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Collaborate, connect, & contribute to community!
As we partner with movements that are greater than ourselves, we can make greater positive change in the world.
Here are some projects I am involved with - and recommend as a place to start:
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is committed to restoring a paradigm that recognizes our collective humanity and our joint dependence on the Earth.
It is a Native-led organization, established by Winona LaDuke and Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. As a unique national Native initiative, Honor the Earth works to: a) raise public awareness and b) raise and direct funds to grassroots Native environmental groups to protect the environment and encourage sustainable energy and food systems; systems based on just relationships with each other and with the natural world.
Bumi Sehat
is a non-profit, village-based organization that runs two by-donation community health centers in Bali and Aceh, Indonesia. They provide over 17,000 health consultations for both children and adults per year. Midwifery services to ensure gentle births- 600 new babies into the world each year.
Their mission is to reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality and to support the health and wise development of communities. They provide health services, emergency care, prenatal, postpartum, birth services and breastfeeding support, education and environmental programs to improve quality of life and increase peace.
City Repair
is an organized group action that educates and inspires communities and individuals to creatively transform the places where they live. City Repair facilitates artistic and ecologically oriented placemaking through projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and the natural world. The vision is to inspire people to both understand themselves as part of a larger community and fulfill their own creative potential and activate people to be part of the communities around them, as well as part of the decision-making that shapes the future of their communities.
Warriors Without Weapons
is committed to restoring a paradigm that recognizes our collective humanity and our joint dependence on the Earth.
It is a Native-led organization, established by Winona LaDuke and Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. As a unique national Native initiative, Honor the Earth works to: a) raise public awareness and b) raise and direct funds to grassroots Native environmental groups to protect the environment and encourage sustainable energy and food systems; systems based on just relationships with each other and with the natural world.
NiiJii
White Earth's Independent Tribal radio station- KKWE 89.9 FM
The only independent tribal radio station. This is a powerful tool for indigenous people to share their voice, their language, their perspectives.
Positive Change for Marine Life
"Paving the path to change through understanding, education, and respect." Positive Change for Marine Life was founded on the principles of creating long-term profitable change in regard to marine conservation issues worldwide. Through our core values of understanding, education and respect our mission is to collaborate with people and corporations involved in inhumane and unsustainable marine industries and create profitable, viable alternatives that benefit not only the environment but all involved parties.
350.org
350 means climate safety. To preserve our planet, scientists tell us we must reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere from its current level of 392 parts per million to below 350 ppm. But 350 is more than a number—it's a symbol of where we need to head as a planet. 350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries.
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Amazon Watch
In the Amazon region of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, Amazon Watch is working directly with indigenous communities to build local capacity and protect their lands. The strategies:
1) campaign to persuade decision-makers to honor the rights of indigenous peoples over "development" decisions using media exposure, and legal action to demand social and environmental accountability,
2) strengthen capacity of indigenous communities and partner organizations in the Amazon to better advocate for their own rights,
3) seek permanent protection for threatened areas and vulnerable indigenous populations in the Amazon rainforest,
4) building awareness and promoting green economic alternatives.Their mission is to reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality and to support the health and wise development of communities. They provide health services, emergency care, prenatal, postpartum, birth services and breastfeeding support, education and environmental programs to improve quality of life and increase peace.
Tryon Life Community Farm
TLC Farm, in Portland Oregon, demonstrates how sustainable living techniques can further the conservation of natural resources and public greenspace.
TLC Farm facilitates a diversity of movements, communities and individuals to:
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educate ourselves and each other regarding skills, values, and paradigms for holistic human integration into our ecosystems;
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experience a sustainable urban ecology as possible, practical, and desirable; and
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emerge as empowered co-creators of a well-functioning network of cultures, economies, and polities of deep change.
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