Trees for our Children...: Environmental Action Network at the University of Regina

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Environmental Action Network at the University of Regina

A new group has formed at the U of R...

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The Environmental Action Network at the U or R is a group of students, faculty, and community members interested in direct action in regards to creating awareness of the Environment and environmental issues in our community (local and global)...

Some of the Current Issues we are working with...

- Helping to organize and network faculty and student's interested in having a say in the creation of the new interdisciplinarty Environmental Studies degree at the Unviersity of Regina

- Informing the staff and student's at the university of Regina in regards to local environmental issues and creating a discourse on relevant subjects...

- Helping URSU [the university of Regina Student's Union] and the university admininstration(?) create an ethical purchasing and gift-acceptance policy that reflects their commitment to the UN Millenium Development Goals (espicially in regards to environmental sustainability and maternal health)... rather than a commitment to further corpratization of our campus!

- add our facebook group!

- come to our next meeting!
Friday November 23 (Ad-hum pit U of R) 4PM

- if your not from the U of R, start a similar group on your campus or in your community!

- for more info contact environmentalactionnetwork@gmail.com

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A Few of My Premises

A Few of my Premises, (note, they are constantly growing and changing as a result of my commitment to keep learning and listening...)

1) My use of the term "environment" generally refers to (though not exclusively) habitat and interactions between humans and non-humans living in a local and global ecosystem. This meens that human rights issues are environmental issues. So are non-human rights.

2) Everyone has the right to breath non-toxic air, drink uncontaminated water, and to enjoy the last scattered remnants of a disappearing natural world. So do their children. And so do future generations.

3) There is a serious problem of an uniformed and misinformed citizenry in our society. Though there is a growing environmental conscious. I sincerely believe that if more people knew the impact their lifestyles had... not only on the billions living and dying in poverty, but on the countless generations yet to come... then they would be willing to change their lifestyles and way of thinking...

4) There is a mighty propaganda campaign by those in power who wish to remain in power... specifically in regards to the ongoing SPP negotiations

5) I believe in a need to re-evaluate how human progress is measured… quality of life is more important than “sum of all transactions.” (like the GDP)
Politicians will say that they are doing good because GDP has gone up 3.5%... GDP!? What About Child Poverty? What about workplace death rates?

6) Economic Progress is not human progress!

7) There is a serious problem with accountability. In a global society where power is more economically-based than democratically-based; national governments are being slowly overpowered and infiltrated by the bottom-line agendas of shareholder-accountable and profit-motivated trans-national corporations. (TNCs) The individuals who destroy habitat, biodiversity, and (non-anthrocentrically) life itself on this planet solely for tyranical money and power NEED to be held accountable for their actions. The corporate juggernauts they have created need to be regulated and dismantled, not fed with the blood of innocence and apathy.

8) I therefore have an intense dislike and disgust with big corporate agenda-pushers that decieve, lie, and kill for money.
Especially;
-The Military Industrial Complex
-Big Pharmacy
-Big Tobacco
-The Nuclear Industry
-The Automobile Industry
-Big Oil (Fossil Fuels)
-Coca-Cola and Nestle (most evil of Big Junkfood {that we know of})
... I will fight you aforementioned institutions of legalized-corruption, money, and power!

9) Our society’s lifestyle is stealing the future from our children. Specifically, our systematic addiction to non-renewable sources of energy. There needs to be an institutionalized awareness of our society's lack of inter-generational justice.
Trees for our children is a metaphor for a needed awareness of how our lifestyles will affect those that follow.

Words of Wisdom...

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children.
-Native Canadian Proverb

"The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget." - Arundhati Roy

"Once you've seen, you can't unsee. And once you've seen, doing nothing becomes just as political an act as speaking out. Either way, your accountable." -Arundhati Roy

“Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us." - Henrik Tikkanen

“The earth is not dying, it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.”
-Utah Phillips

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -George Orwell

"All animals are created equal. But some animals are more equal than others."
-George Orwell

“I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.”
-Unknown

Trees for our Children...

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Environmental Action Network at the University of Regina

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