The 2023 DDMarkham UnityNet GTA Plan your Youth Peace Garden Ceremony

Theme: How to design and build a productive food garden that maximizes #nutrition and maximizes the potential to #protect and #restore #Biodiversity within your own #bioregion and #watershed(s).

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Please note that Monday, May 22nd, 2023 is:

a.k.a. The International Day for Biological Diversity

https://www.un.org/en/observances/biological-diversity-day

A United Nations–sanctioned international day for the promotion of biodiversity issues.

It is currently held on May 22. The International Day for Biological Diversity falls within the scope of the UN Post-2015 Development Agenda's Sustainable Development Goals.

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Please also note that although the time of this event is listed as starting at 11:00 AM EDT, this will only be for our LOCAL events in the Greater Toronto Area (#GTA) / Greater Tkaronto Bioregion (#GTB).

Other events in other parts of the country or world (different time zones) can start their Youth Peace Garden Planning event and Ceremonies at whatever hour the local residents choose.

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This Hybrid (in-person and virtual) Youth Peace Garden planning event will also be a time for and the members and supporters from the Greater Toronto Area () and the (#GTB) to come together in solidarity and collaboration with many Local, Regional, Provincial, National and International organizations, together all of our local Students and their Parents / Families, and provide them with some guidance as it relates to planning their own Ceremony event(s).

Our purpose is to help Coordinate the Planting of #UnityNet in the City of Markham / York Region and in the Greater Toronto area of Ontario, Canada (in the Greater Tkaronto Bioregion) and to broadcast our #learning to multiple other communities around the world in solidarity with each other, as Human Beings, in support of:

• #CommunityEngagement #PeaceBuilding #Community #Sustainability #NetworkBuilding #Collaboration #Partnerships #CivilSociety #LocalAction #gLocalization #Restoration #Regeneration #CulturalHealing #Health #Equity #PracticumLearning #Reconciliation, #Forgiveness and #gLocalied #WorldPeace

and,

• Local #ClimateAction (achieving #NetZero and #Drawdown gLocally)

We will also go over things like Logistics (Who to invite, Drafting an Invitation Letter and issuing a "Press Release" etc.)

This will be an outdoor event in one of our local Public Parks here in the of in the in the watershed (German Mills Creek sub-watershed, which drains into Lake Ontario, the lowest and last of the North American Great Lakes) in the Great Lakes Basin of the Greater Tkaronto Bioregion -- or #GTB -- in southern Ontario, Canada, North America (Turtle Island).

We will also be inviting our local Council member (Isa Lee) and others in the community like Rotary Markham.

Note: Ada Mackenzie / Saddlecreek Park in the Leitchcroft Area is a large 8-acre park with various shelters and a "splashpad" where we may also be able to do our own local UnityNet GTA Globally Coordinated "Bubble Fun Festival" events in August during our #UnityNet "Community Unity Weeks" (a.k.a. "Indigenous Unity Weeks") on International Youth Day. where we celebrate together in a Hybrid event that is both Local and Global -- through virtual sharing, where each one of us Human Beings in our local communities recognize those around the world who are also gLocalizing the Global Goals through the development of #Partnerships in our own local communities, and where each of us helps to ensure that our own local Humanitarian Entrepreneurs are #Empowered by the members of our INAB Collaboratives, gLocally in our own local #Watersheds and #Bioregions.

Note: It is through events like this one on World Biodiversity Day where we wish to #engage the schools (including the students and and teachers & their families) in a Competition (and related Learning Program) to "Design Your Own Bubble Fun Machine".

Our goal in Drawdown Markham: To have a few working bubble-making machines by August -- created by some entrepreneurial students from some of the local High schools the York Region.

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P.S. The #UnityNet "Community Unity Weeks" (Indigenous Unity Weeks) start on:

Wednesday August 9th, 2023

https://www.un.org/en/observances/indigenous-day

The International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples is observed on 9 August each year to raise awareness and protect the rights of the world's indigenous population. This event also recognizes the achievements and contributions that indigenous people make to improve world issues such as environmental protection.

https://www.unesco.org/en/days/indigenous-people

There are an estimated 476 (370 to 500) million indigenous peoples in the world living across 90 countries.

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Saturday August 12th, 2023

https://www.un.org/en/observances/youth-day

International Youth Day is an awareness day designated by the United Nations. The purpose of the day is to draw attention to a given set of cultural and legal issues surrounding youth.

