Kaitiakitanga - Guardianship
Defending wildlife on land, sea, and air (including insects), ecosystems, forests, rivers, lakes, and oceans.
We favor training-up armed rangers, in particular, women, to take down poachers, deep sea miners, drillers, roadmakers, clearcutters, pipeline builders, frackers, and assassins of activists.
(International Anti-Poaching Foundation)
Akashinkga captures the heart of women in both a public and private fight, bearing resonance to the statement by IAPF founder Damien Mander that, “Empowering women is the single greatest force for positive change within the world today.”
Akashinga and its Wildlife Crime Unit have carried out 1303 arrests in 724 operations.
Virunga Rangers
Born out of the Congolese commitment to protect Virunga National Park and the five million people who live within a day’s walk of the Park’s borders, the Virunga Alliance aims to foster peace and prosperity through the responsible economic development of natural resources. When these resources are poorly managed, they can lead to extreme cycles of violence. Cultivating peace and stability in the region is tied to the Park’s ability to harness the wealth of the Park to help build new jobs and opportunities for the local population.
Virunga’s Rangers stand fearlessly on the frontline of conservation for the protection of Virunga Park’s wildlife, natural resources, and for the surrounding communities. They routinely face harsh physical conditions, injury, or even death. Over 200 Rangers have been killed in the line of duty. Without the commitment of these brave men and women, Virunga Park would not exist.
Through the responsible and sustainable development of the Park’s key assets – tourism, clean energy, and sustainable agriculture – the Virunga Alliance is working to kick-start a green economy in eastern Congo, for the benefit of its neighbouring communities.
(International Fund for Animal Welfare)
Maasai women in Kenya are deeply connected to their communities and land, making them key proponents to local conservation efforts. They have insider knowledge and unique perspectives to offer male ranger units, but have lacked opportunities to get involved on a professional level.
In 2019, our tenBoma wildlife security team created Team Lioness, selected for leadership, academic achievements, and integrity, the team of Maasai women are defying social norms and creating new opportunities for women.
Team Lioness aids the Olgulului Community Wildlife Rangers (OCWR) on the border of Tanzania and Kenya, protecting land that surrounds Amboseli National Park. The rangers serve as the first line of defense against the poaching and retaliatory killing of elephants, lions, giraffes, cheetahs, etc., traveling the land’s wildlife corridors. IFAW has rescued, treated and sheltered over 300,000 animals on land, sea, and air around the world in the past decade.
There are a range of corporate actors pushing to build the massive East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), which will displace communities, endanger wildlife and tip the world closer to catastrophic climate change.
French multinational oil company Total is the project’s main proponent, and stands to profit the most from the pipeline’s construction. Working alongside Total is another multinational corporation, the state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC).
Climate activists under the Stop EACOP coalition have been unrelenting in calling on financial institutions to distance themselves from the proposed pipeline, resulting in 24 commercial banks and 18 (re)insurers committing to not supporting the project.
The future of East Africa relies on building sustainable, diversified and inclusive economies – not by letting huge multinational corporations extract resources and keep the profit.
The whole world is waking up to the fact that we need to stop burning fossil fuels. Rather than betting its development on a dying industry, we need to recognize that East Africa’s economic strength comes from the region’s biodiversity, heritage and natural landscapes. Investing in renewable energy, tourism, small-scale agriculture, fishing and reforestation programs will provide far more jobs to local communities, a wider range of economic benefits for East Africa and a cleaner environment which will benefit the whole world. As the fossil fuel era comes to an end, it is time to do more than imagine a just and inclusive economy - it is time to start building it.
Sea Shepherd’s sole mission is to protect and conserve the world’s oceans and marine wildlife. We work to defend all marine wildlife, from whales and dolphins, to sharks and rays, to fish and krill, without exception.Our model of engagement provides unique, at sea resources to assist, serve, and support developing coastal and island governments in the protection of their sovereign waters against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.Sea Shepherd’s primary goal is to greatly enhance a government’s own capacity to patrol, monitor, and enforce their own laws.Over the past five years, we assisted law enforcers from our partner governments as they arrested dozens of vessels resulting in numerous successful prosecutions. These efforts reduced subsequent maritime crimes, and helped restore fish populations.During March 2021, five trawlers were arrested for illegal fishing as Sea Shepherd engaged in a new partnership with the government of Sierra Leone. During joint operations led by the government of Peru, specialized prosecutors on board the Sea Shepherd vessel Ocean Warrior encountered and apprehended multiple vessels fishing illegally in Peruvian waters. Gabon’s Minister of Fisheries participated in investigations led by Gabonese law enforcement on the Sea Shepherd vessel Bob Barker, and our Chairman Pritam Singh signed an agreement with the Government of Mexico to renew efforts to protect the critically endangered vaquita porpoise against the threats of illegal fishing. Liberian President Dr. George Manneh Weah awarded Sea Shepherd the highest military award given by the Ministry of National Defense and the Armed Forces of Liberia.Reskilling
Reskilling from creating the Capitalist Patriarchal Empire (from either the slave/zombie or the 'master' role)
to creating Archiarchy - the adulthood-initiation-centered nonmaterial-value radical-responsibility culture.
