Media for a New Humanity
Creating media to connect, serve and transform our world.
This group was formed at the Alliance for a New Humanity conference in San Jose, Costa Rica, March 11-13, 2008. Our mission is to connect people, who, through personal and social transformation, aim to build a just, peaceful, and sustainable world, reflecting the unity of all humanity.
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Created: Mar 25, 2008
Updated: Nov 27, 2009
Membership: Open
Semi-Private
Josh Levine, Land Laureate Institute
Joah
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Areas of Focus
Permaculture
(3265 people) | Alternative Medicine
(2846 people) | Domesticated Animal Diversity
(342 people) | Environmental Education
(3386 people) | Natural Resource Education
(1213 people) | Art and Sculpture
(1687 people) | Wildlife Habitat Conservation
(2376 people) | Practical Conservation
(963 people) | Wilderness
(1761 people) | Organic Farming
(3650 people) | Wildlife Ecology
(1653 people) | Agroecology
(1166 people) | Sustainability, Religious and Spiritual Issues
(2675 people) | Land Stewardship
(1628 people) | Biodiversity Conservation
(3181 people) | Conservation Biology
(875 people) | Ethnobotany
(1033 people) | Ecopsychology
(1283 people) | Biomimicry
(1617 people) | Indigenous Peoples and Cultures
(2794 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.