Open Your Eyes by Milena Paraschive and Radu Popescu
Winners of the Rio+20 Global Rockstar Contest – Milena Paraschive and Raud Popescu of Romania – sang their beautiful composition of Open Your Eyes for the Rights of Nature as the Foundation for Sustainability Panel Dialogue and Rights of Mother...
Acknowledging President Correa of Ecuador
On June 21 President Rafael Correa addressed a gathering of over 200 people at Rio+20 to discuss Rights of Nature and the concept of Buen Vivir which means living in harmony with nature, with oneself and with others. Buen Vivir...
UN Radio: Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature promotes its cause at Rio+20
More than 100 heads of State and government, along with thousands of people from civil society are in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development. The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature is hoping that...
Rights of Nature and the Commons
Remix the Commons is a collaborative and evolutive multimedia project. It aims to document and illustrate the key ideas and practices of the commons movement, including through the creative process of the project itself. The following videos with Shannon Biggs,...
Kari Oca II Blessing of the Declaration
Blessing ceremony of the historical Kari Oca II Declaration, Kari-Oka Village, at Sacred Kari-Oka Púku, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20 June 2012. Over five hundred Indigenous Peoples from Brazil and throughout the world gathered at Kari-Oca II, an encampment seated...
Peoples Sustainability Manifesto
For Action Beyond RIO+20, June 2012 The fourteen Peoples’ Sustainability Treaties, evolved through a consultative process with hundred of civil society organizations, converged at the Rio+20 to launch a Manifesto on the final day of the summit. They have declared...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon message at Rio+20
Opening day of the Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon opens the session by addressing the UN Major Groups Briefing. [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq74KrQ0Rd8&feature=plcp’] June 21, 2012
Why REDD/REDD+ Is NOT a Solution
Tom B.K. Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network Note: This is an excerpt of one section from the NO REDD READER, A collection of articles written by REDD Monitor, Global Justice Ecology Project, Diego Alejandro Cardona, Tatiana Roa Avendaño, Honduran Garifuna Organization,...
Awakening the Dreamer Symposium in Rio June 13, 2012
Awakening the Dreamer Changing the Dream: Living Beyond War is a profound inquiry into a bold vision: to bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on Earth. You will gain fresh insight about our world,...
Global Exchange Brings Rights of Nature to the 2012 Earth Summit (Rio+20)
by Shannon Biggs In partnership with the Global Alliance, Shannon Biggs and Global Exchange will be a strong voice advocating Rights of Nature at 2012 Earth Summit Rio+20. The following includes excerpts from Shannon’s blog of 7th June 2012. Read...