For example, supporting Vandana Shiva's work to reskilling widows of the farmers who commit suicide after their crops fail. It is understandably difficult to get accurate numbers about these suicides by drinking pesticide, hanging by the neck, or throwing themselves into wells, but some sources claim over 270,000 Indian farmers have committed suicide due to crop failure and debt since 1995.
Monsanto introduced glyphosphate laced Roundup to India in 1991, and GMO cotton seeds in 2002.
Women are learning organic farming techniques and bringing their farms back to life.
Similar reskilling is required by corporate employees after we dismantle their corporations.
In terms of reskilling, on occassion it is possible to re-purpose poachers to hunt poachers.
Kiva uses crowdfunded microloans as a force for good, creating a space where people can have one-to-one impact, and together, expand financial access for all.Kiva tenders microloans from as little as $5 between private lenders and private borrowers around the world.Local field partners vet borrowers and their projects.Since 2005, the Kiva global community has funded over $1.6 billion in loans.
Kiva borrowers have a 96% repayment rate.
The Kiva community spans 77 countries and 1.9 million lenders. Kiva is a 501(c)3 U.S. nonprofit based in San Francisco, with offices in Bangkok, Nairobi, Portland and staff around the globe.Kiva never takes interest or fees from lenders or borrowers. Kiva relies on donations, grants, and fees from certain lending partners to cover operational costs. This means, the more donations we receive, the more loans we can expedite.Legal Reinvention Force - Outlawing Ecocide
The Rule of Law of western civilization is exterminationg life on Earth at the fastest possible rate.
Anyone following the Rule of Law of western civilization is criminally insane.
Anyone enforcing the Rule of Law of western civilization has already forfeited their life.
A Global Rule of Life (with a Bill of Wrongs) is replacing the Rule of Law.
Aspects of applying the Global Rule of Life include radical rescission of Corporate Personhood in conjunction with immediately enacting the Death Sentence for Corporations by making Ecocide radically illegal. ('Ecocide' refers to damaging the environment and causing irreversible harm to ecosystems, which in turn fosters conditions for climate change and species extinction.)
Since the corporation is psychapathic, each corporation unconsciously promotes psychopaths and their psychopathic agenda.
The corporation is designed to avoid personal responsibility.
ALAOMAB serves the opposite purpose, namely, empowering individuals to take more and more authority and responsibility. Within meters of where you sit right now, most of what you see breaks the Bill of Wrongs of Archiarchy and demands rectification. Thousands of legal Teams are being unleashed to bring criminal institutions into disruptive litigation and pursue the benefactors to their private bank accounts.
Stopping Banks Destroying Climate
The world’s 60 biggest banks poured more than five and a half trillion dollars ($5,500,000,000,000) over 7 years into the fossil fuel industry, driving climate chaos that causes deadly local community impacts. We are forcing banks to cut off the flow of financing to any company expanding fossil fuels.
e.g. The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) is a proposed 900 mile (1,445 km) pipeline from Uganda to Tanzania.
Key companies: TotalEnergies from France and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC).
Key banks: SMBC, ICBC and Standard Bank (financial advisors).
To learn more, watch this new documentary and visit the #StopEACOP website and BankTrack's Dodgy Deal profile.The Oil and Gas Policy Tracker and Coal Policy Tool shows banks’ fossil fuel financing policies. Learn more at oilgaspolicytracker.org and coalpolicytool.org.
The Decarbonization Targets Tracker compares banks’ publicly stated commitments to achieve net zero. Learn more in this guide to the table.
This can all be stopped by changing a few laws...
Rainforest Action Network preserves forests, protects the climate, and upholds human rights by challenging corporate power and systemic injustice through frontline partnerships and strategic campaigns. We rescind corporate power by exposing institutional injustice in order to drive positive systemic change.
We use people power to change business as usual.
And we win.
Rainforest Action Network does whatever is necessary - not only what is considered 'politically feasible' - to preserve rainforests, protect the climate, and uphold human rights.
The future of Earth is at stake.
Stop Ecocide International is driving the global initiative to recognize ecocide as an international crime, listed in the Rome Statute alongside Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity. This will help humanity to deter destructive practices, protect vital ecosystems, and catalyze positive systems change.Because we use criminal law to help define what is morally acceptable, by outlawing mass damage and destruction to the natural world, we acknowledge the intrinsic value of the Earth and our part in the wider web of life. Making ecocide a crime is a key turning point enabling our legal framework to begin to actually reflect reality. Damage to ecosystems may still take place, but it will no longer be an accepted norm. By criminalizing this moral wrong, society at large no longer needs to accept ecocide.
