Earth Junkies – Childrens Charter for Rights of Mother Earth
Allow your heart to burst open with the stories of children share their adventures learning to decipher the world around us. Earth Junkies is developing the first global Children’s Charter for the Rights of Mother Earth. The Earth Junkies Project...
WECC Voices from South Africa COP17 and Moving Forward in 2012
THE WOMEN’S EARTH AND CLIMATE CAUCUS – January 2012 By Wyolah Garden, Project Coordinator Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus “Apartheid seemed an overwhelming challenge that could not be defeated but we mobilized and defeated it. We need the same passion...
Rights of Nature – More than a Dream, a Viable Framework for our Planet
UN Climate Change Conference COP17 – Durban, South Africa – December 2011 My dream is that we as a human race will one day remember our connection to Mother Earth in a way that transforms the way we relate to...
UNFCCC COP17 Rights of Nature Highlights in Durban
UN COP17 Climate Change Conference was held in Durban, South Africa Monday, November 28 – December 9, 2011. While key negotiators for member states ended with an agreement that leaves the planet vulnerable to 3 to 5 degree Celsius temperature...
Is there a Xhosa word for Climate Change
Poet Mbali Vilakazi recites Is there a Xhosa Word for Climate Change? at the closing ceremonies for the COP17 Climate Train in Durban, South Africa. Mbali puts a moving face on the reality of climate change and related COP negotiations...
The COP 17 Climate Train arrives Durban
The Climate Train arrives in Durban to traditional African dance and ceremony! The COP17 Climate Train was greeted in Durban by a range of dignitaries Including National Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres and Chief of...