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Created: Mar 26, 2008
Updated: Sep 29, 2009
Membership: Open
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Josh Levine, Land Laureate Institute
Joah
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Areas of Focus
Permaculture
(3249 people) | Alternative Medicine
(2838 people) | Domesticated Animal Diversity
(341 people) | Environmental Education
(3380 people) | Natural Resource Education
(1212 people) | Art and Sculpture
(1680 people) | Wildlife Habitat Conservation
(2363 people) | Practical Conservation
(962 people) | Wilderness
(1758 people) | Organic Farming
(3630 people) | Wildlife Ecology
(1651 people) | Agroecology
(1165 people) | Sustainability, Religious and Spiritual Issues
(2669 people) | Land Stewardship
(1625 people) | Biodiversity Conservation
(3171 people) | Conservation Biology
(874 people) | Ethnobotany
(1031 people) | Ecopsychology
(1279 people) | Biomimicry
(1613 people) | Indigenous Peoples and Cultures
(2787 people)
About
The Land Laureate Program
Traditional cultures have often recognized individuals within their communities who have a special understanding of the social relationships between their human communities and the surrounding animal and plant communities. These individuals are often given honorific titles and held in great esteem in their communities. In other cultures, a person who mediates between the human and natural world might be called a shaman, a kahuna or a guardbosque. There is no analogous title and job description in our own culture. The Land Laureate Institute seeks to institutionalize this practice of conferring respect upon these individuals, and listening to their wisdom within our own culture.
Modeled loosely after the Poet Laureate program, a committee of distinguished advisors will nominate and select individual Land Laureates on regional, state and national levels. Each Land Laureate will serve for a term of two years, during which time they will act as spokesperson for their land and the people, animals and plants who inhabit their home lands. Along with their title (i.e. Sonoma County Land Laureate, California Land Laureate, U.S. Land Laureate), they will be awarded a monetary prize. This honorarium will allow the Laureates to spend time traveling and speaking on behalf of their constituencies, discussing the environmental and social issues affecting their regions.
The Land Laureate program creates a highly visible public podium from which the Land Laureates may educate the general population about the places in which they live, and how they may better care for them. In addition, the existence of Land Laureate Institute and the Laureates sends a strong message to adults and children alike about the importance and value of studying the land, animals and plants where one lives. It is this relational knowledge that allows us to appropriately and respectfully care for, and protect the land and all of its inhabitants.
Traditional cultures have often recognized individuals within their communities who have a special understanding of the social relationships between their human communities and the surrounding animal and plant communities. These individuals are often given honorific titles and held in great esteem in their communities. In other cultures, a person who mediates between the human and natural world might be called a shaman, a kahuna or a guardbosque. There is no analogous title and job description in our own culture. The Land Laureate Institute seeks to institutionalize this practice of conferring respect upon these individuals, and listening to their wisdom within our own culture.
Modeled loosely after the Poet Laureate program, a committee of distinguished advisors will nominate and select individual Land Laureates on regional, state and national levels. Each Land Laureate will serve for a term of two years, during which time they will act as spokesperson for their land and the people, animals and plants who inhabit their home lands. Along with their title (i.e. Sonoma County Land Laureate, California Land Laureate, U.S. Land Laureate), they will be awarded a monetary prize. This honorarium will allow the Laureates to spend time traveling and speaking on behalf of their constituencies, discussing the environmental and social issues affecting their regions.
The Land Laureate program creates a highly visible public podium from which the Land Laureates may educate the general population about the places in which they live, and how they may better care for them. In addition, the existence of Land Laureate Institute and the Laureates sends a strong message to adults and children alike about the importance and value of studying the land, animals and plants where one lives. It is this relational knowledge that allows us to appropriately and respectfully care for, and protect the land and all of its inhabitants.