A Global Dialogue Rooted in Local Wisdom Hosted by the Temple of Understanding in partnership with the Real Organic Project, this powerful dialogue brought together organic farmers and educators from around the world to discuss the challenges and promise of...
The Temple of Understanding continues work toward protecting biodiversity with Faiths for Biodiversity, participating in the Biodiversity COP 16 in Cali, Colombia, towards Making Peace with Nature held from 21 October -1 November 2024.
Thursday, Apr 18, 2024, 10am-11:30am ET
Speakers: Anastasia Nesvetailova, Linley Dixon, Paul Holmbeck, Dr. Miguel Altieri
Host: Grove Harris, M.Div.
Topic: This discussion will address the essential needs and ways to scale up organic farming and agroecology towards ending hunger and poverty (United Nations’s Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 2).
ECO JUSTICE FOR ALL Dialogues present The Food Crisis in Kenya is a World CrisisDiscussion with Patricia Kombo, Founder of PaTree Initiative, Kenya, and Len Morris, American documentary filmmaker, lecturer and advocate for children’s human rights, and Daniel Wanjama,...
Temple of Understanding is proud to have received accreditation from the United Nations to participate in the upcoming convening of the parties on the Convention on Biological Diversity, to be held in Montreal and virtually this December 2022. We will continue to...
Let's Go Organic: Empowering Local Food SystemsJoin Dave Chapman and the Real Organic project as we explore two spiritual traditions of farming, one from the Biodynamic system and the other from the Buddhist Zen tradition. This Dialogue centers on how local...
Dr. Vandana Shiva "I'm so happy to join the Forum 2021 on Sacred Food and Blessed Earth. We have forgotten that food is sacred and what we have forgotten is that sacred food comes from a blessed earth and goes back actually to bless the earth. It's not that humanity...
Grandmother Mona Polacca "I'd like to greet each and every one of you, I'm happy to be here. This is a good day. This time that we are taking to acknowledge the blessing of our nourishment that is given to us by Mother Earth, as part of the, Sacred Food ~ Blessed...
Chief Oren Lyons "I began with our instruction. Now I'm just talking specifically about the Haudenosaunee, Six Nations, Iroquois Confederacy. I can't speak for the whole Indigenous Peoples' of North, Central and South America, although we are very, very similar on...
Chief Arvol Looking Horse "I pray today. Like every morning we get up in the morning with a good mind to pray for the health and the wellbeing of all nations, that we are in a time of a global disasters. We are the crossroads and we need to pray and heal together for...