Climate Action Mondays Tuesday

• weka
• 2 years ago
• Categories: climate change, sustainability
• Tags: climate action mondays, Future Whenua Summit, Mangarara Station, regenag

Completely forgot about posting this yesterday, way too busy at the moment, but in line with climate action, better late than never. 

Here’s the original post from last week, some lovely suggestions about what we can do locally especially regarding supporting local food growers and all the benefits of that: lower food miles, lower GHG emissions, healthier food, better for the land and biodiversity, keeping money in the local economy and providing local jobs.

Here’s the gist of Climate Action Mondays,

• I can’t wait anymore, it’s time to act as if our lives depend on it, to make climate change and ecological systems the context of everything we do.
• We are in the long emergency, and age of sequential and compounding crises that will increase with time, there is no going back to normal.
• We can however choose to act for life, the best chance of things working out, and humans finding a new stability and way of being that doesn’t involve killing the planet.
• The good news is that resiliency can be taught and learned.
• There are whole swathes of counter cultures dedicated to just this: transitioning away from our current life-destroying societies to life-affirming ones that are built to both mitigate and adapt to climate change and to restore the natural world.
• There will a post up every Monday dedicated to taking action on climate and ecology: discussing action, how to manage, developing strategy, telling the stories of how things can be different and how we can make that happen right now.

This week, quick pop culture reference hack,

Then, an example of what is happening in the counter cultures, where Kiwis are just getting on and doing the right things. This is the Future Whenua Summit 2022, held recently in Hawkes Bay at regenag farm Mangarara Station (despite all the rain!). A gathering of farmers and rural folk, who are doing a deep dive showcasing and networking the leading edge of regenerative land use.

Speakers included live NZ experts as well as international via the internet,

Future Whenua Summit aspires to the deepest possible exploration of how we can redefine our relationship between the land and its stewards. Our scope is distanced from the “business as usual” mindset with its focus on incremental change (if any) that dominates the rural sector, We are passionate advocates for radical solutions to existential problems and the summit is our annual opportunity to champion that mindset.

We are going to shine light on some progressive concepts and key solutions in our sector. We bring the discussion about the future of land use out of the conference room and onto the whenua.

This is the video of the 2021 Summit held in Southland,

This 43 min doco on Mangarara Station looking at the transition from traditional beef and sheep to regenerative agriculture, carbon sequestration, carbon trading scheme, and agroforestry.

 

I don’t allow climate denialism of any kind under my posts. That includes arguing the Bart defense (‘humans didn’t do it’), or the Gosman defense (BAU capitalism must reign supreme/change is too hard) or the McPherson defense (‘it’s too late’).