2023 in review💥
Happy New Year!
Dear earthlings,
Wishing you a wonderful closing to 2023 and a peaceful beginning of 2024. May these days bring reflection of the year gone by and much needed rest to kickstart the new year with energy, love and compassion.
🗞️ The Climate News of 2023
💧 The drought in the Amazon river was the worst ever recorded.
🇧🇷 Brazilian bill PL490 (Marco Temporal) if passed would rip the Amazon apart.
📈 The Coolest Trends of 2023
✨ Our five eco-intentions for 2024
👵 Spend more time with elders.
🥬 Grow own food.
🍃 Learn to forage.
👂 Listen to nature’s wisdom when in doubt.
🫀 Follow the heart, and less the mind.
♾️ eco-story
🇧🇷 The Ongoing Struggle Against Marco Temporal
It is with a heavy heart that I again sit down to write about Marco Temporal and the laws surrounding the demarcation of Indigenous Territories in Brazil, particularly PL 2903.
We first published a story in July, chronicling Marco Temporal’s long history in Brazil’s political and legislative systems. In October, we returned to the topic after the Supreme Court’s decision on Marco Temporal in September, which was swiftly followed by the Senate’s approval of PL 2903. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva then exercised presidential veto powers on 47 provisions of PL 2903 that removed protections of Indigenous Territories, allowed the revocation of Territories already demarcated, and made the demarcation of new Territories near impossible.
🌏 The Culture Column
🎥 Doc of the year: All That Breathes
📸 Profile of the year: @animamundiherbals
📖 Book of the year: The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life, Drunvalo Melchizedek
🤯 Coolest discovery of the year: Scientists discover how to talk to humpback whales.