Your Fall Edition of Earth News

EARTH: Earth Action, Reflection, Theology and Hope International Connections and Bridge Building According to a recent United Nations report, just 26 of 193 countries have followed through on commitments they made last year to increase their work to fight climate change. We cannot wait for governments to take action. We must work individually and collectively to save our plant. Environmental stewardship starts at home, but to make meaningful progress, our work must extend to the far corners of the world. This edition of Earth News highlights just a few of the ways working across borders can make a real difference to our world. Mother Nature doesn't recognize political boundaries and neither should we. We must become environmental missionaires and spread healing around the world. In faith and hope, Eric Diekhans Editor Land As the climate crisis intensifies, stopping land grabs and defending the land and territory rights of Indigenous, Black and African-descended peoples, family farmers, and traditional communities are essential to protecting peoples and ecosystems. READ MORE Building Bridges to Armenia The Armenian diaspora has spread to many corners of the world. Armenia Tree Project has brought them together to turn a looming environmental crises into a model of hope and resiliance. READ MORE Wisdom Weavers In 2014, Ilarion “Larry” Merculieff carried his wisdom and energy from a remote Indigenous community on an island in the Bering Sea, and offered it to a Presbyterians for Earth Care conference. READ MORE Inspired by the vision of Alaskan Unangan traditional and environmental leader, Ilarion (Kuuyux) Merculieff, invitations were sent out to gather Elders from the four directions to sit in council and hold ceremonies for the purpose of deep listening to the wisdom streams that were ready to be shared. Over ten thousand years ago, Elders at that time knew that a great imbalance was coming, so the original instructions of how to live in harmony as one Earth family were partially hidden by a wave of forgetting to keep them safe. Each group of people had enough wisdom to survive and continue on, but no one people had all of the knowledge once available to them.

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