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Rhythm of Reconnection

Meet Mashudu, who is reconnecting knowledgeable elders with young people to enliven their ancestral knowledge, culture and confidence. A new story of decolonisation from the African Earth Jurisprudence Collective, told by Mashudu Takalani of EarthLore Foundation, supported by The Gaia Foundation READ MASHUDU’S STORY: https://express.adobe.com/page/U3ZnkMdFQHrt1/ Working for EarthLore Foundation,…

Respecting the rights of nature is the only way out of climate chaos and biodiversity collapse

Earth Jurisprudence is a foundational systemic alternative for transformation towards healing our relationship with Mother Earth – an essential foundation from which to respond to the climate, ecological and social justice crises. By Method Gundidza With the EarthLore Foundation team, I have the privilege of working with communities in the South…

Decolonising stories – New animations illuminate revival of Indigenous African communities and culture

We are delighted to announce the release of three new animations produced by Gaia and other founding members of the African Earth Jurisprudence Collective- SALT in Kenya, AFRICE in Uganda, and EarthLore in Zimbabwe and South Africa – and animator Tim Hawkins. The animations explore the revival of land,…

Earth Jurisprudence Update July 2021

Earth-centred News and Inspiration This newsletter is published by the team at the Gaia Foundation Greetings Earth Jurisprudence Advocates and Allies, Thomas Berry understood that as humans of the twenty-first century our ‘Great Work’ is to transition from human-centred to Earth-centred consciousness and culture – safeguarded over millennia by diverse…

Custodians of Life- Reviving Culture and Nature in Uganda’s Great Lakes

Custodians of Life- Reviving Culture and Nature in Uganda’s Great Lakes, a new film from The Gaia Foundation, ANARDE, NAPE and AFRICE[1], explores how the Bagungu Indigenous People are reviving their Earth-centred culture and the diversity and health of critical ecosystems. Continue reading

What is Earth Jurisprudence?

“We are born into and embedded in the ways and cycles of life and their laws.”

Gaia’s Director, Liz Hosken, explains what Earth Jurisprudence is, as part of a week of communications marking the 10th Anniversary of cultural historian and philosopher Thomas Berry, who coined the term.

Global voices in Quito, calling for the Rights of Nature

Within sight of the snow-capped Cotopaxi volcano, in Ecuador’s capital city of Quito, Gaia joined activists, academics, indigenous leaders and students, for an historic International Rights of Nature Symposium, 27th-28th September. We were joined by Method Gundidza, from our South African partner organisation, EarthLore The symposium, hosted by the Global…

African perspectives on Earth Jurisprudence, at the UN General Assembly dialogue on Harmony with Nature

News Flash from the Earth Jurisprudence Network We are delighted to share that news that Method Gundidza, from Zimbabwe, will be speaking at the 8th Interactive Dialogue of the UN General Assembly on Harmony with Nature, this Monday 23rd April. Method joins a group of panelists actively engaged in promoting an Earth-centred and non-anthropocentric…

‘Going back to my Roots’, a personal story by Mashudu Takalani

Mashudu is a young woman of twenty-eight (28) from the Venda culture in Limpopo Province, north eastern South Africa. She works with EarthLore, a Southern African organisation, accompanying communities in their path to revive their indigenous knowledge and practices. Here Mashudu tells the story of her journey so far, revealing…

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