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SUMMARY:Freedom to Be: Indigenous Perspectives on How Development Models Affect Their Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday April 24th at 9 a.m. EDT\, join the Center for Earth Ethics for “Freedom to Be: Indigenous Perspectives on How the Mainstream Development Model Affects Their Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief\,” a conversation about the intersection of Indigenous issues\, the concept of freedom of religion or belief\, the development paradigm and the ecological crisis. This virtual discussion will feature Indigenous voices who will explore how international Indigenous communities are affected by the same extractionist industries\, domination mindset and land removal policies that damage the biosphere as a whole. This conversation will also dive into the sustainable development paradigm and challenge its tendency to elevate economic development and devalue biocultural heritage and Earth-honoring ways of life.  \n \n \nTaily Terena of the Terena Indigenous peoples in Brazil and Yolanda Teran of the Kichwa Nation of Ecuador will join us for this panel. Roberto Múkaro Borrero\, Guainía Taíno\, strategic advisor to CEE\, will moderate. CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore will introduce and close the program.  \n \n \nThis conversation is another in the Freedom to Be series that builds on the 2022 report on Indigenous communities by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief. This event is a virtual side event to the 2024 United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \nDr. Yolanda Teran is from the Indigenous Kichwa Nation of Ecuador. She obtained her doctorate degree at the College of Education at the University of New Mexico\, with a concentration in Language\, Literacy and Socio-Cultural Studies. In recognition for her educational work done for Indigenous education at local\, national and international levels\, she achieved two postdoctoral fellowships from 2014 to 2016 under the sponsorship of the University of New Mexico’s Division of Equity and Inclusion and the Native American Studies Department. She is currently researching Indigenous peoples\, languages and biodiversity. Her goal is to create awareness among students\, teachers and Indigenous communities about international issues that affect Indigenous peoples’ life and rights\, and to build a bridge between the community and academia based on mutual respect and understanding. \n \nTaily Terena is an indigenous woman from the Terena Nation in the pantanal the wetlands of Brazil. A land defender and climate advocate\, she has being working for many years for the rights of indigenous peoples. As an anthropologist\, she has studied the history of her people through intergeneration knowledge and through the lens of decolonization. Part of the Terena youth collective\, Inamatí Xâné\, she currently works with Environmental Health and Food Soverty at the IITC – international Indian Treaty Council.
URL:https://centerforearthethics.org/event/freedom-to-be-indigenous-perspectives-on-how-the-mainstream-development-model-affects-their-right-to-freedom-of-religion-or-belief/
CATEGORIES:Biodiversity & Ecosystem Restoration,Climate & Health,Ecology, Spirituality & Faith​,Environmental Justice & Civic Engagement,Indigenous Wisdom, Values & Rights,Rights of Nature & Ecocentric Law,Sustainability & Global Affairs
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SUMMARY:Course | Ecological Restoration & Environmental Justice: Earth Repair
DESCRIPTION:Course Description:\nCommunities around the world work on ecological restoration projects to restore health and balance to damaged ecosystems. With physical and biological aspects\, ecological restoration is also spiritual and cultural work\, addressing the wounds inflicted on people as well as land. Students learn from restoration projects that rely on complex “ways of knowing\,” where ceremony\, community\, and longstanding and attentive relationships with the natural world are fundamental. Topics explored are: approaches and examples of restoration work around the world; restoration work to build community and relationship with place; ceremony and ritual; commodification and monetization of nature; and ethical questions and dilemmas in restoration. \nGuest speakers include Jacqui Patterson\, Catherine Flowers\, and Lyla June Johnston. \nDates/Times: April 5 (1-6 p.m.) and April 6 (9 a.m.-5 p.m.)Location: RemoteInstructor: Karenna GoreRegistration Deadline: March 22\, 2024 
URL:https://centerforearthethics.org/event/course-ecological-restoration-environmental-justice-earth-repair/
CATEGORIES:Biodiversity & Ecosystem Restoration,Climate & Health,Environmental Justice & Civic Engagement,Rights of Nature & Ecocentric Law,Sustainability & Global Affairs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240312T180000
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SUMMARY:Online | Rights of Nature – From Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism
DESCRIPTION:In this webinar organized by Riverkeeper\, CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore\, a Riverkeeper board member\, will be joined by Thomas Linzey of the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights and Riverkeeper Advisory Board Member Steven “Owl” Smith of the Ramapo Munsee Nation to discuss the movement for the “Rights of Nature.” This movement is focused on securing legal standing for natural entities such as rivers\, forests\, and whole ecosystems in a way that provides a necessary counterbalance to the legal doctrine of corporate personhood.