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#UnityNet "Community Unity Weeks" (Indigenous Unity Weeks) Ends on:

Saturday August 19th, 2023

https://www.un.org/en/observances/humanitarian-day

World Humanitarian Day is an international day dedicated to recognize humanitarian personnel and those who have died working for humanitarian causes.

https://www.worldhumanitarianday.org/

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FYI: Youth Peace Gardens serve several functions, including:

• Serving as "Sacred Spaces" in our local communities where people can gather in Peace, enjoy Nature and "Celebrate our Diversity", discuss Local Solutions to Problems and help to achieve gLocalized Peace through processes of Practical Reconciliation, Forgiveness and Collaboration (as per SDG#17, #Partnerships for the Goals, including #UBUNTU4Business).

• Serving as places for people to understand, through practical hands-on gardening practice, how to produce their own local, nutritious #ClimateSmartFood**

**Ref: The Science for Peace (SfP) CoSWoG Working Group

Public group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/climatesmartfood/

• "Solving the Climate Crisis and Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals One Meal at a Time"

The Science for Peace (CoSWoG) CSF Protocols Discussion Forum:

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12180450/

Energime CSF-DG of the Climate Smart Food (CSF) Consulting Group:

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8487703

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All of the Youth Peace Gardens & Ceremonies that will be planned on this day are intended to be established in the City of Markham / York Region / GTA and are being planted in order to help establish,

- The City of Markham and York Region's first (IN-ABC) Empowerment Network that will assist all of our gLocal #FFHE who live in and are serving the residents of the City of Markham, York Region, the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and the entire Greater Tkaronto Bioregion (GTB).

Note: The GTB is defined as:

• "bounded by the Niagara Escarpment on the west, the Oak Ridges Moraine to the north and east, and Lake Ontario to the south" (Regeneration report, former Toronto Mayor and MP The Honourable David Crombie, 1992)

as well as the establishment of,

- gLocal INAB Collaborative (IN-ABC) Empowerment Networks in ALL local Communities that wish to establish a #Partnership with the City of Markham's gLocal INAB Collaborative (IN-ABC)

The purpose of the IN-ABC is to support:

- All of our gLocal FFHE (construction, maintenance & operational) Teams of young Female & Feminist Humanitarian Entrepreneurs (FFHE) who will work with all of the community partners who are members of the Local and Global IN-ABC Empowerment Networks in order to help establish at least one [1] Local Community Collaborative "Climate Smart" Learning Centre in order to help transition our local communities to become part of:

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note also,

This event is following:

Earth Day, Saturday, April 22, 2023, 11:00 AM

Drumming Ceremonies at City Halls on Earth Day, Saturday April 22nd, 2023 in partnership and support of Indigenous Peoples, worldwide.

Videos:

April 21, 2023 UnityNet UNDRIP Day 2023 EarthDay Drumming at Markham City Hall

April 22, 2023 UnityNet UNDRIP Day 2023 EarthDay Drumming Zoom Call

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and,

- Our last 2022 Tree of Peace and Reconciliation tree planting events that took place at:

, 484 Apple Lane, Mississauga, ON L5J 4T2

Ref:

https://2022-ahiabga-unitynet-abraham-project-treeplanting.eventbrite.com

and,

The , 3141 Wharton Way, Mississauga, ON L4X 2B6

https://2022-ahiabga-unitynet-abraham-proj-treeplanting-sp.eventbrite.com

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and previously,

- Our tree planting event that took place at 62 Hooper Road in Barrie, Ontario on September 15th, 2021

and,

- The Thursday "" Ceremonies and "gathering of solidarity" event in St. James Town Toronto on Earth Day (April 22nd, 2021 at Sunset)

and:

- The event

on: Sunday, June 21, 2020

hosted by: and

and:

- The Toronto Tree of Peace and Reconciliation Campaign & Unity Ceremony

at: The Community garden in St. James Town | 35 Prospect Street | Toronto, ON, Canada

on: Sunday, 24 May 2020

and the original:

- Tree of Peace & Reconciliation Tree Planting with

on: Sunday September 15th, 2019

https://dd-m-tree-of-peace-reconciliation-tree-planting.eventbrite.ca/

Supporting:

https://www.facebook.com/pg/globalunitypandemic/

An international partnership for "Global Unity" (Global Cooperation) in the service of implementing a program of practical glocal holistic, Humanitarian Entrepreneurial education and training (and related regenerative infrastructure) that will allow local populations in every country to acquire the survival skills that they need (based on remote learning and virtual collaboration) and that are most relevant to their individual local needs, as per local considerations, in service of implementing and achieving the SDGs, leaving no-one behind.

