🔥🛢️ The young plaintiffs filing a lawsuit in the #MecherosCase publicly challenge the Ecuadorian Minister of Energy and Mines! 🌍🌿
🌍🌳 In 2021, after years of struggle, nine girls won a historic ruling ordering the phasing out of all oil industry gas flares in Ecuador. However, just one year away from the final compliance deadline, NOTHING HAS BEEN IMPLEMENTED! The organization representing those affected, @udapt_oficial, as well as the plaintiffs and their communities, are denouncing the serious impacts on human health and biodiversity, with several of the plaintiffs’ family members suffering from cancer. In provinces such as #Orellana and #Sucumbíos, the incidence of this disease far exceeds the national average and largely affects women. In addition, gas flares are responsible for economic losses of up to $500 million per year in the country.
✊🏾🪧 On Wednesday #February21, four of the plaintiffs confronted the 🇪🇨 Minister of Energy and Mines, @andreaarrobopena, during the Biodiversity Commission’s second session in Ecuador’s Congress. Despite the Minister’s claims of having extinguished two flares, @udapt_oficial and the “Eliminate the Flares” Collective report that, not only has the sentence NOT been complied with, but that the number of gas flares actually increased between 2022 and 2024 from 447 to 486.
🔍 What happened to #EnvironmentalJustice? What do you think about the struggle of these young women? See you in the comments! ❤️🔥🌎💚
On this Valentines Day I want to invite you send love and gratitude to our SOIL ❤️ – the source of our food, nourishment and life itself. This video is in honor of the work of @kisstheground and all those working to rebuild and regenerate our soil. There are hundreds of ways to Kiss the Ground, through the link in my bio you can donate or find other ways to support.
$10 helps transition 1 acre of land to regenerative land management practices. Thank you for inviting me to be a part of this gorgeous homage to this incredible and noble work @evanharrisonsurfs 🙏🏽🌱
I arrived at @finca_victoria with a bruised heart, burned out spirit and my body struggling to fight off inflammation.. I left 10 days later, heart healed with crystalline clarity and my body and spirit strong 💪🏽 . I’ve wanted to do a Panchakarma for years but this year I finally invested in myself to start the year off right. I know it’s a privilege to take time like this to recharge and rest but I do it so I can continue to work for a world where self-care and earth stewardship are our birthright and available for all. 🌍 🌸 Thank you to the beautiful team at @finca_victoria and host @sylvia_demarco for creating this powerful container for healing and renewal. And thank you to the island of Boriken (Puerto Rico) and Vieques for the warm welcome. The healing energy is so strong here thanks to the abundance lovingly stewarded by the Taino ancestors. So much gratitude to be able to come here and find myself restored and to whole again. @finca_victoria you are a dream come true 🌸🙏🏽
#SomosGuardianes ‘We Are Guardians’ acaba de estrenarse en Netflix en América Latina y pronto estará disponible en todo el mundo. ✨️ Amigos do Brasil, assistam a este filme agora! 📣 Amigos en toda América del Sur, desde México hasta Chile, ¡vean esta película ahora! Revelando la intrincada trama de la lucha por la supervivencia de la Amazonía, esta poderosa película no solo ilumina las narrativas de los guardianes y líderes indígenas, sino que también explora de manera empática las perspectivas de madereros y agricultores. Un llamado convincente a la acción, destaca la urgencia de mejorar la transparencia y trazabilidad en las cadenas de producción, cruciales para aliviar la presión sobre la selva y sus habitantes.
Solidarízate con el pueblo de la Amazonía. Mira Somos Guardianes y sigue a @weareguardiansfilm para obtener actualizaciones sobre cuándo estará disponible para transmisión fuera de América Latina. El momento de actuar es ahora. ¡La selva nos necesita! ¡Todos somos guardianes! 🌎 #AmazonRainforest #somostodosguardiões
#SomosGuardiões acabou de estrear na Netflix na América Latina e em breve estará disponível em todo o mundo. ✨️ Amigos do Brasil, assistam a este filme agora! 📣 Amigos en toda América del Sur, desde México hasta Chile, ¡vean esta película ahora! Revelando a intrincada tapeçaria da luta pela sobrevivência da Amazônia, este poderoso filme não apenas ilumina as narrativas dos guardiões e líderes indígenas, mas também explora de maneira empática as perspectivas de madeireiros e agricultores. Um apelo envolvente à ação, ele destaca a urgência de aprimorar a transparência e a rastreabilidade nas cadeias de produção, cruciais para aliviar a pressão sobre a floresta e seus habitantes.
