Jane Goodall only wants one thing

When I caught up with Jane Goodall in 2019, she was calling on consumers and businesses to make responsible choices and protect the natural world.

Now she is telling people something much more simple: vote.

The celebrated primatologist thinks governments around the globe are not working hard enough to combat climate change. And in a year when more than 40 countries — including the United States, India and South Africa — will be electing their leaders, Goodall is telling anyone who will listen that the health of Earth itself is on the ballot.

“Half of the population of the planet is going to be voting,” she said on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos last week. “This year could be the most consequential voting year in terms of the fate of our planet.”

As my colleague Manuela Andreoni wrote last week, the leaders elected this year will face consequential choices on energy policy, deforestation and emissions reductions. In the United States, Republicans are planning to undo environmental regulations if former president Donald J. Trump wins re-election. In Mexico, the favorite to win the presidency in June is Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist who is now mayor of Mexico City and has vowed to take action to reduce emissions.

Goodall noted that the outcomes of national elections can have profound and immediate impacts. She pointed to Brazil, where two years ago, voters ousted the far-right leader, Jair Bolsonaro, and brought back President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Overnight, Lula abandoned Bolsonaro’s laissez faire approach to environmental regulation and redoubled efforts to protect the Amazon rainforest.

Similar swings in policy will reverberate around the world as people go to the polls in the months to come, Goodall said: “Every vote matters, more this year than perhaps any time in history.”

‘The wealthy are being hit’

Goodall refrained from endorsing specific candidates.

But she believes that as extreme weather batters every corner of the globe, more voters were coming to understand that climate policies matter.

“When climate change began to make itself known, it was Bangladesh and the poorer countries that were suffering,” she said. “Now the wealthy are being hit. The industrialized countries are being hit where it hurts them economically.”

In the United States alone last year, there were 28 storms, wildfires or other disasters that each cost at least $1 billion or more in damages, my colleague Christopher Flavelle reported this month.

“There are floods in New York, floods in Britain, floods in several parts of Europe, unprecedented heat waves killing people in France,” Goodall told me. “It has changed.”

Yet in what is expected to be a tight race between President Biden and Trump, climate is not one of the dominant issues of the campaign. Inasmuch as it is a factor, it is often invoked by activists who believe the Biden administration is not doing enough to curb emissions, or by Trump with promises to expand oil and gas drilling.

Goodall also expressed hope that companies could do more to reduce emissions. Just as voters might respond to climate crises at the polls, she said corporations might begin funneling their lobbying dollars toward candidates who prioritized climate issues.

“I’m hoping that because companies are being hit economically, some of them will think, ‘Well, we better put a bit more money into the right politicians,’” she said.

‘An all of the above moment’

Goodall, who turns 90 in a few months, was in Davos talking up her efforts to educate young people about the plight of the natural world — and to bend the ear of the policymakers and C.E.O.s who sought her out for selfies.

Elections, she said, matter to the degree that they help preserve the natural world.

“The ecosystem is this tapestry of interconnected plants and animals, and each single one has a role to play,” she said. “When a species becomes extinct, it’s like pulling a thread. And if enough threads are pulled, the tapestry hangs in tatters. The ecosystem will collapse.”

Goodall, who spent decades living in the jungle studying chimpanzees, is not dogmatic in her approach to fighting climate change.

“We need the technology,” she said. “We need transfer to renewable energy. We need to stop subsidizing fossil fuel companies. We must think about human population with its cattle. It’s an all-of-the-above moment.”

But she said those policies will only be enacted by leaders who appreciate the gravity of the crises facing planet Earth.

“We’ve got to get the message out there for people to understand, and then they’ll vote in the right way,” she said. “Then they’ll understand how important it is for their children, and their children’s children.”

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Sending again for those who didn’t see this but are interested and haven’t yet registered! https://landing.pachamama.org/gathering There will be a pull-down menu there with my name, so our Pachamama folks can register you at “my virtual table”!

