News & Press

1st May 2018 News

We Feed The World – Dine With Us at Petersham Nurseries

The Gaia Foundation will be joined by Greenhouse PR and a roll call of famous photographers at Petersham Nurseries on May 17th to raise funds for the We Feed the… Read More

25th April 2018 News

A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet – Raj Patel in London on 15th May!


A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things –
 A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet with Raj Patel With an introduction by Liz Hosken from… Read More

25th April 2018 News

“Tune in Tuesdays” with Gaia and 42 Acres Shoreditch

This Spring-Summer we’re presenting a trilogy of unique, lunch-time talks in partnership with 42 Acres Shoreditch. Gaia’s founding Director Liz Hosken will kick things off on Tuesday 15th May with… Read More

20th April 2018 News

African Earth Jurisprudence graduate speaking at the United Nations

Method Gundidza, from Zimbabwe, one of the first graduates from Gaia’s training for African Earth Jurisprudence practitioners, joins international panelists at the 8th Interactive Dialogue of the UN General Assembly… Read More

20th April 2018 News

Meet the people building alternatives to mining in Cajamarca, Colombia

Gaia’s Hannibal Rhoades and Benjamin Hitchcock Auciello meet the activist, ethnobotanist and business leader strengthening life-sustaining alternatives to destructive, conflict-ridden mining in Colombia. Originally published in Red Pepper Magazine. On the 26th March… Read More

12th April 2018 News

Indigenous Autonomy: New decree recognises autonomy of indigenous communities across Colombian Amazon

In the most important step for Amazon indigenous rights in 30 years, through a new decree, Colombia has recognised the autonomy of indigenous communities across the Amazon.   On Tuesday… Read More

10th April 2018 News

“Rescuing awe for nature”: a personal journey into Spiritual Ecology

Rafaela Graça Scheiffer, from Brazil – a valued intern for Gaia’s Earth Jurisprudence programme – has studied both biological and holistic sciences. She shares her own journey into discovering the… Read More

6th April 2018 News

Colombia’s Supreme Court makes historic ruling on the Rights of the Amazon

In response to a legal writ from a group of 25 children and young people, accompanied by Dejusticia, Colombia’s Supreme Court has issued a landmark ruling that calls on the Government… Read More

29th March 2018 News

Celebrating the true treasures of Cajamarca – the Colombian town that stopped a mega-mine

The small town of Piedras became the first community in Colombia to hold a public referendum on the fate of a mining project – and later banned what would have been the… Read More

21st March 2018 News

Press Release: delegation from Cajamarca, community that stopped world’s biggest gold mine, visits UK

A year ago this rural community used direct democracy to stop what would have been the world’s largest gold mine. Their example has inspired 50 Colombian communities to challenge corporate… Read More

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