Solidarize-se com o povo da Amazônia. Assista a Somos Guardiões e siga @weareguardiansfilm para atualizações sobre quando estará disponível para transmissão fora da América Latina. O momento de agir é agora. A floresta precisa de nós! Todos nós somos guardiões! 🌎 #AmazonRainforest #somostodosguardiões
Feeling so much gratitude and love for my human and more than human family. I’m usually a massive Xmas grinch but this year I got swept away in the love, laughter, kindness and loving care of these beautiful beings. The island of Boriken (Puerto Rico) is always so good to me and after months of isolation in the Amazon it’s so good to be living in community once more. I love waking up and see these faces first thing in the morning and before I go to sleep at night. So much love to you @indiecitadorada , @yellowcrystalseed, @gbsk, @ale.melchor, Arian and Mishki ❤️ luscious linen pieces by @estiloemporio 🌹
Feeling so much gratitude and love for my human and more than human family. I’m usually a massive Xmas grinch but this year I got swept away in the love, laughter, kindness and loving care of these beautiful beings. The island of Boriken (Puerto Rico) is always so good to me and after months of isolation in the Amazon it’s so good to be living in community once more. I love waking up and see these faces first thing in the morning and before I go to sleep at night. So much love to you @indiecitadorada , @yellowcrystalseed, @gbsk, @ale.melchor, Arian and Mishki ❤️ luscious linen pieces by @estiloemporio 🌹
Feeling so much gratitude and love for my human and more than human family. I’m usually a massive Xmas grinch but this year I got swept away in the love, laughter, kindness and loving care of these beautiful beings. The island of Boriken (Puerto Rico) is always so good to me and after months of isolation in the Amazon it’s so good to be living in community once more. I love waking up and see these faces first thing in the morning and before I go to sleep at night. So much love to you @indiecitadorada , @yellowcrystalseed, @gbsk, @ale.melchor, Arian and Mishki ❤️ luscious linen pieces by @estiloemporio 🌹
Feeling so much gratitude and love for my human and more than human family. I’m usually a massive Xmas grinch but this year I got swept away in the love, laughter, kindness and loving care of these beautiful beings. The island of Boriken (Puerto Rico) is always so good to me and after months of isolation in the Amazon it’s so good to be living in community once more. I love waking up and see these faces first thing in the morning and before I go to sleep at night. So much love to you @indiecitadorada , @yellowcrystalseed, @gbsk, @ale.melchor, Arian and Mishki ❤️ luscious linen pieces by @estiloemporio 🌹
Feeling so much gratitude and love for my human and more than human family. I’m usually a massive Xmas grinch but this year I got swept away in the love, laughter, kindness and loving care of these beautiful beings. The island of Boriken (Puerto Rico) is always so good to me and after months of isolation in the Amazon it’s so good to be living in community once more. I love waking up and see these faces first thing in the morning and before I go to sleep at night. So much love to you @indiecitadorada , @yellowcrystalseed, @gbsk, @ale.melchor, Arian and Mishki ❤️ luscious linen pieces by @estiloemporio 🌹
Feeling so much gratitude and love for my human and more than human family. I’m usually a massive Xmas grinch but this year I got swept away in the love, laughter, kindness and loving care of these beautiful beings. The island of Boriken (Puerto Rico) is always so good to me and after months of isolation in the Amazon it’s so good to be living in community once more. I love waking up and see these faces first thing in the morning and before I go to sleep at night. So much love to you @indiecitadorada , @yellowcrystalseed, @gbsk, @ale.melchor, Arian and Mishki ❤️ luscious linen pieces by @estiloemporio 🌹
Feeling so much gratitude and love for my human and more than human family. I’m usually a massive Xmas grinch but this year I got swept away in the love, laughter, kindness and loving care of these beautiful beings. The island of Boriken (Puerto Rico) is always so good to me and after months of isolation in the Amazon it’s so good to be living in community once more. I love waking up and see these faces first thing in the morning and before I go to sleep at night. So much love to you @indiecitadorada , @yellowcrystalseed, @gbsk, @ale.melchor, Arian and Mishki ❤️ luscious linen pieces by @estiloemporio 🌹
Feeling so much gratitude and love for my human and more than human family. I’m usually a massive Xmas grinch but this year I got swept away in the love, laughter, kindness and loving care of these beautiful beings. The island of Boriken (Puerto Rico) is always so good to me and after months of isolation in the Amazon it’s so good to be living in community once more. I love waking up and see these faces first thing in the morning and before I go to sleep at night. So much love to you @indiecitadorada , @yellowcrystalseed, @gbsk, @ale.melchor, Arian and Mishki ❤️ luscious linen pieces by @estiloemporio 🌹
Feeling so much gratitude and love for my human and more than human family. I’m usually a massive Xmas grinch but this year I got swept away in the love, laughter, kindness and loving care of these beautiful beings. The island of Boriken (Puerto Rico) is always so good to me and after months of isolation in the Amazon it’s so good to be living in community once more. I love waking up and see these faces first thing in the morning and before I go to sleep at night. So much love to you @indiecitadorada , @yellowcrystalseed, @gbsk, @ale.melchor, Arian and Mishki ❤️ luscious linen pieces by @estiloemporio 🌹
Why are Indigenous leaders, like the fearless @alessandra_korap so angry at @cargill?