We are at that time of year of harvest and celebration even despite the hardships and stresses we have all experienced in our Mother Earth being insulted by policies to promote further drilling, by the rolling back of clean water and air policies, the evisceration of the EPA, serious encroachments on social, political and economic injustice and by the profound disregard for sentient life over these past several years.

Despite and because of all of this, we have doubled-down in our commitment to set things aright, and one of our ways of doing that, and gaining sustenance from other, like-minded, like-hearted people, is our relationship to each other of course and with the Pachamama Alliance who has been championing the cause of indigenous people in the Amazon Rainforest, the Rainforest itself, and justice of every sort across the planet.

Please watch this inspiring, 1-minute video: https://pachamama.wistia.com/medias/qgcg0db4di

And then register for our Virtual Luncheon this year right here—I’d love to have you. https://landing.pachamama.org/gathering

Because this year’s gathering is virtual, not just in NYC, I am inviting people who wouldn’t otherwise be able to attend, for an even bigger, more inclusive & Global turnout.

Positive Influences: Pachamama Alliance & The Tibet House – A Better World

And needless to say, I hope everyone receiving this has voted or is poised to. We need a landslide!

If you would, please send me an email to let me know if you’ve signed up to attend.

Looking forward to seeing you soon!

Mitchell

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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” Nelson Mandela

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” Jimi Hendrix

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Richard Greenwood and his friend Simon Harrington 12 years ago travelled to the Ecuadorian rainforest to plant over 5000 saplings.

HRH Prince Frederick von Saxe-Lauenberg GCSL, FIIPS(Lon.) shares this wonderful environmental outreach.
He has been recently appointed Honorary Patron of the prestigious Earth Focus Foundation based in Geneva and the video will be part of a presentation we will be making at COP26 in Glasgow next year Covid-19 permitting. Otherwise we will do it virtually. The Prince wants to show my appreciation to Paul Carruthers for the work he has done with this video.

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Listen to “Many Mini Miami Meet-Ups Go Global” on Spreaker.

by Cristiane Roget, Sr. Correspondent – AdAvenueGroup – Forbes – France.

Miami/FL Join Compact Modular Eco Homes – Co-Modeco.com EatUp Events – @EatUp.events and MiaPods in celebration of World Rainforest Day – Int’l Day of the Tropics – Make Music Miami – Fete de la Musique with global pop-up gatherings sanctioned by the United Nations to be Streamed live to a Million ‘friends’ and opt in unique ‘subscribers’.

If you are unable to attend the Many Mini Gatherings are to be LIVE STREAMED:
Sunday- June 21 4pm + 11pm -Art-Appatha and The New Yorker Boutique Hotel
Monday- June 22 4pm + 11pm Center For Sub Tropical Affairs- Brickell Restaurants
Sunday – June 28 11am to 3pm Mia Pods – joins Co-Modeco.com – Pompano Beach

June 21- Sunday-Allapattah Historic Neighborhood
1pm-4pm
“Art-Appattah” NW 28th Street & NW 7th Avenue (next to Las Rosas) 33127
Iris Tattoo Art Mural Debut -A Verdant Jungle w Endangered Species
Nature Walk About – Neighborhood Cleanup -Scavenger Hunt –
New Yorker Cafe with Complimentary Patisserie by Master Baker- Johann Tremor
r.s.v.p. eat@artbasil.org

7pm -11:30pm (After Party)
the New Yorker Hotel 6500 Biscayne Blvd – MiMo 33138
La Fete de Musique Continues
Piece de Resistance mini Film Festival ‘Films So Real They Feel Like a Revolution’
by Giamarco Allesandri – Sine Qua Non Film -London
Music Performances – Celebrated DJ’s
Featured DJ:DJ GNO @gnouniverse

Sponsored Signature Cocktails by Hendricks Gin and Grant & Williams Pass Around “Amuse Bouche” by Master Baker Johann Tremor. Gourmet Coffee Service by ‘Oro’ de Puerto Rico, “taste the Sunshine”. $10 donation – 501c3 -RSVP a must – emailme@douglashardin.com or info@co-modeco.com

