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2020 People for Earth’s 5th Anniversary Conference: Without Life, Where is the Future? People for Earth’s Fifth Anniversary Conference 2020Without Life, Where is the Future?Host : People for Earth Foundation, Korean Thomas Berry AssociationDAY 1 l Online Special Speech - “Human Being and Life” John B. Cobb Jr. (Professor Emeritus of ... 2020/10/29
2019 PLZ Forum for Ecozoic Era_Day2-3: Session 2-5 & DMZ Tour On September 22, the last day of the forum, about 50 participants visited Hwacheon's Chilsung Observatory, one of the DMZ ecological trails. This eco-excursion, led by Jae-chul Seo from Green Korea, was a great opportunity to see and feel the nature of DMZ's conservation values and the rights of nature while looking directly at the DMZ’s nature healed by nature itself in the area of the Civilian Control Line. 2019/10/28
2019 PLZ Forum for Ecozoic Era_Day1: Keynote Speech & Session 1 The forum itself was held over two days at KT&G Sangsangmadang Stay in Chuncheon, beginning on September 20. The event was opened by remarks by Kumsil Kang, executive director of People for Earth, a welcoming speech by Moon Soon Choi, governor of Gangwon-do, and congratulatory speeches by Irina Bokova, the former Director-General of UNESCO, and Byung-ok Ahn, chief of the National Climate and Environment Council. These were followed by the keynote speech by Klaus Bosselmann, professor at the University of Auckland, entitled “Earth Governance: The State as Environmental Trustee.” 2019/10/25
2019 PLZ Forum for Ecozoic Era_Pre-session: Dialogue on Earth Jurisprudence This year's PLZ Forum for Ecozoic Era centered on challenges and responses to the acknowledged climate crisis and provided a platform for academic discussions of post-transition systems of governance and alternative ways of living, which existing legal systems have not covered. Before the forum began, a pre-forum session was held at Yujae, People for Earth's office in Seoul, on Thursday, September 19. Maria Sanchez, coordinator of the UN Harmony with Nature Programme, was invited to be the main speaker at the event, which was entitled "Dialogue on Earth Jurisprudence." 2019/10/25
2018 International Conference for Ecozoic Culture_The Roundup Session. New Leadership in East Asia and International Cooperation The Roundup Session Paju DeclarationThe Roundup Session consisted of Group Discussions and Talks under the theme of New Leadership in East Asia and International Cooperation, followed by the proclamation of Paju Declaration. To conclude the conferen... 2019/01/22
2018 International Conference for Ecozoic Culture_The Special Session. Peace on the Korean Peninsula and Ecological Vision The Special Session consisted of Presentations and Group Discussions under the theme of Peace on the Korean Peninsula and Ecological Vision.Case Study PresentationDMZ to PLZ (PLZ Festival: Peace and Life Zone)Mijung Im (Hansei University)Topic Presen... 2019/01/22
2018 International Conference for Ecozoic Culture_Session 6. Future Tasks of Eco-Culture and Continued Education The Session Six hosted by Dong Joon Lee (representative of Incheon Culture Center) started with Keijiro Suga (Meiji University)’s presentation under the theme of Rewilding: From the Coast of Fukushima. Suga said that rewilding means restricting human... 2019/01/22
2018 International Conference for Ecozoic Culture_Session 5. Restructuring of Science and Technology and the Society The Session Five hosted by Kiwon Song, professor of Yonsei University started with the presentation by Philip Clayton (Claremont School of Theology). In his presentation under the theme of Redefining the Relationship of Nature and Science, he explain... 2019/01/22
2018 International Conference for Ecozoic Culture_Session 4. Searching for Alternative Ecological Economic Systems The first presentation of the Session Four was by Gunna Jung, professor of Hanshin University Economics Department, under the theme of Transition to Ecological Civilization and the Role of Social Economy. Jung stressed that the twenty first century h... 2019/01/22
2018 International Conference for Ecozoic Culture_Session 3. Our Efforts for Systematic Transition of Civilization The Session Three on the second day of the conference, hosted by Wang-Bae Kim, consisted of special talks by David Korten and Tiejun Wen. Korten, director of the Living Economics Forum, gave a talk under the theme of “Transition to an Ecological Civi... 2019/01/22

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