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Dec 6th, 2024 |
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By Geoffrey Holland and Suzanne York. Geoffrey Holland is a journalist focused on gender rights and the human relationship with nature. He is also the recent author of Virtue, a contemporary novel that entertains the reader with a story that showcases a feminist anthropologist, who finds love and inspires others with her commitment to
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Tags: Earth Systems Treaty, planetary health, Riane Eisler, Virtue, women's rights
Sep 14th, 2021 |
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By Geoffrey Holland, writer for Transition Earth. To move forward we must recognize that in the midst of a magnificent diversity of cultures and life forms, we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny ~ The Earth Charter The idea for the Earth Charter first emerged in 1987, and
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Tags: Earth Charter, Earth Pledge, environmental rights, planetary health, sustainability
Feb 11th, 2021 |
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By Suzanne York. It was a blip for most news outlets, but a recent report out of the UK – led by Cambridge economist Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta – underscores the global biodiversity crisis and humans relationship with Nature. The fact that it comes from an economic viewpoint has its pros and cons, but is
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Tags: alternative economic indicators, biodiversity, biodiversity loss, Family Planning, planetary health, Population Growth, The Dasgupta Review
Jan 27th, 2021 |
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By Suzanne York. The threats to the planet by human actions have been studied and reported for decades. Almost every day now sees reports of the latest research on the fraying of planetary health, for nature and for humans. We can’t plead ignorance at destroying the Earth. One such study, released earlier this month, addresses the
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Tags: biodiversity loss, Climate Change, planetary health, Population Growth
Sep 7th, 2020 |
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By Geoffrey Holland, guest writer for Transition Earth. Take in the big picture. It’s a story that is apocalyptic in scale, driven by arch villains defending the old order, against protagonists determined to forge a life-affirming, and sustainable transformation for humanity. It’s about survival on an epic, planetary scale. It is our story. We are
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Tags: Anthropocene, human rights, planetary health
Aug 9th, 2020 |
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By Geoffrey Holland, guest writer for Transition Earth. Over the years, I have tried to be a student of good planetary stewardship. The ultimate prize is a humanity that functions in harmony with nature. This is what comes when what we take from the biosphere balances out with what we give back to it. In
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Tags: Climate Change, overconsumption, planetary health, rights of nature
Jul 10th, 2020 |
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By Suzanne York. The news comes fast and furious these days. Breaking stories, shocking tweets, and crucial studies all demand our attention. Climate change, pandemics, environmental degradation, racial injustice, inequality, human rights violations – each of these alone needs to be understood and thoroughly addressed. Beyond that though, it’s also important, maybe more than ever,
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Tags: planetary health, reproductive health, tipping points, World Population Day
Sep 4th, 2019 |
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By Geoffrey Holland, guest writer for Transition Earth. Have you noticed? For the last several thousands of years, virtually every person historically remembered – good, bad, or ugly – is of the male gender. The record shows that for all that time, human life on Earth has been dominated by men. The Bible, the Koran,
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Tags: Climate Change, gender, male domination, planetary health, Population Growth, Riane Eisler, women's rights
Aug 1st, 2019 |
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By Geoffrey Holland, guest writer for Transition Earth. James Cameron’s epic 2009 movie Avatar is set in the 22nd century on the distant moon Pandora. At its core, Avataris a good vs. evil conflict between the indigenous Na’vi, who live in harmony with their living world, and an intrusive, technically superior force of human profiteers, who have
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Tags: collective responsibility, corporate power, ecological collapse, media, planetary health
Jul 1st, 2019 |
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By Geoffrey Holland, guest writer for Transition Earth. [Editor’s Note: This article was originally published with The Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere] A thoughtful examination of human history, boils down, more or less, to two steps forward, one step back. There is no written record of our beginnings. For most of our history,
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Tags: Anthropocene, extinction, planetary health, Population Growth, sustainability