Ogallala Aquifer
Cees urges to think beyond the CO2 crisis: instead considering the entire watercycle, not only what we use domestically, but also what we use for indirect consumption of clothing and food.
The exhaustion of one of world’s biggest aquifers cries out.
A hundred years ago, Iowa was part of one of the largest ecosystems in the world, a contiguous prairie that spanned from Canada to Texas and Illinois to Nebraska. Iowa’s prairie once hosted a diversity of life on par with a rainforest. Today, only one-tenth of one percent of the original prairie remains.
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Upon migrating into USA, Sandy imagines becoming citizen of Maple Nation, beyond state boundaries such as ‘us District of Columbia’
Robin Wall Kimmerer – American Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology; and Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) (WIKI).
Robin Wall Kimmerer – Profesor distinguido estadounidense de biología ambiental y forestal y director del Centro para los Pueblos Nativos y el Medio Ambiente de la Facultad de Ciencias Ambientales y Forestales de la Universidad Estatal de Nueva York (SUNY-ESF) (WIKI).
Now living at Kjipuktuk, but grown up in Nashwaaksis/Fredericton
… mouth of Saint John’s River. ….
… territory that has been stewarded by both the Mi’kmaw as well as the Wolastoqiyik.
… happens to be nów New Brunswick Canada / Maine US,
Quaker Meeting for Worship in Groningen: Thank you for introducing yourself and for your encouraging words on my presentation by watershed and native territory – not by state borders or highway logic.
Missouri River and Prairie Land (us-state of Kansas), actually born and raised among farmers that saw mainly blessing and virtually no furie of the prairie lands.
Río Misuri y Tierras de Praderas (estado de Kansas, EE. UU.), en realidad nacido y criado entre agricultores que vieron principalmente bendiciones y prácticamente ninguna furia en las tierras de praderas.
Ray, professor Christian Ethics, and well spirited promotor of the so-called Peace Church Tradition.
Ray, profesor de Ética Cristiana y entusiasta promotor de la llamada Tradición de la Iglesia de la Paz,
The Great Lakes embrace the lands in which the *Haudenosaunee-People live, honouring the great prophet who instilled Peace among the warring tribes.
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Once a year, on November 11th, they celebrate the so called Canandaigua treaty, travelling: with friends and allies travelling in from all directions, in humble honor of Mother Earth.