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In a country known for its elegant and flashy display of beautiful and wealth, there are groups of people, particular in the Amazon Rainforest, who still live detached from modernity and lifestyle of the contemporary world. Even though some of those groups live in voluntary isolation, they are united in their fight for land and environmental rights. One of these groups is the Kayapo, a group of around nine thousand indigenous people, who lives in the village of Gorotire along the Xingu River. Although the Kayapo have famously evolved from an isolated tribute to active voice against numerous developmental projects proposed by the Brazilian government, other groups such as rubber tappers in the Xapuri area have also made significant progress in securing political and cultural rights. While these communities and indigenous groups often share different cultures and customs, they are connected through a common struggle: defending their cultural and political identity amidst oppression and neglect from the Brazilian government.

Many of these people that live this sustainable way are indigenous peoples and have been displaced by the government or by natural disasters caused by climate change. The men and women within these groups are affected. Desertification is an example in Africa and Asia where the deserts are expanding. It destroys suitable

The Amazon is the planet's largest remaining rainforest. However, it is in danger because of deforestation and climate change. It is also home to over 20 million people. Greenpeace created a campaign to solve this problem called “Save the Amazon”. Due to this campaign, the organization is trying to stop companies from taking advantage of these natural resources without limits, protecting both indigenous people’s rights and environment. To be more specific, Greenpeace fights against the construction of a huge dam, which will eventually flood an area of rainforest. This project has not come to an end yet, but the organization keeps trying to prevent the impact of this

In 2004, Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize for her achievements with the Green Belt Movement, which is a non-profit NGO that she founded in her native Kenya. Planting trees for food, timber and fuel isn’t an act that anyone could see as the first step to winning a Nobel Peace Prize. Although, with that simple action, Wangari Maathai of Kenya started down the path that helped to regain her country’s land from a period of deforestation while supplying new sources of nourishment to rural communities. Terry is a Mormon who grew up loving nature and aiming to keep it natural so it was hard for her to understand why there were many people who didn’t care. She found peace in a bird refuge where she then went multiple times. This was her hideaway place, where things made sense. At Great Salt Lake, the bird refuge is home to her, and her family before her. She learned a lot from her grandmother about the ways of the lake, the animals, and how it was to be conserved. Williams clearly takes an ecofeminist stand in Refuge because women are more connected with nature than men. and equality between humanity and earth is very important. The push Williams forces towards women’s rights sends a strong message of resistance about the male patriarchy. Because of the positive outcomes her changes would bring, Williams viewpoint for ecological safety is very significant. There is a lot of progress to be made, but by

Before the loss of springbank clover Coast Salish people ecologically managed the site by selective harvesting of root vegetables, weeding, and clearing which are all practices of stewardship. Creating my plant creation I was able to see that ethnobotany can be a bridge to reconciliation through practices of stewardship. Stewardship relates directly to the principle that Chief Adam Dick (Kwaxsistala) practices, teaches and values deeply, “Keeping it living”. By stewarding and “Keeping it living” we are not resentfully harming plants or animals by overharvesting and we are allowing them to continue to grow and reproduce. Furthermore, we are maintaining and sharing the knowledge at a global level to continue to encourage sustainable resource

is a social movement dedicated to empowering individuals and communities, providing resources, raising awareness, celebrating, and increasing independence, seeking to help further autonomy, empowering individuals and communities, pushing environment and economic responsibility, and increasing dynamic, transparent, and open governance. Their goal: to share this idea with the 15 million inhabitants, spread sponsorship, services, resources, and support, allowing everyone and anyone to be their own agent to change around important issues. The region (and those who make it up) advocate towards an autonomous, resilient, self-sufficient, responsible, and accountable

Sustainability is complex, and there are many different ways that we can promote sustainability in our lives. Through the exploration of how activists choose to promote sustainability in their lives we can learn about the importance of empowerment and storytelling.

In Dave McBride’s “Our Children Are Not Poverty Porn” he addresses the issues that arise from considering Native children, youth and families as victims. Although this may be the case there are a lot of ideas such as self-determination, “resilience” and the “ecological model” which help address the ways that these Native people can be empowered to become leaders and intellectuals, leaving the stereotypes behind.

In his esteemed novel, “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming,” Paul Hawken inspires with a call to environmental attention. As a both writer and entrepreneur dedicated to our world’s ecosystems, Hawken seems to understand the impact we have created on our planet. Despite this, he also appreciates the human capacity to create an equal impact on the other end, and make positive progress. He defines this as the “Movement,” being an assembly of environmentally-minded groups and NGO’s coming together to save the dying ecosystems of the planet. Although Hawken’s optimism should be admired, his outlook seems slightly quixotic.

The protests were a means to describe people’s condemnation of the Colonizing governments’ abuses of the environment at the expense of Native peoples’ lands. For example, the protests emerge a wave of Native activism on environment and human rights matters, as manifestations condemned the spread of wildfire across Native lands (Laduke, par 5).

Most people here in America love to drive nice expensive cars, live in big beautiful homes, and spend their money as they please. In his essay, “The Singer Solution to World Poverty,” Peter Singer argues that we can save children’s lives by donating to those in need because “so much of our income is spent on things not essential to the preservation of our lives and health” (9). We should refrain from buying anything that is not essential so that we can help hungry children overseas.

Nonetheless the projects were considerably fun and intriguing. I am interested in researching sustainability because I not only have experience but admiration for sustainability in general. I enjoy gaining new perspectives and new ways to organize infrastructure. In particular I want to research sustainable communities who meet energy demands and food security with the use of sustainable practices. I would like to examine how the results of sustainability in these communities reshape equality, environmental health, and human

You bought those new Jordans yet? How about the new iPad? What if I told you that you could possibly save a child’s life with that money? In his September 5, 1999 New York Times Magazine article “The Singer Solution to World Poverty,” Peter Singer goes in on American consumerism and its connection to world poverty. He also explains how donating $200 to overseas aid organizations like UNICEF and Oxfam America is enough to “help a sickly 2-year-old transform into a healthy 6-year old.” He goes on to point out that an American household only really needs to spend $30,000 a year on basic necessities. This number remains the same regardless of income so any income above this should be donated to these

As the environmental movement has brought attention to the severe ecological degradation that has occurred all over the world since the Industrial Revolution, more and more attention is also being brought to the injustices that have divided and marginalized certain members of society, both on local and global scales. Arguably the worst affected have been indigenous peoples worldwide. European colonialism brought pestilence, rape, murder and the destruction of entire civilizations to some of the most culturally and biologically diverse regions of the world. The remnants of those cultures that managed to survive are now being subjected to neo-colonialism in the form of expansive trade and globalization.

When I joined Trent University for Graduate School under the Sustainability Studies program in September 2017, it surprisingly became a whole new place, new people and exciting in program instructors different from the other universities attended while looking for a career in development studies, environment and peace studies, sustainable natural resource management and community development studies. The Colloquium Course among the other courses in the program, is one to which I have built new ideas and approaches to some of the questions not answered during my career trait. There have been events in the course that I personally attended and enjoyed, The Trent Market Garden educational event on Civic Agriculture, The Windy Pine retreat and the in-class power point presentation on Indigenous Peoples, Canada and the Possibility of Reconciliation by David Newhouse. This course is relevant to understanding the whole idea behind community development, involvement and participation towards sustainable practices. These ideas are explained in details and their relevance to society are explained by different guest speakers within the classroom, workshops and symposiums.