The African Green Wall
The Great Green Wall is an African-led movement with an epic ambition to grow an 8,000km natural wonder of the world across the entire width of Africa.
A decade in and roughly 15% underway, the initiative is already bringing life back to Africa’s degraded landscapes at an unprecedented scale, providing food security, jobs and a reason to stay for the millions who live along its path.
The Wall promises to be a compelling solution to the many urgent threats not only facing the African Continent, but the global community as a whole – notably climate change, drought, famine, conflict and migration.
Once complete, the Great Green Wall will be the largest living structure on the planet, 3 times the size of the Great Barrier Reef.
Food Sovereignty
Food Sovereignty is a grassroots movement growing around the world to protect indigenous plant genetics, production and distribution. Currently corporations and market institutions try to bar indigenous people from saving and sharing their traditional seeds. We need an era where the people who have seed genetics, that are suited to their geographic area and culturally appreciated, are prioritized. If a corporate mega farm puts in Genetically Modified Seeds and pours poison into the earth, the indigenous farmers should be compensated, not sued if the GMOs escape the corporate farm and infect their crops. Indigenous plants have been developed by generations of farmers to be best suited for local climates and therefor most likely to thrive, and survive as the climate changes. (Author: Anastasia Nelson)
Nightingales Don't Eat Bears
Russia portrays its invasion and attack on Ukraine as a defense against neo-Nazis. Seriously? Are bears really threatened by nightingales, or is it the other way around? Everything in this work is symbolic; please provide your own interpretation. (Author: Artist Rich Sheaffer)
World Peace
It seems to me that the real problem with the failure of World Peace is the weapons manufacturing business. The
money involved is driving wars and gun violence everywhere. Manufacturers appear to be cheering on the latest War between Russia and Ukraine. They can't send enough weapons to both sides fast enough. And of course, here in the US, there are mass shootings about every other day. Maybe the Peace Movement should zero in on the manufacturers of weapons?(Author - Phil Dynan, speaker at the Commonwealth Club)