China's Economic Hitmen
johnperkins.org/economichitmanbookThe first wave of economic corruption began when I (John Perkins) was getting started as an #economichitman in the 1970s. We focused on exploiting lower-income countries that had resources our corporations coveted, like oil. We convinced these countries to accept huge loans from the World Bank or one of its sister organizations and use the money to hire US companies to develop infrastructure projects in the countries. In the end, the countries could not repay the debt; so we demanded payment by allowing US companies to exploit their resources, without environmental or social regulations.The second wave took off after 9/11. Corruption at the top had become legitimized because corporate economic hitmen drafted the laws, and the politicians they financed passed them. Loyalty was to specific corporations rather than the USA. Corporations then passed laws that gave them special subsidies, grants, and tax breaks. This second economic hitman wave was highly successful at ripping off the citizen tax-payer.The third wave began when Xi Jinping became China’s president in 2013. China’s economic hitmen learned from the success and failures of the first and second waves. It's relatively easy for China’s economic hitmen to convince leaders in Asia and Africa that by adopting China’s model, their country will be able to build the infrastructure that connects it to a vast trading network. They've demonstrated it. In less than a decade, China’s global takeover became so broad and successful that today it is the largest trading partner with countries on every continent.And it is just beginning.Protecting the Protectors
Ex-special forces and sniper missions protect activists and defenders who are lately being assassinated by corporation-hired hitmen.
Thoughtware Upgrades
If present trends continue, the probable future for life on Earth will be defined by periods of substantial social, environmental, and economic disruption, if not complete collapse.
Humanity already possesses sufficient resources, technology, and know-how to reverse these trends. What is missing is the sense of urgency and the popular and political will to act.
Without concentrated human intervention, certain tipping points will be exceeded, making our present trajectory irreversible.You can upgrade your Standard Human Intelligence Thoughtware to navigate higher levels of awareness and responsibility in next culture, Archiarchy.
Bright Future Now can help you expand your capacity for love and creativity in the service of humanity and the earth. It can help you
- See yourself and the world with fresh eyes.
- Increase your capacity to make a difference.
- Connect with like-hearted people worldwide.
After 25 cohorts and over 350 people from 34 countries around the world, it’s clear that Bright Future Now is a unique, practical, transformational and surprisingly nourishing fast-track to a bright future – for you and for the world. To learn more, please look at the Bright Future Now Overview.
The Bright Future program was developed by Dr. Robert Gilman. Trained as an astrophysicist, Robert decided in the mid-1970s that “the stars could wait, but the planet couldn’t.” He then turned his attention to the study of global sustainability, futures research, and strategies for positive cultural change.
His on-the-ground sustainability efforts have included co-founding the Context Institute, creating and editing the award-winning In Context, A Quarterly of Humane Sustainable Culture, co-founding the Global Ecovillage Network, doing Citizen Diplomacy with the former USSR, serving as a City Councilman in Langley, Washington, and working with the American Institute of Architects on issues regarding sustainability and the built environment. You’ll be working with Robert and other team members during the course and in the Bright Future Network.
Pachamama Alliance
We are generating a Critical Mass of Conscious Commitment.
With roots deep in the Amazon rainforest, our programs integrate Indigenous wisdom with modern knowledge to support personal, and collective, transformation that is the catalyst to bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet.
Our unique contribution is to generate and engage people everywhere in transformational conversations and experiences consistent with this purpose. We weave together Indigenous and modern worldviews such that human beings are in touch with their dignity and are ennobled by the magnificence, mystery, and opportunity of what is possible for humanity at this time.
The Pachamama Game Changer Intensive is a powerful 8-week training program where people come together online to explore who we need to be and what we need to do in order to make a difference in the world.
In addition to the coursework—videos, readings, forum discussions, and exercises—participants have the opportunity to meet weekly with fellow participants in guided discussions to explore their role and next steps as game changers in the world.
Possibility Management
howtoplay.mystrikingly.com StartOver.xyzPossibility Management is thoughtware for Next Culture.
Modern culture uses Standard Human Intelligence Thoughtware, for example, hierarchical power structure, easily hijacked by phychopathic personalities. Modern culture has eliminated authentic adulthood initiatory processes, promoting uninitiated adolescent patriarchs to positions of power. Modern culture is exterminating life on Earth at the fastest possible rate.
Through skill-development, thoughtware upgrades, emotional healing processes, and initiations, Possibility Management unleashes next culture - Archiarchy - the regenerative, initiation-centered, nonmaterial-value human culture naturally emerging around the world now that Matriarchy and Patriarchy have run their course.
Archiarchy comes to life through archetypally initiated adult women creatively collaborating with archetypally initiated adult men.
Once you can personally generate the culture of Archiarchy, you can carry it with you wherever you go. It is your birthright and your responsibility to consciously live in the culture you would love to live in. If that culture does not already exist, then it is your calling to create that culture, and your pleasure to share it with anyone interested.
Gaia Education - EDE
gaiaeducation.orgGaia Education empowers students across the globe to see the interconnectedness of life. Through the month-long live-in Ecovillage Design Education (EDE), we teach the knowledge and skills needed to design truly regenerative communities which thrive within planetary boundaries.
Gaia Education's online programme 'Design for Sustainability' provides students with whole systems design skills, analytical abilities, and a wide range of methods and practical tools to support the redesign of the human presence on Earth – one local community and bioregion at a time.
We offer online courses, face-to-face courses, webinars, Masterclasses, and international project-based learning.
We believe that education is the biggest tool in the urgent transition to a more regenerative future, reversing the climate crisis. Come and join the Gaia Community!