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during the "Community Unity Weeks" from Aug 9th - 19th

on World Environment Day, Saturday, August 12, 2023

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Definitions:

https://escarpment.org/

The Niagara Escarpment is a long escarpment, or cuesta, in Canada and the United States that runs predominantly east–west from New York through Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin, and into Illinois. The escarpment is most famous as the cliff over which the Niagara River plunges at Niagara Falls, for which it is named.

https://www.oakridgesmoraine.org/

The Oak Ridges Moraine is one of the most significant landforms in southern Ontario. An ecologically important geological landform in the Mixedwood Plains of south-central Ontario, Canada. The moraine covers a geographic area of 1,900 square kilometres between Caledon and Rice Lake, near Peterborough.

https://greatlakes.guide/watersheds/ontario | http://www.waterkeeper.ca/lake-ontario

Lake Ontario is situated between Lake Erie and the St. Lawrence River and is the only Great Lake that does not border the state of Michigan. It is home to many unique geographical landscapes, the most prominent of which is Niagara Falls. Lake Ontario is the easternmost of the Great Lakes and the smallest in surface area (18,960 km2 ). It has a drainage area of 60,030 km2, an elevation of 75 m, a mean depth of 86 m (max 244 m), length 311 km and width 85 km. It is bounded on the north by Ontario (Canada) and on the south by New York (USA). Water takes about 6 years to flow through Lake Ontario to the St. Lawrence River. Lake Ontario is the most threatened Great Lake.

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/great-lakes

https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/great-lakes-protection/maps.html

The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are are the largest group in a chain of large lakes (including Winnipeg, Athabasca, Great Slave and Great Bear) that lies along the southern boundary of the Canadian Shield. The Great Lakes are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the mid-east region of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River. There are five lakes: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. They are one of the great natural features of the continent and of the Earth. The Great Lakes constitute one of the largest freshwater systems on earth, containing ~20% of the world's surface freshwater. Only the polar ice caps and Lake Baikal in Siberia contain more freshwater than the Great Lakes.

The GTB is, "bounded by the Niagara Escarpment on the west, the Oak Ridges Moraine to the north and east, and Lake Ontario to the south" (Regeneration report, former Toronto Mayor and MP The Honourable David Crombie, 1992).

map c/o Legacy Project (www.legacyproject.org)

Origin: The Don River flows from headwaters on the Oak Ridges Moraine.

Toronto’s Don River Valley is arguably the city’s most distinctive physical feature. As a provider of water, power, sustenance, building materials, and transportation, it has played an important role in the city’s settlement and development. Today, the Lower Valley forms the foundation for one of the most densely populated areas in Canada, outlining as it does the eastern portion of Toronto’s downtown core and radiating residential areas.

The Don River covers an area of approximately 36,000 hectares that stretches almost 38 km in length, flowing south from its headwaters on the Oak Ridges Moraine to the Keating Channel, where it empties into lake Ontario.

The Don River and its deep valley were formed about 12,000 years ago at the end of the Wisconsinan Glaciation. During that glaciation which lasted for 35,000 years, all of Ontario was covered in ice.

As the climate warmed the glaciers began to melt the waterway became home to small groups of nomadic hunters. Human settlement can be traced back as far as 7,000 years ago. Slate tools left behind by the Indigenous Peoples were discovered in 1886 during road building.

Ref: https://donrivervalleypark.ca/about-the-park/history/

The Don River was named by in 1793 after he likened the appearance of its wide river valley to the in Yorkshire, England. The origin of the River Don’s name in England is derived from the name , a goddess of Celtic mythology, supposedly named after the old gaelic word for water.

Before the river was given the name Don, however, it went by a few other names. In 1788, Crown Surveyor Alexander Aiken recorded the name of the river as . This is also the name he used on the first English maps to designate the Don. While the name didn’t stick, Aiken’s lasting legacy is that he later created the first city plan for Toronto.