URL:https://centerforearthethics.org/event/online-rights-of-nature-from-anthropocentrism-to-ecocentrism/
CATEGORIES:Biodiversity & Ecosystem Restoration,Indigenous Wisdom, Values & Rights,Rights of Nature & Ecocentric Law,Water
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231206T150000
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SUMMARY:Online | Freedom to Be: Perspectives on the 2022 UN Report on Indigenous Peoples and the Concept of Freedom of Religion or Belief
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n					\n		 \n \nOn Wednesday\, December 6 at 3 p.m. EST\, join the Center for Earth Ethics for Freedom to Be\, a conversation about the intersection of Indigenous issues\, the concept of freedom of religion or belief\, and the climate crisis. This virtual discussion will feature Indigenous voices who will explore how international Indigenous communities are affected by the same extractionist industries\, domination mindset\, and land removal policies that drive climate change. \nConfirmed speakers include Pavel Sulyandziga of the Udege people in Russia\, Laulani Teale of the Kanaka Maoli people in Hawai’i\, and Åsa Larsson Blind of the Sámi Peoples in Sweden. Roberto Múkaro Borrero\, strategic advisor to CEE\, will moderate. CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore will introduce and close the program. \nThe conversation will investigate how Indigenous spirituality’s intrinsic connection to the environment and earth can support an ecologically balanced future. \nThis conversation is another in a series of CEE events that build off the 2022 report on Indigenous communities by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief. \n  \nConfirmed Speakers: \n \nÅsa Larsson Blind is vice-president of the Sámi Council\, of which she has been a member since 2008\, having served as president from 2017 to 2019. She was the first woman to chair the National Sámi Association in Sweden\, serving from 2019 to 2021. Between 2011 and 2015\, she represented the Sámi Council at the Indigenous Peoples’ Secretariat\, while also serving as the Head of Department for the Sámi Council at Senior Arctic Officials (SAO) council meetings. She has been active in several Sámi organizations in Sweden\, including the National Sámi Association (2007-2011)\, the Sámi Educational Center in Jokkmokk (2007-2009)\, and Sáminuorra\, the Sámi youth organization (2002-2007). Larsson Blind was born and raised in a reindeer herding family and holds a Master’s Degree in Human Resources Management and Development from the University of Umeå. \n  \n \nPavel Sulyandziga is the founder and president of the Batani Foundation\, an Indigenous rights organization representing the Indigenous peoples of the Russian Far East. In the late 1980s\, he became a leader of the Udege people. Between 2001 and 2010 he served as the first vice-president of the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON). Between 2005 and 2010 he performed duties as a member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and was a member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights between 2011 and 2017. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. \n  \n \nLaulani Teale is the coordinator of Hoʻopae Peace Project. She is an Indigenous Kanaka Maoli peacemaker\, activist\, musician\, teacher\, artist and writer. She is culturally trained in laʻau lapaʻau (traditional herbalism) and hoʻoponopono (traditional peacemaking)\, specializing in Indigenous health issues related to activism and colonization. She has been a front-line activist in major Kanaka struggles and serves the Kanaka movement in many capacities. She is a cultural bard and haku mele (songwriter)\, training under Liko Martin\, a master bard and long-time force in the Hawai’ian movement. She is a spiritual practitioner involved in the hands-on restoration and protection of sacred places and waters\, as well as a minister and birth worker\, protecting and reviving religious practices of birth\, death\, healing\, aloha ‘āina (love for the land) and sovereignty. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Hawaiʻi School of Public Health.  \n  \n \nRoberto Múkaro Borrero is a long-time advocate for the rights of Indigenous Peoples\, a chief of the Guainía Taíno Tribe\, president of the United Confederation of Taíno People\, and a special advisor for the Center for Earth Ethics. He has a distinguished and diverse background in policy and program development\, and human rights advocacy\, including a specialization on the rights of Indigenous Peoples. He has more than 25 years of experience actively engaging the United Nations system in thematic areas such as sustainable development\, climate change\, the Information Society and the Organization of American States. He served on the staff of the International Indian Treaty Council and the American Museum of Natural History and was a consultant for UNESCO\, UNDP\, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and PBS. A published writer\, an accomplished artist and musician\, he is a member of the Taíno Tribal Nation\, an Indigenous people whose traditional homelands extend through the Greater and Lesser Antilles to the southern tip of Florida. In 2012\, he was traditionally sanctioned a kasike (chief) of the Guainía Taínotribal community.  He has an educational background in communications and cultural studies. In 2013\, Borrero was awarded an honorary doctorate in humanities from Kayiwa International University\, Kampala\, Uganda. \n  \n \nKarenna Gore is the founder and executive director of the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Karenna formed CEE in 2015 to address the moral and spiritual dimensions of the climate crisis.  She is a visiting professor of practice of earth ethics at Union Theological Seminary\, an ex officio faculty member of Columbia University’s Earth Institute\, and an expert in the United Nations’ Harmony with Nature Knowledge Network. She serves on the boards of the Association to Benefit Children\, Pando Populus\,  the Sweetwater Cultural Center and Riverkeeper. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 		\n			\n						RSVP
