Favourable times and circumstances are, as I have already said, the two main means employed by nature to bring into existence all her productions. We know that time has no limits for her and that, as a result, she always has time to spare. As to the circumstances which she needed and which she still uses every day to vary everything which she continues to produce, we can say that circumstances are, in some way, for her inexhaustible.
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“We don’t want anyone to tell or steal our story,” she said. “We’re not only still here but we’re not leaving. We’re not going away.”
History is created by the stories we choose to re-tell about the past. offering multiple perspectives is an important and valuable source to expand our understanding of how social interactions and perceptions shaped the US today. But telling and glorying this story is wrong. Lewis and Clark were harbingers of colonialism and cultural erasure. The indigenous needs to be told and honored, perhaps more than glorifying genocidal powers.
They encouraged tribes to send delegations of important tribal leaders east to meet the president. Lewis and Clark also documented a wealth of information about the continent west of the Mississippi River in their journals and maps of their travels, including the regional geology, flora and fauna.
gifts, collecting, studying the other
If these are “social responsibilities,” they are the social responsibilities of individuals, not of business.
right, but when these principles are collected under the umbrella of a corporation, it becomes a collective vision of social responsibility. We collectively are a community whose best interest is to feel for and care for one another. Friedman totally strips the humanism from corporations.
ENGO survey
survey-based study used to standardize
We analyze an original dataset of 679 ENGOs participating in global environmental conventions in the mid-2010s, and we apply quantitative content analysis to ENGO mission statements to produce an inductive typology of global environmental discourse.
this is a great resource for an methodological/scientific approach to determining a major NGO
Francis tried to depose man from his monarchy over creation and set up a democracy of all God's creatures. With him the ant is no longer simply a homily for the lazy, flames a sign of the thrust of the soul toward union with God; now they are Brother Ant and Sister Fire, praising the Creator in their own ways as Brother Man does in his.
cool, but that means everything in nature is associated with morality and truth. what about knowledge? He is trying to inset rationality into a system that is utterly irrational.
On more intricate matters it often is impossible to find solid information.
we have no clue how we impact the environment
Informing policy
Informing and instructing policy and resolutions mobilizing action and money Strategically helping to assemble funds for action Educating and convening with like-minded individuals
All of these activities take place around the globe, per 11 operational regions that coordinate work and network.
These activities address 8 main areas/themes: * Biodiversity * Business, finance, and economics * Climate change * Freshwater and water security * Governance - law and rights * Nature-based solutions * Oceans and coasts * Protected areas and land use
Science-led approach
What does this mean?
Resources
They talk briefly about being a formalized "standard-setter for conservation and sustainable development." This includes the red list. Identifying at risk elements of nature in order to address them and evaluate the action's effectiveness.
It makes me interested in how they collect data and decide on establishing standards. It seems reputable since their network is that of experts that I would expect to uphold a sense of scientific ethic and truth.
IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas
It seems the most important documents put out include their "Green List" of areas/organisms protected and "Red List" of at-risk species.
Our resources share the knowledge gathered by IUCN’s unique global community of 18,000+ experts. They include databases, tools, standards, guidelines and policy recommendations. We author hundreds of books, assessments, reports, briefs and research papers every year.
offer a library of IUCN "experts," available to the public. "Hundreds" of documents. that's a lot of knowledge being shared!
1,400 + Member organizations
The organization functions based on its members, who direct, mandate, and amplify policy proposed with the IUCN's six commissions and employees (who in turn provide knowledge formation, influence, and action for better policy, people, and nature).
Members include: * State and govt agencies * subnational govt * other NGOs * Indigenous People's Organization
IUCN's commissions include: * Commission on Education and Communication * Commission on Ecosystem Management * Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy * Species Survival Commission * World Commission on Environmental Law * World Commission on Protected Areas
Strength in influence and numbers!
Our RESULTS
Identifying threatened species, restoring/conserving land, publishing environmental reports, achieving govt resolutions, enforcing a set of environmental standards
based on the most up-to-date science.
science-based approaches to addressing biodiversity loss
membership Union uniquely composed of both government and civil society organisations
The organization seems to specifically identify themselves as a collective of public-facing organizations. This would differ to that of a NGO owned by private shareholders.
Regulation theory,Gramscian hegemony and critical state theory – supplemented by PoliticalEcology
using verbiage I would commonly associate with well-developed political and economic policy for a up-and-coming ideology transition. bc of this: stabilized "dialectics of constructive and destructive capitalist dynamics which take place under more or less stable conditions." vocab needs to be used to contextualize and play "their game"
Green Capitalism
transitioning market characterizations