Simcoe’s wife Elizabeth referred to the river as Wonscoteonoch, a phrase used by the First Nations Peoples to mean "black burnt country", a reference to a forest fire that charred part of the area to the north. While her husband gave the Don its name, Elizabeth Simcoe is responsible for naming Scarborough, Ontario, which she based on Scarborough, England (North Yorkshire). “Wonscotonach” may also refer to the practice of torchlight salmon spearinglikely translates to “burning bright point”.

The Mississauga had a seasonal settlement here, where they fished and hunted the marshlands for muskrat, duck and deer. This settlement fell into disuse as the Mississaugas moved westward to a newly established permanent village at the River Credit.

Most archaeological evidence of the Mississaugas on this site has been destroyed because the river valley has changed dramatically in the years since European settlement, particularly during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when the Lower Don River was straightened and channelized and the huge marsh at its mouth drained and filled.

The river was essential to the Mississaugas as it connected with trail systems that are followed by present day Yonge Street, the gateway north, but the health of the river declined dramatically as a result of Settler "development" (the first dam on the Don River, ca1900 was followed by water power, industry, expressways, pollution, high #impact recreation and more), so much so that in 1969 the environmental group held for the river, which had become so polluted that it supported only the hardiest of fish species.

The Don River connects the following Communities:

Elgin Mills, Hope, Patterson, Yongehurst, Vaughan, Maple, Richmond Hill, Thornhill, Carrville, Richvale, Langstaff, Thornhlea, German Mills, Doncaster, Steeles Corners, North York, Scarborough, East York and downtown Toronto (includive of: Forest Hill, Mount Pleasant, Thorncliffe Park, Flemington Park, Kennedy Park, Leaside, Bennington, Rosedale, North Riverdale, Cabbagetown-south, St. Jamestown, Regent Park, Moss Park & Corktown).

This Drawdown Markham / UnityNet GTA Plan your Youth Peace Garden Ceremony is being co-hosted by in partnership with the international Civil Society organization that is seeking to undertake Life Value Peace Education in the context of LIFE Learning Gardens with the support of the (AHIABGA), globally.

This Hybrid (in-person and virtual) event is being done in support of:

Join the #UnityNet Honey Project to become a "Pollinator Ambassador" and help to protect pollinators in and around all of our cities and communities across Canada and worldwide -- by planting Community "Youth Peace Gardens" in all of our local communities -- so we can #Learn to become more #SelfSufficient and #Resilient and create positive #Impact while also creating #Jobs and #Livelihood in our Local communities.

Please feel free to join:

The Global Unity Network (#UnityNet) network of "beekeepers" ("bee husbandry" teams) who will also develop content and #Educational program that include a series hands-on "projects" for young people and their families to get them accustomed to "Raising and Managing" bees (and their "products" like raw honey, beeswax, propolis and royal jelly), and help to prepare them to become the Leaders of the Future.

Educational programs can be developed with the members of the , and the rest of our #UnityNet members can help to bring these to local schools and local community groups through the local INAB Collaboratives, through the Network, the , the and to deliver things like "after school" programming that can be done with the local (& International) NGOs (like the , the and any others).

Public group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/602616845272810

Professionals Network: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14248575/

Related:

Demonstrate production of Certified, Regenerative "Climate Smart" Honey produced from wildflowers grown on restored landscapes.

Public group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1439511069814092

Professionals Network: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14194639/

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A discussion around helping humanity ACCELERATE the transition from "Homo Confligiere" to "Homo Amore Universalis".

Public group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/187512406468834

Professionals Network: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13974251/

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Allows community members (through the #UnityNet #Empowerment Network) to engage in *dialogue with youth* about *their future Well Being.

Public Network: https://www.facebook.com/groups/627859355327748

Professionals Network: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12708603/

and,

Help Educate and Train the next generation in the "best in class" Regenerative Development Solutions (#RDS) that can be applied in all of our local communities, worldwide.

Public group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/561719935414690

Professionals network: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14103202/

Local #Actions are intended to be done in support of:

and,

UnityNet discussions with the South Markham Food Security Network

Public group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/705850777665015

Professionals Network: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14189065/

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Part of the (#UnityNet) , which is in the (#GTB) of Ontario,

Local Watersheds:

=> The Humber River Watershed in the West, (along with Mimico and Etobicoke Rivers)

=> The Watershed in the Heart of Toronto,

=> The Highland and Watersheds in the East (along with part of the Petticoat River watershed)

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The South Markham Community Food Security Network is a member of:

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In support of:

https://www.un.org/en/observances/biological-diversity-day

A United Nations–sanctioned international day for the promotion of biodiversity issues.

