Organic Coffee - Mexico, Peru, Guatemala

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Blog post by Tina Winterlik © 2011

http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.com

Check out how Social Media is helping Organic Coffee Growers in Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Peru Ethopia! This is so COOL! I JUST LOVE IT!!

http://www.traceablecoffee.org


http://www.traceablecoffee.org/farmers/country:mexico

http://www.traceablecoffee.org/tipjars/



A UNIQUE TRACK & TRACE INFORMATION SYSTEM CREATED BY OUR FARMERS.


AS FARMERS AND DISTRIBUTORS, WE CONTROL QUALITY FROM THE FARM TO YOU. OUR COFFEE IS PRODUCED UNDER SHADE CANOPY AND CERTIFIED ORGANIC.







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Pachamama -Traceable Coffee

Filmed by Olaf Hammelburg of Connecting Worlds.


Filmed by Olaf Hammelburg of Connecting Worlds.


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WE ARE COFFEE FARMERS!

Pachamama is a unique company owned by more than 100,000 coffee farmers around the world. Our farmers ship their best organic coffee to the USA from Ethiopia, Guatemala, Peru, Nicaragua and Mexico. We hand-roast in small batches in the U.S.A. and ship direct to customers in North America.

Our mission is to provide customers with premium coffee in the most direct manner possible and, in doing so, improve the lives of small-scale farmers and their families.
A GLOBAL FARMERS' COOPERATIVE.

PCC is democratically-controlled and owned by its members, the following farmer cooperatives:

* PERU - COCLA - Quillabamba - 8,500+ family farmers
* NICARAGUA - PRODECOOP - Estelí - 2,300+ family farmers
* GUATEMALA - MANOS CAMPESINAS - Quetzaltenango - 1,100+ family farmers
* MEXICO - LA UNIÓN REGIONAL - Huatusco - 1,950+ family farmers
* ETHIOPIA - OROMIA - Addis Ababa - 135,000+ family farmers


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Filmed by Olaf Hammelburg of Connecting Worlds.



Filmed by Olaf Hammelburg of Connecting Worlds.


http://www.traceablecoffee.org/about/


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http://www.pachamama.coop/sd_pages.cfm?pageid=781

Heart Storming- Come! Watch, Help Share Mother Earth's Message

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Blog post by Tina Winterlik © 2011

http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.com 

Happy Friday Everyone, Have a Great Weekend, here's a Beautiful Message From Pacha Mama to Share with All Your Friends and start things off right!
http://www.pachamama.org/
http://www.facebook.com/PachamamaAlliance


Heart Storming- Come! Watch, Help Share Mother Earth's Message

Our Mission

Our mission is to empower indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest to preserve their lands and culture and, using insights gained from that work, To educate and inspire individuals everywhere to bring forth a thriving, just and sustainable world.

Our Story

The Pachamama Alliance was born in response to a request from the Achuar, an indigenous people deep in the Amazon region of Ecuador. The Achuar made the courageous decision to seek a partnership with people from the industrialized world who would work with them in protecting their rainforest home and their traditional way of life. Out of this unique partnership, it has become evident that indigenous wisdom and insight offer enormous value in addressing the complex issues that we face in our modern world.

 http://www.pachamama.org/rainforest-journeys

Latest News
http://www.pachamama.org/category/news/

Awakening The Dreamer

http://www.pachamama.org/news/awakening-the-dreamer/2011/03/04/mexico-korea-awakening-dreamer-expansion-collaboration-momentum-examples/

Mexico and Korea: 

Awakening the Dreamer Set for Further Expansion

Posted on March 4th, 2011

The Awakening the Dreamer communities in Mexico and Korea recently learned just how powerful each individual can be when they synergize their efforts and act in concert with others with common interests and aspirations. 

In each country, the Symposium message is gaining momentum, and about to grow even more powerfully.

A vibrant group of Mexican Facilitators came together for two days in a very powerful and energizing planning session to determine their vision, mission, leadership, and strategic partners. 

Mexican Facilitators left their planning session with a Mexican council in place, and concrete actions to coordinate and support their fast growing Facilitator body.


In Korea, Dr. Ken Gimm, with his very active fellow Facilitators, started to organize their actions and inspired more than 100 trained Facilitators in just over one year! 

In 2011 Korea has set the bar with a goal of presenting the Symposium to 10,000 individuals and training 200 Facilitators.  

Both communities in Korea and Mexico serve as inspiring examples of what can happen when groups of like-minded people come together to create a vision with a plan for action.

Would You Like to Be on the International Team of People Spreading the FOUR YEARS. GO. Commitment Campaign?

http://www.pachamama.org/news/four-years-go/2011/03/04/international-team-4yg-commitment-campaign-new-future-shift-humanity/

Posted on March 4th, 2011

If so, we invite you to join the 4YG Mobilizers – the precious and audacious people who are leading the expansion of the 4YG declaration worldwide, honoring our commitment to create a new future for humanity by the end of 2014.

Join others like you from all parts of the globe interested in spreading FOUR YEARS. GO. through the arts, media, social media, speaking engagements, youth, organizations, special events and one-on-one conversations.
 
We regularly hold inspiring conference calls where we provide a rich array of training and development.  