URL:https://centerforearthethics.org/event/freedom-to-be-freedom-of-religion-or-belief-among-indigenous-peoples/
CATEGORIES:Ecology, Spirituality & Faith​,Educational,Environmental Justice & Civic Engagement,Indigenous Wisdom, Values & Rights,Rights of Nature & Ecocentric Law,Sustainability & Global Affairs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230918T180000
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SUMMARY:Discussion | Hearing Nature’s Voice: Perspectives from Law\, Ethics\, Business and Science
DESCRIPTION:How can the world transition from anthropocentrism to ecocentrism? Join us on Monday\, September 18 at 6 p.m. for “Hearing Nature’s Voice\,” a discussion of why humans must shift away from their extractive and destructive dispositions towards nature. \n\n\n\nUsing modalities such as rights of nature\, rights of future generations\, earth ethics and nature-based governance\, the conversation will explore how to help facilitate this transition so that we can combat climate change\, biodiversity loss\, and other forms of massive environmental degradation\, as well as the human rights violations that go with them. \n\n\n\nPanelists scheduled to speak include Natalia Greene (Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature)\, Nathan Lujan (Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto)\, Gopal Patel (Center for Earth Ethics)\, Alexandra Pimor (Earth Law Center)\, and SD Smith (advisor to Ramapough Munsee Nation). CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore and Earth Law Center Executive Director Grant Wilson will introduce and moderate the program. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
URL:https://centerforearthethics.org/event/discussion-hearing-natures-voice-perspectives-from-law-ethics-business-and-science/
LOCATION:James Chapel\, 90 Claremont Avenue\, New York\, New York\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Educational Initiatives,Indigenous Wisdom, Values & Rights,Rights of Nature & Ecocentric Law
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230321T190000
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SUMMARY:Online Presentation | Water: An Indigenous Perspective
DESCRIPTION:It is important for the world to consider Indigenous world views in relation to water. We invite you to listen. \n\n\n\n“Water: An Indigenous Perspective” is a Fireside Chat between Havasupai\, Tewa and Hopi Elder Mona Polacca and Karenna Gore from the Center for Earth Ethics. This dialogue co-sponsored by the United Confederation of Taíno People\, the NGO Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Climate Heritage Network lifts the voice of Indigenous Peoples with an inter-generational legacy of knowledge to protect and care for nature’s clean water sources. \n\n\n\nAvailable to Stream during NY Water Week\, March 18 – 24\, with a special stream on Tuesday evening\, March 21 at 7 p.m. (New York time) on our website and social media platforms. \n\n\n\nSubscribe below for a link to access and a reminder to tune in. \n\n\n\nThe Center for Earth Ethics supports the UN 2023 Water Conference and the Indigenous Peoples Pre-Summit for the UN Water Conference and especially the integration of Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge to discern meaningful action items for achieving the Water Action Agenda by 2028 and related 2030 goals.
URL:https://centerforearthethics.org/event/water-an-indigenous-perspective/
CATEGORIES:Indigenous Wisdom, Values & Rights,Rights of Nature & Ecocentric Law,Water
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SUMMARY:Reframing Environmental Jurisprudence towards Interconnection
DESCRIPTION:Jerome Greene Hall\, Room 104\, Columbia Law School435 West 116th Street\, New York \n\n\n\nJoin us to learn about the future of environmental jurisprudence in light of climate change and biodiversity loss. Topics will include the rights of nature\, rights of future generations\, and other Earth-centered paradigms. \n\n\n\nPanelists include Paulette Jordan\, Save the American Salmon\, Janet Maccillivray\, Seeding Sovereignty\, Karenna Gore\, Esq.\, Center For Earth Ethics\, Michael Gerrard\, Esq.\, Columbia Law School\, and Elizabeth Dunne\, Esq.\, Earth Law Center. Barnard College student Renata Happle will moderate\, and Maliya Francis\, a Future Earth Leader and a student at Avenues: The World School\, will make a special introduction. \n\n\n\nThis panel is hosted by Columbia’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Earth Law Center.
URL:https://centerforearthethics.org/event/reframing-environmental-jurisprudence-toward-interconnection/
LOCATION:Columbia Law School\, 435 West 116th Street\, New York\, New York\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environmental Justice & Civic Engagement,Rights of Nature & Ecocentric Law
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SUMMARY:Holy Land Living Water
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Earth Ethics is grateful to be continuing to work with our friends at ECO-PEACE MIDDLE EAST following the inspired Sacred Rivers Interfaith ceremony at Union Theological Seminary and the Hudson River during Climate Week. \nThe Center’s Mindahi Bastida will join UNITY EARTH’s international delegation for an historic pilgrimage in February 2020. Holy Land Living Water will be a 7 day journey of spirit and ecology that will include sacred site visits\, music and ceremony\, as well as ecological tours to the Jordan River. \nCELEBRATING UN WORLD INTERFAITH HARMONY WEEK\n \nHoly Land Living Water will raise awareness about the groundbreaking efforts of regional NGO EcoPeace Middle East in facilitating collaboration and regeneration throughout the Jordan River Valley and beyond. The event is also presented in partnership with the United Religions Initiative and will celebrate UN World Interfaith Harmony Week\, an annual celebration in the 1st week of February.
URL:https://centerforearthethics.org/event/4307/
CATEGORIES:Indigenous Wisdom, Values & Rights,Rights of Nature & Ecocentric Law
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