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This page was developed to facilitate the exchange of information, resources, and best practices for participants of the August 2007 training in Participatory Practices for Sustainable Development at Colorado State University.

Below are the latest posts from Blogs developed and mainatained by participants in the August 2007 PPSD. Click here for instructions about developing your own blog to share information about your project please visit this link for instructions. Once you've created a blog contact David Bartecchi david@villageearth.org to include your RSS feed in this aggregator.

» "METSA NII" DENUNCIA POR TALA INDISCRIMIDAD DE BOSQUES EN UCAYALI
04/11/08 14:47 from sinametsa
METSA NII .- Instituto para el Desarrollo Sostenible y la proteccion del medio Ambiente y la Ecologia, denuncia a las autoridades regionales y provincales y asu vez a la INRENA, por no tomar medidas drasticas contra aquellos que talan indi..

» PRIMERAS ACTIVIDADES DE "METSA NII"
30/10/08 21:00 from sinametsa
METSA NII.- Instituto para el Desarrollo Sostenible, la Proteccion del Medio Ambiente y la Ecologia, realizara sus primeras actividades: - Taller sobre los temas : Politica Ambiental y Participacion de las Comunidades Nsativas en las Activ..

» Mapping for Change on Pine Ridge
27/10/08 16:03 from Pine Ridge Project Blog
Land issues on Native American Reservations are extremely complex and masked by layers and layers of bureaucracy. The old axiom, knowledge is power is the name of the game. But the game has changed with the advent of computerized mapping s..

» EXITOSA JURAMENTACION DE LOS JOVENES INDIGENAS DE INSTITUTO METSA NII
22/10/08 21:36 from sinametsa
JURAMENTACION DE LOS MIEMBROS DE INSTITUTO "METSA NII" Ante la verdadera necesidad de buscar el desarrollo de lo pueblos indigenas y la proteccion de medio ambiente y la ecologia, jovenes universitarios indigenas de MESTSA NII - Instituto ..

» METSA NII, Un Instituto creado recientemente por los Jovenes Estudiantes Indigenas Universitario
15/10/08 15:33 from sinametsa
METSA NII Instituto de Desarrollo Sostenible, la Proteccion del Medio Ambiente y la Ecologia. Antecedente El Instituto Mestsa Nii en lengua shipibo konibo, traducido al castellano significa Metsa =hermoso y Nii =bosque, tierra de hermosos ..

» More Buffalo Delivered to Pine Ridge
29/09/08 16:04 from Pine Ridge Project Blog
This weekend, Village Earth delivered 7 more buffalo to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. These buffalo were donated by the Danylchuck Buffalo Ranch in Rye, Colorado . This is the 5th year that the Danylchuck's have donated buffa..

» Peru throws out Amazon land laws
23/08/08 21:30 from Peru Project Blog
Reposted from BBC News The Amazon region is home to some of Peru's poorest communities Peru's Congress has voted to repeal two land laws aimed at opening up Amazonian tribal areas to development, which led to protests by indigenous groups...

» A message from ODDPIAP to Village Earth Supporters
21/08/08 22:39 from Peru Project Blog
Photos: Courtesy of AIDESEP Dear Village Earth Supporters, Protests have ended today after more than a week of armed blockades on roads and energy installations. More than 60 ethnic groups have come together in solidarity leaving behind th..

» $455 Million, Adding Insult to Injury
11/08/08 18:24 from Pine Ridge Project Blog
Federal District judge Robertson recently ruled that the U.S. Government owes Native Americans $455 million dollars as "proper repair" for the estimated $47 billion that the Government never paid individual Indians for income generated from..

» Pepper Creek Gardening Project
29/07/08 15:36 from Pine Ridge Project Blog
(Above: Pete rakes cut grass on his land for feed for goats and other animals he's raising) In the heart of Pine Ridge's Wounded Knee District, a few miles up a dirt road west of Manderson lies Pepper Creek and the location of Pete Stand's..