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June 22 – Monday -The Center For SubTropical Affairs -Ironside
https://thenewtropic.com/miami-center-subtropical-affairs/
11am to 4pm. The Center for Subtropical Affairs 7145 NW 1st Ct, Miami, FL 33150
“A meander through a secret garden does the body & soul good”
Join the conversation :
University of Miami (RSMAS)
Miami On Sight Sustainable Fashion –
Jennife Sclafani – New Life Institute & Sustainable Trunk Show
Akyumen Industries (AI – ‘Phones From the Future’
Aalto HyperBaric Oxygen Clinic- Breathe with Derrick Miles
Optimal Health & Wellness – Nutritional Logevity – New Life Institute.
Dr Tina Miranda- The importance of Tele Medicine
Green Growers – Unforgettable Events – Unparraelled Space.
In A PC World How to Endure – Adabt – Evolve
http://www.cstamiami.org

5PM – 7:30PM
Walk & Grub & EatUp.events – ArtBasil.org
Brickell area Participating Restaurants & Eateries
Delectable – Delightful- Dig in
IG: @eatup.events
https://www.walkandgrub.com
Ride Public Transportation it is FREE!

Production for the entire program is being provided by South Florida’s top drawer studios that include Novavillan on Twitch TV – PAPERWATER – Half Full – Dev Knight – David Amadi -JB Productions – Eddie estevez – Armando mesa and sound stylist Dante. Good News Broadcast is Media Partner- Commemorating International Day of Peace. Watch for their award winning replay live on
Tune in 10PM EST June 21-22-28
https://www.twitch.tv/paperwater
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June 28-29 Sunday & Monday 11AM – 3PM Each day
BY INVITATION ONLY – Champagne Press Reception –
The World’s first ‘Home Store’! 9 Showmodels –
Imagined Living for the 21st Century
Compact Modular Eco Homes on Display
Pompano Beach- Fl 33069 – RSVP a Must -310-220-9118

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TIMES SO REAL , THEY FEEL LIKE A REVOLUTION
In The Aftermath Of B.C. * Environmental Activists Re – Build P.C. * Relations , Advocacy and Health Intelligence – to the Beat of Our Times- Sunday June 21 – Monday – June 22 & Sunday – June 28

* BC before covid
*PC post covid

by Sr. Correspondent Cristiane Roget , AdAvenueGroup/Forbes France

Miami, Fl/ What better way to move on from the three-month global “time out” than celebrating World Rainforest Day, International Day of the Tropics and Make Music Miami in association with Fete de la Musique ?
PRODUCERS – PARTICIPANTS Book ended between the third and fourth week in June, EatUp.events Inc., ReallyCoolLandscapes, MiaPods of Pompano Beach and Compact Modular Eco Homes (Co-Modeco) are joined by social networks and community activists to meet the new needs of those around them with a Jungle and endangered species Iris Artist Mural ‘Reveal’.
Sunday June 21 – Pass by from 1pm to 4pm in the Las Rosas – Co-Modeco – Laguna – Daily’s Plaza on NW 28th Street & NW 7th Avenue. Art-Appatah Mural Debut by Iris Tattoo –
Many mutual aid groups have sprung up for three day’s of Mini Many Gatherings to Be Stream Live to A Million More. With the specter of unemployment and escalating availability of health care and affordable sustainable housing ad hoc groups have formed to help build a better planet for all.
EatUp Events, ArtBasil, Iris Tattoo Artists, Chef Johann Tremore of the New Yorker Boutique Hotel and Pastisserie , Walk & Grub, the Pacific Rim Business Council , PaperWater Productions an ad hoc collective of ‘creatives’ are producing throughout the Southland ‘Many Mini Meet & Greets’.
Organizers have volunteered to provide marketing, press and promotion for independently owned businesses and sole proprietors who are facing an insecure and challenging future.
The media campaign and Many Mini Meet & Greets were underwritten, in part, by the ‘phone from the future’ Akyumen Industries (AI) smart phone + high intensity projector combo. Guests are also celebrating the Grand Opening of Aalto HyperBaric Oxygen Clinic’s in Beverly Hills/Century City with an established and life changing destination in Margate. 1-888-303-HBOT (4268) www.aaltohyperbaric.com

