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New Moon Updates for June 2010
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Pachamama Nearing Goal
for $1 Million Challenge Grant
Thanks to your help, the Pachamama Alliance is nearly three-quarters of the way to our goal of $1 million in new revenue towards our $1 million Challenge Grant. Your support has led the way, and we are so grateful for your partnership and participation. If you would like to help us get over the top, please contribute now, and have your donation matched dollar for dollar. If this is the first you have heard of this amazing news, please read about the story below.
Early this year, The Pachamama Alliance received a momentous challenge grant in the amount of $1 million from an anonymous donor who sees the profound importance of The Pachamama Alliance mission and the great impact of the work we are doing all over the world. This challenge grant presents an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate the work of the Pachamama Alliance. In order to receive the full $1 million dollars we need to match those funds by raising an additional $1 million dollars.
This challenge grant is an exceptional acknowledgment of the leadership that The Pachamama Alliance and its dedicated community of donor-activists are providing in the world. It is also an extraordinary invitation to expand this leadership — an opportunity for all of us to act boldly and with urgency to address the most pressing issues of our time by inviting ourselves and others to rise to this challenge with a financial contribution — all gifts will be matched dollar for dollar up to $1 million dollars.
If you would like to make an additional gift to
help meet this challenge, please click here.
It is through the commitment of
each and every donor, facilitator, volunteer, and supporter over the
years that brought The Pachamama Alliance to this place of recognition,
and continues to bring forth this work. Thank you for your partnership.
This
challenge grant and your continued support allow The Pachamama Alliance
to enact our key strategic initiatives for 2010:
• Awakening the
Dreamer:
Dramatic acceleration of waking people up to the challenges and
opportunities before us through the Awakening the Dreamer Initiative,
with a focus on youth and people of all generations throughout the
globe.
• FOUR YEARS. GO.:
Linking together individuals and organizations to
generate demonstrable action and a structure for achieving it through
the continued roll out of this collaborative campaign, FOUR YEARS. GO.
•
Rainforest
protection:Continuing our
precedent-setting work in rainforest and cultural preservation with
indigenous partners throughout the Amazon basin, as well as expanding
Rights for Nature into constitutions through the Andean Community of
Nations.
The ATD Program will be breaking more new ground when it launches its message in a book later this year. We're inviting you to lend your creative skills to the book in a variety of ways.
Imagine a book which causes a breakthrough in the credibility of the Awakening the Dreamer message, in its visibility and sphere of influence, and which makes it possible to reach currently untapped populations. Imagine a book that becomes an essential companion for people as they become active as change agents bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on Earth. And now imagine that the book might contain your very own illustration, story or poem.
The book will be based on the messages and flow that we know and love from the Awakening the Dreamer Symposium. And yet, to create the same transformational impact with the printed page provides a fresh challenge for us. Part of our response is to weave into the book pictures, art work, poems and stories from our facilitators, donors and friends everywhere. These may be stories from your own Symposiums, or the tale of your own relationship with Awakening the Dreamer. It could be that you know the perfect poem or quotation to illustrate a key concept or that you have the talent to illustrate some aspect of the message.
There is still time to offer submissions. Our deadline is the end of June, and the submission details are at this webpage. Please send your submissions, ideas or questions to us at book@pachamama.org. Then, watch for news of the book's publication by year end!
The Complementary Currency Program
 Fundación Pachamama and the Central Bank of Ecuador jointly organized a workshop on complementary currency systems that was held on June 3 and 4 in the headquarters of the Central Bank in Quito. Ultimately the goal is to develop new economic models for rural development including new exchange networks and alternative, complementary currency systems, which will help people in Ecuador get access to credit and promote local production, consumption and trade.
The workshop, called “Systems of Alternative Pay and Means of Complementary Pay,” was held to strengthen the conceptual understanding of the diverse methods of complementary currency systems and the key elements for implementing a system on a national level. In addition, the workshop aimed to explain the workings of a successful model developed in Uruguay (called C3U), and the advantages of creating and applying this system. Finally, the workshop aspired to establish work links between administrative organizations and Uruguay project architects with the Central Bank of Ecuador and Fundación Pachamama.
The first day was a planning meeting with personnel of the Central Bank; Javier Félix, advisor from Fundación Pachamama, and the invited participants from Uruguay; Fernando Cetrulo from Foundation STRO Uruguay and Enrique Baraibar, from the Direction of Development Projects of the Uruguayan Presidency. The workshop began with various presentations from the different projects of the Central Bank, discussing alternatives to economic policies with complementary payment means and compensation systems, and the C3U model. Conceptual input was given to widen the vision of those charged with the diverse projects of the Central Bank, based on the experience of peers from Uruguay.
