They didn’t get much press—the 15,000 or so people who gathered last April in Cochabamba, Bolivia, for a different kind of climate gathering. Discouraged by what the world “leaders” failed to accomplish last December at the UN meeting in Copenhagen, these citizens and ordinary folks, many of them indigenous people from smaller countries, led the way in the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. Read More…
Monthly Archives: November 2010
This Thanksgiving weekend is a good time to thank the Earth for providing all our food. Because the trees, the plants, the crops are listening . . . Emigdio Ballon, a Quechua man from Bolivia, is an agronomist and plant … Read More…
I’ve fallen in love all over again with the native grasses of the prairie. Four autumns in Colorado, and every year I think they must be getting more stunning. … Read More…