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Category: Environment

Poznan “Sad and Frustrating”

December 11, 2008

Poznan, Poland 11 December Thursday — On this day before the final sessions of the United Nations Framework Conference of Parties meeting on Climate Change can only be described as…

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Indigenous Delegates Meet Bolivia in Poland

December 8, 2008

Poznan, Poland 8 December 2008 — Representatives of Indigenous Peoples’ organizations and President Fawn Sharp of the Quinault Indian Nation meeting as the Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus met this morning with…

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Poznan, Climate and Minds Must Change

December 7, 2008

Posnan, Poland 6 December 2008. The United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change could not have found a better place to convene the 14th session of the Conference of Parties…

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A Place at the Table

November 24, 2008

After the First Session of the new round of talks on Climate Change ended last year in Bali, Indonesia a press reporter lamented the absence of the voice of indigenous…

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Diplomatic Preemption of Environmental Conflicts

November 9, 2008

The Kansas City Star reported today what has for sometime been observed by scholars and diplomats: climate change, especially rapid changes are changing environments in such a way as to…

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High Tech Gas Emissions Threaten Life

October 24, 2008

The manufacture of liquid crystal television screens, microcircuits and photo voltaic cells for solar panels produces the deadly gas nitrogen trifluoride–a gas released into the atmosphere 17,000 times more deadly…

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China Attempts to Stifle NGO Statement on Tibet

September 29, 2008

This report demands widespread understanding and recognition. I offer it in full. Monday, September 29, 2008 1:03 AM From: “Tibetan UN Advocacy” <contact@tibetatun.org> To:dramyeis@yahoo.com China Attempts to Stifle NGO Statement on Tibet (Phayul)…

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Forest Gardening and BioCultural Diversity

September 3, 2008

Global biological and cultural diversity are essential to the Earth’s health, and ancient native “forest gardening” practices are of major importance to promoting such diversity. The Kuikuro people of the…

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FW Nations: Climate Mitigation and Adaptation

September 2, 2008

Fourth World nations are serious parties to local, regional or international negotiations concerning mitigation and adaptation to changes in the climate. Climate Change due to global warming is attributed to…

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Energy Transition-Draconian Measures

August 4, 2008

Fourth World nations in the United States, Canada and throughout the Americas have often sounded the alarm about industrial waste, pollution of the environment and the need to slow demand…

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Chief George Manuel Memorial Indigenous Library

The library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.

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