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Dr. Vandana Shiva on the World Food Emergency presented by the Temple of Understanding ECO JUSTICE FOR ALL speaker series. --THIS IS A MUST SEE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGzHbWDmL8U&t=2569s

WOMEN LEADERS SPEAKING ON ECO JUSTICE FOR ALL Please listen to the wisdom of these respected women leaders speaking on the climate emergency from our ECO JUSTICE FOR ALL series and from FORUM2020. Marlow Baines, Youth Director of Earth Guardians.... Kehkashan Basu, Founder and President of Green Hope Foundation. Rabbi Ellen Bernstein, Founder Shomrei Adamah, Keepers of the Earth. Astrid Caldas, PhD, Senior climate scientist with Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Isha Clarke, Co-founder and activist with Youth Vs Apocalypse. Rev. Susan Hendershot, President of Interfaith Power & Light. Lyla June, Indigenous musician, scholar and community organizer. Prof. Dr. Azza Karam, Secretary General of Religions for Peace Dr. Robin Kimmerer, Plant ecologist, writer and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York. Audrey E. Kitagawa, JD, Chair of the Parliament of the World’s Religions. Eda Zavala Lopez, Peruvian shaman-curandera, sociologist and environmental-social activist. Erin Lothes, PhD, Theologian at Saint Elizabeth University, Morristown, NJ. Grandmother Mona Polacca, Hopi/Havasupai/Tewa elder is Chair of the International Council of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, Secretary-General of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance. Dr. Vandana Shiva, Founder, Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (India) and President of Navdanya International. Jyotsna Singh, PhD, Delhi University (Philosophy) is Director of The Dara Shikoh Centre and The Amar Mahal Museum and Library, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Heather McTeer Toney, National Field Director, Moms Clean Air Force; Former Regional Administrator for Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Southeast Region during Obama Presidency; Former Mayor of Greenville, Mississippi. Mary Evelyn Tucker, PhD, Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar at Yale University The School of Forestry and Environmental Studies & Divinity School and the Department of Religious Studies. Venerable Dr. Yifa, Founder of Woodenfish Foundation.https://templeofunderstanding.org/women-leaders-speaking-o/

The United Nations Environment Programme Making Peace With Nature report provides a scientific blueprint for solving our planetary emergency. Amid a wave of investment to re-energize economies hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, and with vital decisions on climate and biodiversity protection due in 2021, the blueprint lays out the roles that everyone from governments and businesses to communities and individuals can and must play in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqHnmN2A5Yw&feature=emb_logo

The Temple of Understanding India Foundation will be celebrating the Anniversary of the Temple of Understanding, founded by Juliet Hollister in 1960, and celebrating the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi this weekend with an international webinar. Both Dr. Vandana Shiva and Chair of the Board, TOU, Alison Van Dyk, and will be speaking at the event. Conversation on Life Enhancing ValuesNo More Hate, No More Fear: Promoting Compassion & Harmony ... 20 and 21 February, 2021, 5:00-8:00pm IST Honorable Chairman of the TOU India Foundation, Dr. Karan Singh, has written, in the present situation, global as well as national, we are passing through a period of conflict, deep polarization and uncertainty. At a time like this it is important that individuals and institutions who are dedicated to peace and harmony should play a proactive role providing hope and optimism. The international conference is held in collaboration with McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada and the Institute of Liver and Biliary and Liver Sciences and is supported by Shastri-Indo Canadian Institute. New Dehli and the Dara Shikoh Centre for the Arts, Jammu. Register in advance on Zoom by using webinar code: 915 3806 5228 and Passcode 619759.

The pandemic is the final straw for millions of people already struggling with the impact of conflict, climate change, inequality, and a broken food system that has impoverished millions of food producers and workers. Meanwhile, those at the top are continuing to make a profit; eight of the biggest food and drink companies paid out over 80 million to shareholders the big technology giants walked away with trillions, 14 trillion by further destroying the food system. So we a...re in a literal food emergency and this emergency is fueling new ways of making more money out of hunger. Excerpt from Vandana Shiva’s talk on the World Food Emergency held online on Feb 12, 2021, as a part of the Temple of Understanding ECO JUSTICE FOR ALL Speaker Series. Please see the full 1.5 hour talk with Dr.Vandana Shiva and Q&A with Temple of Understanding, UN Representative, Grove Harris here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGzHbWDmL8U&t=2560s See more

At 10am ET TODAY- join us! Do you know that we are facing a WORLD FOOD EMERGENCY? World-renowned activist, scientist, influential author and food sovereignty advocate, Dr. Vandana Shiva, calls on citizens worldwide to protect ourselves and our planet. Shiva speaks with urgency about the social and ecological brink of extinction and the desperate need to deepen our democracies, reclaim our commons and regenerate the Earth. Join us this Friday for the ECO JUSTICE FOR ALL Speaker Series: Temple of Understanding UN Representative, Grove, Harris, talks with Dr. Vandana Shiva about the world food emergency. Send us your questions for Dr.Shiva to address! Tickets can be purchased on Eventbrite, starting at $5. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/136658371869

Friday Feb 12-- DR.VANDANA SHIVA on the World Food Emergency-- Tickets available for this important online webinar!