“The schedule is fluid as this city wide collaboration grows and evolves almost daily. Though all inclusive gatherings, guests must adhere to physical distancing protocols”, says respected impresario, producer and performing artist Douglas Quartese – Hardin. “The Guest lists, with regrets , must be strictly adhered with caution is still de rigueur. On that note we are not completely checking out on Life under a cloud of gloom, doom and imposed isolation”.
MEDIA MEDIA PARTNERS Mini Many Gatherings is slated to coincide with a global launch of Akyumen smart phones with an evolutionary projector feature. according to Aasim Saied, tech guru and founder of Akyumen, “In a time when society has become almost entirely dependent on digital output for social engagement and over 10 years in rigorous research and development, the fact that Akyumen’s proprietary technology is finally available for market is nothing short of prescient!” “Point Akyumen’s Projector Phone at any wall and project a movie with one click of button on high resolution.” “In a new era of physical distancing Akyumen’s real time visual assets elevates a high tech novelty into a welcome social imperative,” says Victor Roman an early adapter and financial wizard.
Mini Media Partners will reach millions with live streams on Twitch.tv/novavillan and VSN.network (https://www.vsnnetwork.com).
The Live Stream Link is: https://bit.ly/2zutyl4
NovaVillan the nom de plume of Nova Laura Villanueva who is currently authoring a book on ‘video game building’ and teaches AI and Robotics at some of New York’s most prestigious institutions of learning, Kim Calhoun of IBM TV will be one of many celebrated online hosts joined by Miriam Campos, 3rd in line for Maxim Magazine’s 2020 Cover Girl. Kenneth Springer of @IrisTattoo Art’s with 365 thousand “friends” are awaiting an invitation to view the live stream. Francois Huynh’s , Founder of AdAvenueGroup/Forbes France will be launching Many Mini press campaigns utilizing strategic alliances with Agility, Cision, Meltwater news aggrigators. AdAvenueGroup can boast 1.8 million news writers, influencers and bloggers on their downline. All this press and media visibility serves as a boom for sponsors, underwriters and partners who are reinventing themselves in a volatile and fluid economy.
Also jumping into the fray is spokes model Lisa Sussman. As a Woman of Achievement US Ambassador she is working on a local to global mission to create solutions in sustainable housing. Lisa will be covering “Many Mini Meet & Greets” as Editor in Chief of WOA Magazine and International Director of UCI Bahamas.
Says Kenneth Springer Founder of Iris Tattoo Art of Wynwood and Buenos Aires, “Even though each Many Mini Gathering adheres to the mandate of “distancing”, people are social beings and these events offer a welcome respite for pent up , shack wacky South Floridians”.
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310-220-9118
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info@co-modeco.com
786-865-3978

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New York, New York (May 14, 2013) – Launching exclusively in North America this fall, Lavazza – Italy’s Favorite Coffee – debuts a distinct line of four specialty blends: Gran Aroma, Classico, Gran Selezione, and Perfetto.

At the heart of Lavazza’s story is a single family’s passion for coffee. Beginning with Luigi Lavazza, in 1895, four generations of the Lavazza family have devoted themselves to continuous innovation, creation and sharing of authentically Italian espresso and coffee experiences.

Ennio Ranaboldo, CEO of Lavazza North America, says, “Lavazza has placed a strong focus on this launch in the U.S. and Canada, two growth markets of strategic importance for us. Using our specific procurement, roasting and blending expertise in Italy, and with the help of massive consumer research and testing in North America, we have started this line of truly outstanding blends that deliver on superior flavor expectations.”

