Seventh Generation

Oren Lyons, Chief of the Onondaga Iroquois Nation, speaks of ancient wisdom:

"We are looking ahead, as is one of the first mandates given us as chiefs, to make sure and to make every decision that we make relate to the welfare and well-being of the seventh generation to come...."

"What about the seventh generation? Where are you taking them? What will they have?"

GreenPolicy Siterunner: Chief Lyons is one of our favorite Bioneers who has joined with us -- and helped to open our eyes and hearts for many years

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Today's Challenge

Generational Thinking, Sustainable Living

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Seventh_Generation_Sustainability

"The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time." -- Terry Tempest Williams

Seven generation sustainability is an ecological concept that urges the current generation of humans to live sustainably and work for the benefit of the seventh generation into the future. It originated with the Iroquois - Great Law of the Iroquois - which holds appropriate to think seven generations ahead (about 140 years into the future) and decide whether the decisions they make today would benefit their children seven generations into the future.

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Seventh_Generation_Sustainability

"In every deliberation, we must consider the impact on the seventh generation... even if it requires having skin as thick as the bark of a pine." This is an often repeated saying, and most who use it claim that it comes from “The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations: The Great Binding Law.”

In fact, the original language is as follows: In all of your deliberations in the Confederate Council, in your efforts at law making, in all your official acts, self-interest shall be cast into oblivion. Cast not over your shoulder behind you the warnings of the nephews and nieces should they chide you for any error or wrong you may do, but return to the way of the Great Law which is just and right. Look and listen for the welfare of the whole people and have always in view not only the present but also the coming generations, even those whose faces are yet beneath the surface of the ground – the unborn of the future Nation.

• http://blog.nativepartnership.org/sustainability/

Chief Oren Lyons

"We are Part of the Earth" (Video)

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"Honor the Earth"

Indigenous Vision for a Sustainable Earth

https://www.honorearth.net/

Winona LaDuke | Green Party

“One of our fundamental teachings is that in all our actions we consider the impact it will have on seven generations. Think about what it would mean to have a worldview that could last a thousand years, instead of the current corporate mindset that can’t see beyond the next quarterly earnings statement.” -- Winona LaDuke, Anishinaabe activist and former US Green Party candidate for vice president...

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Sustainable Thinking, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Living,

Ancient Wisdom, Modern Vision, Future Focus

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sustainable_Development

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Wild Law

https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Law-Manifesto-Earth-Justice/dp/1900322900

From the Book Publisher / Environmental Laws: Wild Law fuses politics, legal theory, quantum physics and ancient wisdom into a fascinating story. It has been seminal in informing and inspiring the global movement to recognise rights for Nature – a movement destined to shape the twenty-first century as significantly as the human rights movements shaped the twentieth century. This revised edition includes a new preface, postscript and the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth proclaimed on 22 April 2010.

Wild Law presents a vision of how we could transform the systems that structure and order industrialised societies to enable us to rediscover a viable role for our species within the Earth community. It reveals how the goverance systems of today legitimise and promote the disastrous expolitation and destruction of Earth. The author explains how to begin transforming these systems to ensure that the pursuit of human well-being enhances the beauty, health and diversity of Earth instead of diminishing it.

Wild Law describes an Earth-centred approach to ordering human societies (Earth jurisprudence), how to apply it, and it's emerging role as a common manifesto for promoting social and environmental justice, the conservation of biological and cultural diversity, animal rights and welfare, and green spirituality.

Rights of Nature EarthLaw

Rights of Nature, Books

○ "Rights of Nature" ○ Rights of Earth

Life and the 'Human Niche' at Risk

GreenPolicy360 Siterunner / Clearwater, Florida:

Trendlines, we are looking at trendlines today. Data, the data changing as time passes. We need to step back and have perspective. We need to look closely, to 'drill down' and see with detail. Measure-to-Manage NASA says, science advises, GreenPolicy360 recommends as a guide.

GreenPolicy360 believes in personal responsibility to manage wisely. We are planet citizens and earth is in human hands. Together we are guiding planet home into the future. We are delivering a legacy to future generations.

And we are watching our progress, for good and bad.

Too Hot

One of GreenPolicy360's great concerns is climate change, as all our readers and sharers know. A recent study of a 'new normal' caught our attention today, a global study and national breakout of data changing over time. And as we are looking at this 'new normal' data, a century of temperatures, we cannot help but think what will happen if the temperature increases continue, a trendline into the future, up and up into the 'unliveable... uninhabitable' temperatures range. 'Cooling technology' will be required and being outdoors will be limited...

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Bioneers

Chief Lyons and the Bioneers

Indigeneity is a Native-led program within the Bioneers that shares Indigenous solutions to our most pressing social and environmental issues. We welcome all people to re-indigenize by learning from Indigenous teachings and the experiences of your ancestors.

https://bioneers.org/why-we-need-healing-and-reconciliation

Terri Hansen: “The Native American model of governance that is fair and will always meet the needs of the seventh generation to come is taken from the Iroquois Confederacy. The seventh generation principle dictates that decisions that are made today should lead to sustainability for seven generations into the future. And Indigenous nations in North America were and are for the most part organized by democratic principles that focus on the creation of strong kinship bonds that promote leadership in which honor is not earned by material gain but by service to others. In the plains, there was great honor in giving your horses to the poorest members of the tribe. The potlatch still practiced in the Paciﬁc Northwest is another example of voluntarily redistributing wealth to those who have the least.”

As a Bioneer, a Planet Citizen - http://www.bioneers.org/staff/chief-oren-lyons/

"The Roots of American Democracy" (with Video)