by Breanna Draxler
“Every social movement in the U.S. that has been successful has always had strong youth and students out there leading the charge—and in most cases, leading the charge more aggressively and demanding actions over and beyond the general population,” says Robert Bullard, a professor of urban planning and environmental policy at Texas Southern University.
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Photo by Erik McGregor/Lightrocket/Getty Images
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Trust for Public Land: Earth Month Petition
This Earth Month, use your outside voice: Tell your Representative to pass the Parks, Jobs, and Equity Act, a $500 million emergency investment to bring more parks to more people in more places.
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Planet, People, and Prosperity: Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme
On Tuesday, March 30th the Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH) welcomed Achim Steiner, Administrator of the UN Development Programme, to discuss the nexus of the planet’s and people’s wellbeing and how COVID-19 offers a glimpse of our future with Dr. LaRon Nelson, Associate Dean for Global Affairs and Planetary Health at the Yale School of Nursing and Dr. Robert Dubrow, Associate Professor and Director of the Yale Center for Climate Change and Health at the Yale School of Public Health.
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Joyce Lelukai: Crafting a Brighter Future
Joyce Lelukai is a star beader in the Northern Rangelands Trust-Trading's BeadWORKS program. With support from The Nature Conservancy and others, 1,200 women in Kenya are now earning an income and conserving their environment by making and selling beaded handicrafts.
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No Place Like Home: Indigenous Wisdom & the Seed of Life with Sherri Mitchell
Sherri Mitchell's name in her language is Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset. She is an indigenous rights attorney from the Penobscot Nation and the author of a wonderful book, Sacred Instructions, that we highly recommend checking out. It brings together indigenous lessons, teachings and guidance she has been moved to share with the wider world, on behalf of the elders in her community
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Raising Your Antenna Podcast: Harnessing Urban Innovation to Drive Social Impact
Tune in to hear:
- Using the resources of corporate America to not just make money but to drive social impact
- Chante’s experience as a leader in the movement to transform our cities into smart cities
- Advice for securing pilot projects, undertaking design initiatives, and launching community impact initiatives
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The Well Being in the Nation (WIN) Network invites you to come together, across generations, for a week of gatherings dedicated to Renewal: How can we heal through adversity & secure legacies of well-being & justice for generations to come?
We are meeting April 26 - 30, 2021 to explore ways we can renew our: civic life, economic life, social, emotional, and spiritual life, and connection to a thriving natural world.
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WIN WEEK! April 26th-30th, 2021 The @network_win invites you to come together, across generations, for a week of gatherings dedicated to “Renewal” We will take time to renew ourselves and our communities, our economy, and our earth.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/win-week-april-23-april-30-2021-tickets-146503031511
#WIN4equity #renewal
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The Gift of Ecological Humility
These Afro-Indigenous practices challenge ideas of human supremacy.
by Leah Penniman
Despite the pressures to assimilate, there are those who persist in believing that the land and waters are family members, cling to our ancestral ways of knowing, and continue to practice Earth-based technologies. Among the myriad Afro-Indigenous practices that can assist all of humanity on our journey to an ecological civilization, three are explored herein: Ifa divination, soil stewardship, and cultural biomimicry.
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Photo by Neshima Vitale-Penniman
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Reclaiming Our Common Home
Expand the commons to include everything we need.
by Vandana Shiva
In the commons, we care and share—for the Earth and each other. We are conscious of nature’s ecological limits, which ensure her share of the gifts she creates goes back to her to sustain biodiversity and ecosystems. We are aware that all humans have a right to air, water, and food, and we feel responsible for the rights of future generations.
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Queer, BIPOC Farmers are Working for a More Inclusive and Just Farming Culture
by Aaron Mok
Young, queer farmers of color say they encounter high rates of racism, sexism, and other forms of identity-based oppression in farm country. Here’s how they’re working to change that.
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TOOLS TO BUILD WELL BEING
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InterOptimability Training Curriculum and Certification (ITCC) program
Join us on April 14th, 9 – 10 am PT for our Kick-off webinar!
#ITCCprogram #NASWCA #StewardsOfChangeInstitute
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Well Being Trust Fellow
WBT is seeking a Fellow who is a rising leader with excellent relationship and project management skills and who has formative experience in one or more related fields/sectors of mental health and well-being and/or community health and development.
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ChangeLab Solutions Housing Solutions Collaborative
ChangeLab Solutions is accepting applications for the Housing Solutions Collaborative ― a learning collective for cross-sector community teams that will offer peer support, technical assistance, and a stipend to help teams in eight cities advance legal and policy solutions to the growing housing crisis.
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WOC/CS
WOC/CS, pronounced /woke•sīs/, is a collective created to support women of color who want to connect, collaborate, identify mentorships, job opportunities and seek resources within sustainability. We love what we do and use our superpowers of subject matter expertise in sustainability and social innovation to empower women of color and improve our environment.
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The All We Can Save Project
Many of today’s most compelling climate leaders, across generations, are women—especially Black, Indigenous, and other women of color. Despite burdens, systemic barriers, and burnout, women are already leading boldly and effectively and throwing open doors to welcome people into climate work. A powerful, transformational climate-feminist ecosystem is emerging.
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American Sustainable Business Council
4/13 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET
ASBC and SVC invite you to join us Tuesday, April 13 at 2pm ET Turning up the Heat on Corporate Impact Reporting with Steven Rothstein (Ceres), Veena Ramani (Ceres), and Carolyn Pincus (American Sustainable Business Council).
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American Museum of the American Indian
April 22–25, 2021
The Living Earth Festival, a signature annual event at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, is going virtual in 2021. Stream this online experience on demand over four days or watch later on the museum’s YouTube channel. Presentations will explore agricultural trends, innovations, and sustainability in Native communities with a focus on Native agricultural businesses
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Children and Nature Network
4/27 at 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET
This interactive workshop will introduce the core components of the Thriving Together framework. Attendees will deepen their understanding of the framework through dialogue, a practice that bridges difference and builds civic muscle. Attendees will leave the workshop with a set of tools and resources to begin to explore transformational change in their organizations, communities, or networks.
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