We Can Change the Weather

Fossil fuel interests reach their tentacles into the Summit. I should not have been surprised. Sustainable economic development that would create jobs and the expected collateral generation of long-term economic security as a concrete strategy to adapt and mitigate climate change met its greatest enemy, face to face, when a well-oiled hand prominently extended itself [...]

Some 350 peoples from 80 different Indigenous nations engaged in multilateral discussions from the 7 regions of the world. Coming from Tanzania, the Maasai , from Vietnam, the Hmong, from Belize, the Maya, from the Arctic Circumpolar region, the Inuit, from the far east of Russia, the Chukotka, from the South Pacific, the Samoa, [...]

On Wednesday, April 23, 2009, Indigenous Peoples from the four directions gathered on day 3 of the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change (IPGSCC) and continued to explore thematic sessions of health and food security, Indigenous knowledge and decision making, environmental stewardship, and energy generation on the precipice of climatic collapse. Each [...]