It is currently held on May 22. The International Day for Biological Diversity falls within the scope of the UN Post-2015 Development Agenda's Sustainable Development Goals.

and,

https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/fao-at-cop15-what-comes-now/en

Biodiversity Goals: https://www.cbd.int/gbf/goals/

"The new biodiversity framework for the period 2022–2030 sets out an ambitious plan to implement broad-based #action to bring about a transformation in our societies’ relationship with biodiversity by 2030, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals, and ensure that, by 2050, the shared vision of living in harmony with nature is fulfilled."

Agenda:

11:00 AM Start

11:10 AM - Land Acknowledgement

11:15 AM - Introductory Presentation / Introductions

including:

• Opening Poem
• Comments / Introductions from attending Dignitaries / Guests

11:45 AM - Discuss ALL Drawdown Markham and #UnityNet programs and initiatives and the Network connections in support of Local and Regional #Biodiversity #Action and the #Knowledge and #Skills required by our #Residents for our own local communities to #Benefit from, #Capitalize and #Celebrate our #Diversity as we begin to #Transition our local communities to become part of a #gLocalized #Productive Compassionate Collaborative Regenerative Economy (#CCRE) that aims to Leave No One Behind (#LNOB).

12:15 PM -

12:30 PM - Closing Remarks / Presentation(s)

12:45 PM - Closing Poem

1:00 PM - Adjourn / Casual conversations**

** Includes discussions about how we each can support all of the (UnityNet) members and their plans to establish unique and culturally relevant local Youth Peace Gardens and the infrastructure projects that reflect the local cultures of each country, city, community or (eco)village.

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Climate Change Solutions Education and Training Hub

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DDMarkham/

https://www.meetup.com/Drawdown-Markham/

Drawdown Markham aims to develop a locally relevant program to generate enough activity to create a hub of Drawdown activity in York Region and the GTA.

• We intend on developing partnerships with people, organizations, companies and local governments who are committed to actions that will achieve Drawdown. We help to connect you with other change makers, and galvanize local action with a new sense of optimism and agency. ​

The Drawdown Initiative of the Pachamama Alliance is a program to increase public awareness and engagement in the movement to reverse global warming.

Mission:

To educate and empower our local Community in Markham, Ontario to take Action, with the goal of achieving Drawdown or "net zero" CO2 emissions by 2050 or before by encouraging and facilitating community members and local organizations, institutions and businesses to implement actionable on-the-ground projects that either reduce CO2 emissions or, preferably, actively sequester carbon (and help to put us on a path toward reversing Global Warming).

Vision:

A City where all of the residents, businesses and community organizations in Markham are not only prepared for the consequences of Climate Change, but are also actively doing their part to help achieve Drawdown through local, regional and other actions that help to reduce emissions of and/or sequester carbon and contribute to Climate Action (SDG#13).

Mandate:

Helping to facilitate creation of a Local Community Climate Action Hub in the City of Markham for the purpose of teaching residents about how to take Climate Action at the local level and help to build resilience into their communities.

Action Statement:

Drawdown Markham’s role in Markham is to:

• Enhance multi-stakeholder efforts by promoting partnerships and bridging efforts across sectors in support of taking local (and regional) Climate Action

Drawdown Markham is a working project of Science for Peace CoSWoG: https://scienceforpeace.ca/working-groups/community-sustainability/

A Humanitarian Enterprise and Global Sustainable and Regenerative Development Corporation Supporting and Promoting the local delivery of Open Source Regenerative Climate Smart Infrastructure set up as LIFE Learning Gardens.

Creating a Global Empowerment Network for our ALL of our Members, including the Female and Feminist Humanitarian Entrepreneurs (FFHE) who are helping to implement the various local, Regenerative, "Climate Smart" solutions that are required to achieve a Collaborative Regenerative Economy that Leaves No One Behind.

Public Social Media:

https://www.facebook.com/GlobalUnityBiz/

Professionals Network:

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13979024/

The Global Unity Business Group is a Humanitarian Enterprise and Global Sustainable and Regenerative Development Corporation Supporting and Promoting the local delivery of Open Source Regenerative Climate Smart Infrastructure set up as LIFE Learning Gardens along with a Hybrid Virtual Learning platform that we call the VCN, or #Interchange4Peace.