Cargill,Inc, owned by the Cargill-MacMillan family is one of the main drivers behind the destruction of the world’s forests and other critical ecosystems.
Recently they’ve pledged to change their ways but they haven’t withdrawn support for the Ferragrão – a proposed railway mega-project that would cut 600 miles through the heart of the Amazon and the land of the Munduruku, Panará, Kayapó, and Xingu peoples.
Cargill has a long history of making bold public policy commitments and then not keeping them.
We hope this time will be different. Until then, those of us in the West, the largest consumers of @cargill products, must hold them accountable until they make good on their promise. Post brought to you by @stand.earth and @nicorichat
I’ve kept a journal on and off from very young age but I never knew if I was “doing it right.” I know it’s a personal practice not meant for sharing but I always had this nagging feeling that my current style was not making me a better writer or helping me expand my creativity. Enter @nina_karnikowski to the rescue with this brilliant concept of journaling prompt cards- designed by a writer with budding writers in mind. The cards have helped me on a creative but also on a personal and emotional level. After pulling this particular card on despair I was able to channel compassion not just for the victims of violence around the world, but for those who support violent policies out fear. Acknowledging my despair helped me have compassion for the the fear that is the driving force of violence – bringing me some catharsis during these heavy times. 🙏🏽🌟 Full disclosure @nina_karnikowski and I have been best friends for over 20 years but even if I didn’t know and love her deeply I would recommend these cards to anyone wanting to take their creativity to the next level. After using them a few months of use I can feel my right brain expanding as I sit down to write and the ritual around picking a card is the perfect invitation to commit to this daily practice. I know Christmas has passed but I highly recommend getting these as a gift to your own inner artist. Link in my bio 🙂
Song : Heart Takes Flight: Awaré Ram Dass
Blouse: @laspollerasdeagustina
This year was a masterclass in Respect. For the Waters. For the more-than human beings. For the cultures and traditions of Earths Guardians. For the Amazon rainforest and the Apus of the Andes. Respect for my ancestors who knew the way… I am so grateful for the opportunity to live in both these ancestral biomes this year and learn about their interdependence firsthand and so intimately. I am coming out of this initiation charged from Earths most potent energetic portals, finding them oozing with sensuality and abundance. I’m ready to channel all of it into my work with the urgency of someone who now truly understands what is at stake. Thank you to all the human and more than human beings who supported me this year, with particular gratitude for the monkeys, the hummingbirds and river dolphins who swam with me on my last day…. I dedicate this all to you. 🐬 🌸 🌳
We have sacrificed so much (nature, peace, community) in the name of “modernity” that it took a visit to @quilombomumbuca with @rotanativa to rekindle my dream of reviving a slower life -one that beats with the rhythm of the Earth, where water is clean and food is fresh and local… located in the Ecological Park of Jalapão, in the state of Tocantins, Brazil – you could choose to visit this place with guides from the nearest city, who exploit the land and it’s people for a quick tourism buck… OR, you could do as I did and stay in the Quilombola community itself and live amongst the locals, learning how they have managed to sustain these ecosystems alongside resilient food systems over hundreds of years. Supporting projects like @rotanativa help strengthen these local economies so that this paradise doesn’t turn into another monoculture wasteland like many other parts of Tocantins and Brazil. And if you can’t visit, please consider how you can replicate these kind of local food and economic systems where you live. I’m the first one to admit I don’t currently live in this way… but it’s the dream I’m actively working towards. Will you join me? If you are interested check out @localfutures_ for more info on how to start this urgent transition from global to local 🌍🌱 music by @hermanosgutierrez
Have you ever admired someone from a distance so much – that you put them on your vision board so you could manifest being their friend and collaborator? That special person in my life is @aliceaedy and she just crossed a big birthday threshold today… I am so in awe of her incredible instincts as a story-teller, her fearlessness, unflinching journalistic integrity, sensual dance moves and contagious joy. It’s one of my life’s greatest pleasures to make her laugh – and I know it’s her bday but I think it’s worth saying how loved, seen, appreciated I feel in her presence. She brings out the best in all those around her.. which is such a beautiful quality in a friend. 🫠 I just adore you @aliceaedy and it’s an honor to be in your orbit as a friend and fellow story-teller.. 🪐 I look forward to seeing you grow in even more radiance and wisdom over this next decade 🌹
