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Comment on Earth Tipi to host Affordable Natural Homes Workshop on Pine Ridge by David

David — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:20:20 +0000

More details and registration for workshop at http://designcoalition.org/projects/Workshops/workshops.html

5 Day Hands-on Home-building Workshop at the Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, USA ~~ July 25th – 29th, 2012

Comment on Earth Tipi to host Affordable Natural Homes Workshop on Pine Ridge by Roger

Roger — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:04:08 +0000

What are the dates?

Comment on Cottonwood Seedlings Delivered to Pine Ridge Reservation by David

David — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:48:09 +0000

Hi Star, Another one of our grassroots affiliates “Earth Tipi” on Pine Ridge is planting a food forest. You can learn more about their work at http://earthtipi.org.

Comment on Cottonwood Seedlings Delivered to Pine Ridge Reservation by Star

Star — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:40:51 +0000

Wonderful. I hope the tree planting initiate extends to food trees, berries, nuts and seeds to improve nutrition locally, provide jobs and incomes and to provide a constuctive activity for the youth in tree maintainance, harvesting and storage in a food forest landscape

Comment on A Profile of Judith Kimerling, the 2011 Albertson Medal Winner by The Amazon Pink Dolphin’s Voice: Oil and Gas Mean Misery and Forced Labor—Not Jobs—in Developing Countries & Chevron in Ecuador – Dirty business « SELVA- Vida Sin Fronteras

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:06:34 +0000

[...] Ecuadorians Kimerling works with have been mired in high-profile seemingly endless litigation. A case brought by local [...]

Comment on VE Affiliate, Empowering Youth Cambodia Opens 4th School! by Lambert Ndikumana

Lambert Ndikumana — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:25:11 +0000

Dave,

Congratulations for that important action done by the VE affiliate to help the underprivileged children of Phnom Penh in Cambodia. You are hitting to the point as education will always be the most important step in the process of Community Development. Some of those children you are training will be the future leaders of the country , and will be taking part in redeeming the whole world from poverty. By educating our youth, we prepare a good future for them and for our nations.

Lambert.

Comment on Community Garden Providing Food to Widows & Vulnerable Children by Lambert Ndikumana

Lambert Ndikumana — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:42:32 +0000

I congratulate this VCI in Darlu, Sierra Leone. It is a very good idea. In many African communities, there is a big problem due to the lack of food, and widows are among the first vulnerable groups. I think that a strategy should be set up to teach wives how they could take care of themselvs and their children after the death of their husbands, since no one knows who will die before the other. Even husbands should know that they are not immortal, that they will die one day, but that their families have to survive long after they have died. As a conclusion, I can say that, for the sake of sustainability of community development, women should be as important as men in the act of taking care of their families.

Lambert Ndikumana

Comment on Response to: “Why Are Indian Reservations So Poor? A Look At The Bottom 1%” by Lucy

Lucy — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:20:22 +0000

I agree totally, Native Americans have been abused far too long!! It is a disgrace ,what we have done!! Every person in the USA needs to understand the plight of Native Americans ,and we all need to take measures to prevent any further abuses, and begin to reverse it!! Anyone who is related especially to the early pioneer families and white settlers ,should be busting a gut to make amends for our fourbearers awful mistakes!! Native Americans did nothing to deserve this horrible treatment!! I agree totally ,it is NOT the Indians who are the Savages, it is us!!! We have been more brutal than nearly any people who ever lived on the planet!! The truth should be published in every history book to tell the truth, not a pack of lies!! Yes, these people ARE brilliant!! For instance a man in Montana had the highest IQ EVER recorded in the State, and He WAS NATIVE AMERICAN!!! We should be helping them as they have helped us in so,so many ways despite our horrific mistreatment!! The Last Navajo Code Talker a MR. Begay just died recently, these people SAVED our Country!!! They ,Native Americans have done so much for our country, we should be down on our knees thanking them with gratitude!! Not treating them like dirt!!

Comment on Limitations of the Current International Framework for Indigenous People by Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:26:26 +0000

Your article is excellent, let me write a couple of comments.

The World Bank estimates that forcible “development-induced displacement and resettlement” now affects 10 million people per year. According to the World Bank an estimated 33 million people have been displaced by development projects such as dams, urban development and irrigation canals in India alone.
India is well ahead in this respect. A country with as many as over 3600 large dams within its belt can never be the exceptional case regarding displacement. The number of development induced displacement is higher than the conflict induced displacement in India. According to Bogumil Terminski an estimated more than 10 million people have been displaced by development each year.
Athough the exact number of development-induced displaced people (DIDPs) is difficult to know, estimates are that in the last decade 90–100 million people have been displaced by urban, irrigation and power projects alone, with the number of people displaced by urban development becoming greater than those displaced by large infrastructure projects (such as dams). DIDPs outnumber refugees, with the added problem that their plight is often more concealed.

This is what experts have termed “development-induced displacement.” According to Michael Cernea, a World Bank analyst, the causes of development-induced displacement include water supply (dams, reservoirs, irrigation); urban infrastructure; transportation (roads, highways, canals); energy (mining, power plants, oil exploration and extraction, pipelines); agricultural expansion; parks and forest reserves; and population redistribution schemes.

Comment on Village Earth Promotes Appropriate Technology at UN WIPO Training by David

David — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:35:27 +0000

I would recommend patenting it in the countries where you want it protected. You could also patent it and sell the manufactured items but license the design under something like Creative Commons so others could produce and sell it. http://creativecommons.org/ If you don’t patent it than someone else could take your design, patent it, and then restrict you from distributing it.