48. “In Co-Creation With The Earth” with Osprey Orielle Lake, The Story is in our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis.
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Welcome to episode 48 of the Nurtured by Nature podcast, today I’m delighted to be joined in conversation by Osprey Orielle Lake, author of the recently published book: The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis and Founder of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network.
As Einstein famously stated: “We can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it” and In this deeply thought provoking conversation and through her book, Osprey gently encourages us to reflect on our society and to travel back upstream to consider the dominant worldviews of our time and how they have evolved to lead our society to the place where we now stand surrounded by multiple interlocking crisis.
It is a conversation and journey that requires us to come with courage and open minds and hearts, but that is critical in ensuring that as the world we know begins to unravel we equip ourselves with a new mind, set free of the dominant worldviews of dominion over land and nature, patriarchy, colonialism and racism that have created the challenges we must now resolve.
What soon becomes clear from Osprey’s life work supporting and advocating for the rights of Indigenous people’s around the world is that change is already taking place and there are incredible and courageous people who hold and are creating the blueprint of a vision for a different worldview which is already helping to create encouraging changes through powerful initiatives like Rights For Nature.
Osprey shares many stories of the brave women who have stood up to large corporations and governments around the world to protect the natural world and their ancestral lands, beliefs and sovereignty, ultimately for the benefit of all of us, as 80% of all the bio-diversity left on Earth is currently stewarded by Indigenous people’s on Indigenous lands. To all of you, who have braved punishment and persecution and have been the new mind we need to solve our problems I dedicate this episode to you with my heartfelt thanks for your courage and determination in the face of adversity, I hope this message encourages others to use our voices in support of your wisdom as we remember our role as a keystone species under who’s stewardship nature can thrive. Thank You.
Learn more about Osprey:
Founder and executive director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Osprey Orielle Lake works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean-energy future.
She sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Osprey’s writing about climate justice, relationships with nature, women in leadership, and other topics has been featured in The Guardian, Earth Island Journal, The Ecologist, Ms. Magazine and many other publications.
She is the author of the award-winning book Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature. Osprey holds an MA in Culture and Environmental Studies from Holy Names University in Oakland and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area on Coast Miwok lands.
Website: https://ospreyoriellelake.earth
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ospreyoriellelake/
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WECAN:
Website: https://www.wecaninternational.org
Women Speak Database: https://womenspeak.wecaninternational.org
Women For Forests, including DRC Itombwe Rainforest Project: https://www.wecaninternational.org/women-for-forests
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