(credit: @sumaumajournalism ) When @lulaoficial was voted in, many of us had high hopes for his presidency. Anyone would be better than Bolsonaro – we told ourselves. We looked passed Lula’s past sins against indigenous people and the environment like the Belo Monte Dam – hoping that he had heeded science’s warning that Brazil’s Amazon rainforest and other critical ecosystems were under threat and would not survive an increase in global temperatures… and at first it seemed he had. He reduced deforestation, appointed indigenous leaders, he only demarcated 6 territories – but it was a start. Until this. Lulas’s cynical decision to join OPEC and auction off hundreds of oil blocks the day COP ended is a slap in the face to anyone who believed he was serious about preserving Brazil’s critical ecosystems and halting rising temperatures . The pristine coral reefs and other places Lula has just sold to multinational oil companies will make Brazil the 4th biggest exporter of oil in the world! This is absurd and frankly disgusting from a man who ran on climate leadership. @lulaoficial looks like a coward next to Colombia’s @gustavopetrourrego who made his country the first in Latin America to sign the @fossilfueltreaty . Lula has but almost lost all credibility with those fighting to keep our waters clean, our waters in tact and biodiversity thriving. We must stay vigilant and critical even of the people we once supported. It remains to be seen if there are any leaders in Brazil who have the ecological literacy and courage to lead this rich, diverse region into a new, truly abundant future, one that does not rely on fossil fuel extraction in some of the most biodiverse places in the world. Follow @sumaumajournalism @sumaumajornalismo for more information in English and Portuguese
Basel recap: 1. Forest and mangroves (and the ocean and soil) are the only “carbon capture technologies” that interest me.
2. I am nothing without my community of fiercely compassionate, sensual and intelligent beauties. There is no one I would rather gently dismantle the patriarchy with.
3. Because the New World we are building must be rooted in joy, I made it my priority to stay up past my bedtime and have a good boogie to @rampa_keinemusik
4. From Sarayaku to South Beach I love you so much @ninagualinga 💋🌴
5. Amazing biodegradable raffia dress by @madeforawoman 💃🏽
Basel recap: 1. Forest and mangroves (and the ocean and soil) are the only “carbon capture technologies” that interest me.
2. I am nothing without my community of fiercely compassionate, sensual and intelligent beauties. There is no one I would rather gently dismantle the patriarchy with.
3. Because the New World we are building must be rooted in joy, I made it my priority to stay up past my bedtime and have a good boogie to @rampa_keinemusik
4. From Sarayaku to South Beach I love you so much @ninagualinga 💋🌴
5. Amazing biodegradable raffia dress by @madeforawoman 💃🏽
Basel recap: 1. Forest and mangroves (and the ocean and soil) are the only “carbon capture technologies” that interest me.
2. I am nothing without my community of fiercely compassionate, sensual and intelligent beauties. There is no one I would rather gently dismantle the patriarchy with.
3. Because the New World we are building must be rooted in joy, I made it my priority to stay up past my bedtime and have a good boogie to @rampa_keinemusik
4. From Sarayaku to South Beach I love you so much @ninagualinga 💋🌴
5. Amazing biodegradable raffia dress by @madeforawoman 💃🏽
Basel recap: 1. Forest and mangroves (and the ocean and soil) are the only “carbon capture technologies” that interest me.
2. I am nothing without my community of fiercely compassionate, sensual and intelligent beauties. There is no one I would rather gently dismantle the patriarchy with.
3. Because the New World we are building must be rooted in joy, I made it my priority to stay up past my bedtime and have a good boogie to @rampa_keinemusik
4. From Sarayaku to South Beach I love you so much @ninagualinga 💋🌴
5. Amazing biodegradable raffia dress by @madeforawoman 💃🏽
Basel recap: 1. Forest and mangroves (and the ocean and soil) are the only “carbon capture technologies” that interest me.
2. I am nothing without my community of fiercely compassionate, sensual and intelligent beauties. There is no one I would rather gently dismantle the patriarchy with.
3. Because the New World we are building must be rooted in joy, I made it my priority to stay up past my bedtime and have a good boogie to @rampa_keinemusik
4. From Sarayaku to South Beach I love you so much @ninagualinga 💋🌴
5. Amazing biodegradable raffia dress by @madeforawoman 💃🏽