We also interact with each other in our online community and occasionally get together virtually for Mobilizer Summits. 

Our very first virtual Mobilizer summit will be held on April 16, 2011 with sessions available to accommodate all time zones. 

If you are interested in joining the Mobilizers and/or want to participate in the virtual summit, please contact marilyn@fouryearsgo.org.
 

We invite you to join the team that will change the course of history in the next four years!

A Call For Our Time!

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Please for the sake of our Children and our Future and Nature and Mother Earth, Please watch this powerful video!

A Call For Our Time: The Story of The Pachamama Alliance (2010) from Pachamama Alliance on Vimeo.

http://www.pachamama.org/

http://awakeningthedreamer.org/
The Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium is an interactive transformational workshop that inspires participants to play a role in creating a new future: an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence on this planet. Find out how you can get involved.

Generation Waking Up!

http://awakeningthedreamer.org/content/view/297/220/

Generation Waking Up is a global campaign to ignite a generation of young people to bring forth a thriving, just, sustainable world.

We strive to:

- Awaken in young people a clear sense of who we are as a generation, an understanding of the urgent global challenges and opportunities we face, and a calling to take action.
- Empower young people with the training, mentoring, and support needed to thrive as global citizens, leaders, and change agents in the 21st century.
- Mobilize young people locally and globally across issues, geography, and all lines of difference, unleashing the collaborative power of our generation.

http://www.fouryearsgo.org/
TAKE A STAND.
CHANGE THE COURSE OF HISTORY.

Humanity’s current path is leading to a future no one wants, and it could soon be too late to change course. We have the technology and know-how to change our direction – all that’s missing is the collective will to get it done. You can help generate that will by making your own personal commitment, enrolling others, and taking action.

Jungle Mamas

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Here's a very interesting program

Even though I wanted a natural childbirth and had a birthplan and thought I had it all figured out that I could do it, mind over matter, my body did not co-operate, and after 40 hours of labour the doctor told me "Yes!" When I said thru my tears "Am I going to have to have a c-section?" 

Women used to die during childbirth, it was very common. Today with all the knowledge available and hospitals, the risk is much lower. But imagine living in the jungle, where everything is natural, but perhaps there is no clean water, or because of encroaching pollution from outsiders or all the other elements that hinder education in these matters. Perhaps the elders haven't been able to pass on their knowledge.  I can see where a program like this would be very helpful as long as the women can retain there heritage and value but keep themselves and their children healthy and alive.

Jungle Mamas 

http://www.pachamama.org/jungle-mamas/ 

Purpose and Vision

The purpose of the Jungle Mamas Program is to empower indigenous women and their communities, to ensure safe birthing and the health and well-being of the Achuar people. We view empowerment of Achuar women as the unifying element to ensure success on joint projects and to build the capacity to become self-sustaining.

We consciously build into all our initiatives the opportunity for women’s leadership to emerge.

Our main focus to date has been saving lives of mothers and babies by teaching prevention, recognition and response to pregnancy and birth emergencies.

We have done this by addressing the urgent issues of maternal deaths, infant morbidity and family planning, as well as broader family and community health concerns.

Background

“We used to think we HAD to go into the jungle alone to birth our babies. Now, thanks to Jungle Mamas we know there’s a better, safer way.”
— Achuar participant trained as birth attendant

One of the most persistent and prevalent development issues globally is reducing maternal mortality and morbidity.

The women and communities of the Amazonian rainforest also face these challenges. This situation is directly related to the undervaluing of women and girls’ contributions to society and their lower social status.

 Read more here  http://www.pachamama.org/jungle-mamas/

Contact Jungle Mamas

Margaret Love, margaret@pachamama.org, 510.558.0994

 http://www.pachamama.org
The Pachamama Alliance

Help the Huichol People Save their Sacred Lands

Help the Huichol People Protect there Sacred Lands
http://www.pachamama.org/news/general-news/2011/01/05/huichol-mexico-international-support/

http://www.culturalsurvival.org/take-action/mexico-stop-mining-protect-sacred-sites

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iRlno_KO1U&feature=player_embedded Share this!! Help Spread the Word and help the Huichol People of Mexico protect their Sacred Lands

Listen to internet radio with Brenda Norrell on Blog Talk Radio

http://www.culturalsurvival.org/take-action/mexico/model-letter

http://www.culturalsurvival.org/take-action/mexico/stop-mining-protect-sacred-sites

The First Majestic Silver Company http://www.firstmajestic.com/s/Home.aspfrom Canada is threatening the Sacred Lands of the Huichol people. If they lose their Sacred Lands they feel this is the extermination of them.

They are asking the Canadians that if you respect your lands please respect ours.

The Huichol People perform a Sacred Ceremony on their lands where they pray for the balance of the world. They feel that this Ceremony is critically important to all.

http://www.culturalsurvival.org/take-action/mexico/youth-alert

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huichol
The Huichol or Wixáritari are an indigenous ethnic group of western central Mexico, living in the Sierra Madre Occidental range in the Mexican states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Zacatecas, and Durango. They are best known to the larger world as the Huichol, however, they refer to themselves as Wixáritari ("the people") in their native Huichol language. The adjectival form of Wixáritari and name for their own language is Wixárika.