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Welcome (or not) to Rio Centro

Nathan Thanki June 14, 2012 2 Comments

by nathan thanki Today marked the first day of the "Third Preparatory Committee meeting to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development." That basically just means that negotiators have a few days to finalise all the details of the outcome document (the offensively titled "Future We Want"). Things just got kicked up a gear. These past few days had been spent getting our...

Responding to Youth Blast questions

Nathan Thanki June 13, 2012 0 Comments

by nathan thanki On the second morning of the international section of the #youthblast, the organisers asked those gathered as the Major Group for Children and Youth (the official Youth constituency for this UN process) a series of "questions you were always too afraid to ask" about Rio+20. As a group we hesitantly attempted to answer the following: What do we do after Rio? How...

[Earth]’s first Video update!

Nathan Thanki June 12, 2012 0 Comments

Hello friends, Here's our first ever video blog - an update on our first day at the Youth Blast, and what we've been working on:

A Plea to Paul Kingsnorth: Don’t withdraw; re-draw. Join us in Rio.

Nathan Thanki May 23, 2012 22 Comments

by nathan thanki One busy day in March I received an email from a biology, conservation and ecology professor at COA. Attached to the message was a link to an article by Paul Kingsnorth from the February edition of Orion Magazine, entitled “Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist.” I opened the link to have no more than a glance, but instead spent the next hour and a half reading,...

A Date With History (script) English and Spanish version

Nathan Thanki May 6, 2012 0 Comments

This script was writen by a group of us for a video context in preparation to the Rio+20 conference. by Anjali Appadurai, Nimisha Bastedo, Anyuri Betegon, Graham Reeder, Nathan Thanki, Julian Velez, and Trudi Zundel. The video can be seen here. We are Earth in Brackets and the future we want requires radical change. Radical: Favoring drastic political, economic, and social reforms. Radical:...