The new line consists of beans from a variety of carefully selected origins, blended and roasted with dedicated processes, to result in a range of flavor intensity and taste profiles:

• Gran Aroma: Medium roast, smooth & aromatic, with citrusy notes
• Classico: Medium roast, rich & full-bodied, with hints of dried fruit
• Gran Selezione (100% Rainforest Alliance certified coffee): Dark roast, intense and chocolaty
• Perfetto: Espresso roast, dark and velvety with a lingering caramel finish

The new packaging – unique in design, shape and materials – embodies the core value, and promise to the coffee lover, of the Lavazza brand: “Italian passion in every cup”. With an easy opening/easy closing feature, it ensures unmatched quality and constant freshness in every bag.

Lavazza’s specialty coffee blends will be available nationally, in September 2013. (SRP: $9.99 / 12oz pack)

Let our passion be your pleasure!

For more information about Lavazza, please visit: http://www.lavazza.us

About Lavazza
Lavazza, founded in Turin, Italy, in 1895, has been family-owned and managed since its inception. Today, Lavazza is Italy’s favorite coffee, one of the leading brands in Europe, the sixth largest roaster in the world and a global provider of espresso, coffee and single-serve systems for the Home and Out-of-Home markets. Its North American headquarters are based in New York City.

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www.ecofest.org Launched as an environmental event where people would get information, get involved, find products, learn about services and be entertained by people who care about the environment, ECOFEST started as a visionary effort for a better world. 24 years later it is still going strong supporting environmental causes and issues. ECOFEST is a cultural and educational environmental festival, free to the public, that is organized and produced by the West Side Cultural Center in New York. In its 24 year track record, ECOFEST has developed an unequaled base of public and private sector support and is a mainstay on the New York City calendar of events, bringing thousands of people to the historic NY locations including Central Park, Lincoln Center, The Intrepid Air, Sea and Space Museum, and now at the Solar 1 Space on the East River.

Museum. ECOFEST and its participants benefit from publicity, promotions and extensive advertising, and have always been generously covered by local and national media.

A major focus of ECOFEST is conservation of our natural resources and innovative alternative-energy technologies. This year’s ECOFEST will again feature the SEOTO (Sources of Energy Other Than Oil) Alternative Fuels Display which demonstrates a wide variety of alternative-energy vehicles – ranging from prototypes of solar cars to electric, natural-gas, hybrid, fuel cell and ethanol vehicles already in use by private businesses and many New York City and New York State Agencies. The vehicles stay on display with exciting demonstrations and activities scheduled throughout the day.

In addition to the SEOTO Display, ECOFEST regular features include the ECOFASHION SHOW on the World Solar Stage and the ECOFEST ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE with renowned experts. The ECOFASHION show presents collections made of 100% organic and recycled material and the Conference offers free seminars where key environmental issues are discussed.

Through dynamic exhibits, stimulating entertainment and celebrity performers and speakers ECOFEST fosters public awareness about opportunities for environmental change. It spurs people to take the initiative in making their homes, businesses and communities more ecologically advanced and environmentally sound, while encouraging education, inspiration, activism, membership and volunteering.

Throughout the years ECOFEST has had the support of major environmental organizations such as the New York Zoological Society, The Audubon Society, the United Nations Environmental Program, Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, The Natural Resources Defense Council, Rainforest Alliance, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the Council on the Environment. Major corporations and banks, such as General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Volvo, Toyota Motors, Lexus, Nissan, Brita, AT&T, IBM, BFI, Tom’s of Maine, Chase, International Paper; utilities and key government agencies, including the New York City Transit/MTA, NYC DOT, NYCDEP, Consolidated Edison, New York Power Authority, and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey provide support for ECOFEST. The presence of all these enlightened organizations from the public and private sectors are brought together at ECOFEST to offer thousands of New Yorkers a unique opportunity to learn of their environmental message.

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