BALLE

The latest issue of the highly recommended Rachel’s Precautionary Reporter leads off with an interesting note about the new Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship, which was released on July 6 as part of the proceedings of the Indigenous Environmental Network’s 14th annual Protecting Mother Earth Conference in Bemidji, Minnesota.

The statement is a 21st century take on the same Great Law of the Haudenosaunee that inspired our own name and company philosophy. It’s a good one for sure, but as Rachel’s Peter Montague observes, the really interesting thing here is that with the Bemidji statement, we now have a fairly complete framework of ideas that everybody can coalesce around in the name of a saner future.

As someone who goes to too many conferences and is disappointed more often than not, the BALLE conference that was held in Burlington this weekend exceeded all of my expectations. This is an organization that is full of hope and possibility, passion and commitment, a movement at a time where few pursuits rise to that level.

We hosted a dinner for the speakers at the BALLE conference
here in Burlington. People were bussed out to Jeffrey's house. We were hoping to build a big bonfire and talk about
everyone's efforts to move the world forward, and it rained and rained and... So we all sat around in the house rapping on...

The v-log is Jeffrey's talk to the group, encouraging people to let us at 7th Gen know how we can get better and better working with people in the BALLE - local economies movement...

It was a a very rich time...

BALLE, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, is having its annual three day conference in Burlington, Vermont - Thursday, Friday and Saturday. We, at Seventh Generation are very supportive all the work BALLE is doing to make the world a better place. And, we encourage all conference participants to use our blog to engage the world in a dialogue about change...

Thanks.

Gregor