On the second day, the workshop was opened to the public, including members from the Ecuadorian State, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, directors of Savings and Credit Cooperatives, and other organizations related to the Solidarity Economy, and university students studying economics in Quito.
The workshop achieved the planned objectives and culminated with the signature of a cooperation agreement between the Central Bank of Ecuador, Fundación Pachamama, the STRO Foundation, and the Direction of Development Projects of the Uruguayan Presidency, recognizing the importance of the development of alternative currency methods for the participating institutions. This agreement lays the groundwork for cooperation between all the participants for implementing alternative currency methods that benefit an improved distribution of wealth, employment generation, economic stability, and social development for Latin American countries.
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Facilitator
Trainings
The
Pachamama Alliance's Awakening the Dreamer Program makes available
Facilitator Trainings around the world for people who have the desire
and commitment to deliver the Symposium in their own communities and
beyond. For more information on upcoming Trainings, please click here…
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Summer Celebration 2010 We have had to postpone the celebration due to unforeseen conflicts until 2011. We thank you so much for your interest in the celebration and The Pachamama Alliance, and look forward to continuing to partner with you.
Our wonderful raffle is still going forward. The Grand Prize is a Trip for one to the Rain Forest in Ecuador, and there are a number of other prizes such as spa treatments, massage, rock climbing lessons, gift certificates to restaurants, and much, much more. The drawing will be held at our Annual Luncheon on November 17th and it is not necessary to be present to win. Please visit http://pachamamaraffle.eventbrite.com/ to learn more or to purchase tickets.
We will have our celebration next year to acknowledge our donors, volunteers and facilitators for their contributions in bringing forth a socially just, environmentally sustainable, and spiritually fulfilling human presence on this planet.
We want to thank you for your support for The Pachamama Alliance and hope you will join us at this year's Luncheon, and at the Celebration event next year.
Living the New Story: Cosmology, Justice,
Poetry, and the Planet with Drew Dellinger
WHEN: July 9-11
WHERE: Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, US
"The
universe story is the divine story, the human story, the story of the
trees, the story of the rivers, of the stars, the planets, everything." — Thomas Berry
A new planetary
movement is unfolding at the confluence where ecology, justice, and
cosmology meet. At the heart of this emerging global movement is a
vision of the world as sacred and connected. This workshop engages
issues of cosmology—our worldview or cultural story—as well as social
justice, ecology, and art. We will stretch our minds around the
awe-inspiring thirteen-billion-year history of the universe, and the
current movements for global justice and earth democracy. Additionally,
we'll discover the poetic cosmos within us and around us. How can we
bring forth our creativity in service of the planet, the people, and the
future of all species? Together we can dream ourselves a new global
story. The future is a poem inside our pen.
Learn more and RSVP.
Register: www.esalen.org
or (831) 667-3005
www.drewdellinger.org
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NEW MOON ACTIONChange the World: Go Organic  As you look around at the environmental crisis enveloping our planet, do you ever stop and think, "What can I do?" In Organic Manifesto, Maria Rodale, CEO of Rodale and granddaughter of the man who started the modern-day organic food movement, answers that question firmly: Buy organic food.
She says: "If you do just one thing to change the world, go organic. Going organic is the single most critical (and most DOABLE) action we can take right now to stop our climate crisis. Every acre of ground that's farmed organically has the potential to pull thousands of pounds of warming greenhouse gases out of our air. Organic farming is a real, attainable solution to our current global climate crisis! Organic farming can actually remove greenhouse gases from the air - helping to reverse the climate crisis! Organic living can stop the climate crisis. When you combine the impact of protecting the beneficial mycorrhizal fungi in the soil (which absorb and neutralize carbon) and eliminating all the toxic chemicals (and their packaging and the energy spent producing them), the carbon problem in our atmosphere is practically solved. We still need more renewable energy, but restoring the earth's ability to sequester carbon is a good place to start. And you'll do it while eating." Maria Rodale, "Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe"
For more information about buying organic, go here...
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RELATED NEWS
Disaster in the Amazon
 Published: June 4, 2010 New York Times by Bob Herbert
BP’s calamitous behavior in the Gulf of Mexico is the big oil story of the moment. But for many years, indigenous people from a formerly pristine region of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador have been trying to get relief from an American company, Texaco (which later merged with Chevron), for what has been described as the largest oil-related environmental catastrophe ever. Learn more...
 The Water Conflict in Ecuador
Posted by Julia Apland Hitz May 14, 2010
Powerful interests are colliding in Ecuador, and at the center of it all is water. The South American country is trying to decide who has the rights to water, who will control it, how will it be developed, and who will benefit. While a series of public consultations is part of the picture, political negotiations are being overshadowed by an upwelling of determined protest. Learn more…
World People's Conference on Climate Change
and the Rights of Mother Earth
Building the People's World Movement for Mother Earth
Read the draft “Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth here.
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