The Global Unity business group was created in order to formalize the AHIABGA process of Glocalization of the Global Goals, starting with the SDGs, which is being done by the establishment of a Global Unity Network, which (so far) includes a Unity Gardens Network, a Unity Learning Network -- along with many other dedicated Unity Networks.

We are also supporting and working in partnership with the Unity Programmes (Events, Projects and Campaigns) of local Unity Network organizations that have been established around the world that deliver various Projects, Campaigns and Events such as:

• Tree of Peace and Reconciliation tree planting Ceremonies

• Sunlight Spectacle Virtual Edutainment & Shows

• Coordinated International Bubble Fun Festivals

• events

• Tea Diplomacy Initiative events

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Focused on developing the "Model" for and a LOCAL (Greater Toronto Area / Southern Ontario) Network of Regenerative "Climate Smart" Education practitioners and organizations that will assist in and undertake the delivery of practical and useful content for all of the people who are or will become members of the Global Unity Network, with a special focus on Female and Feminist Humanitarian Entrepreneurs (#FFHE) and their supporters, which includes all people who are associated with the Global Unity Network of networks.

Public Network: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2993557734217958/

Professionals Network: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14009882/

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Supporting ALL #UnityNet members and related organizations in the Greater Tkaronto Bioregion (#GTB)

map c/o Legacy Project (www.legacyproject.org)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/EGCDTI/

An organization that is focused on Life value Peace Education.

Our overarching message is Simple: Everybody wants to -- and LOVES to -- collaborate!

Mission: To transform the human mindset, and therefore our relationships, from one that is focused on conflict and competition to one that is focused on peace and cooperation.

We do Education toward Awakening Dreamers, with the goal of affecting changes in our modern culture toward the creation of a 'tipping point' in our collective Culture, such that people fully recognize life value as being above and (far) more important than 'money' value.

WE-Energime-GC-TI is focused on Life Value Peace Education for the purpose of facilitating the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (for ALL countries and people of this Earth, as well as All our relations), leaving no one behind.

We are a movement about JOY -- enjoyment of the things in life that are actually important -- like the "sparkle in people's eyes".

We have a Long line Vision to awaken possibility in other people, make other people powerful, and open up the "Cosmic Laughter" so that we can all get "A's" in Life!

We are inventing something that will light up EVERYONE's life and 'Move the goalposts' by telling STORIES, that engage, fascinate and radiate possibility for a truly better future and encourage direct action within our own communities to make that better future a reality.

What are the WE-Energime-GC T-I Projects?

We create LIFE Learning Gardens. Within these gardens we intend to demonstrate that it is possible that human behavior, through the introduction of more coherent and inclusive ideas, and through the adoption of a holistic, nature-based knowledge-centric vision of the mind, can be "unplugged" and "re-programmed" in such a way that people's lives moving forward can positively effect the changes that are necessary in order to create the better world that we all know is possible.

The goal is human consciousness 2.0, such that human individuals are capable of relating to all living things as if part of us.

A Project of:

The Science for Peace Community Sustainability Working Group (CoSWoG):

https://www.facebook.com/CoSWoG/

A discussion around helping humanity ACCELERATE the transition from "Homo Confligiere" to "Homo Amore Universalis".

Because,

“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” - Abraham Lincoln

Public group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/187512406468834

Professionals Network: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13974251/

Primary Professionals Directory:

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14011707/

Public Facebook group

https://www.facebook.com/Unity-Network-105861365071867

We are Helping People Develop and Implement gLocal Partnerships as a pathway to achieving the Global Goals, Leaving No One Behind.

Our Mission:

The Development of Local partnerships (INAB Collaboratives), as per SDG#17, that are dedicated to the implementation of a Regenerative Economy that Leaves No One Behind in all local communities around the world.

Our Vision:

All local Humanitarian Entrepreneurs and Enterprises in all of the participating local communities in our network achieving success according to the highest potential of their own personal and collective experience.

> INAB Collaboratives are established in all participating local communities in our network according to the Hepta-Matrix Partnership Template by utilizing the AHIABGA Process of Glocalization of the Global Goals.

An Eco-centric alliance for Mainstreaming Biodiversity Action through Ecosystem & plant community Restoration ~ including through the implementation of rural / urban Permaculture techniques that can help humanity end poverty by solving the biodiversity issues.

Connected to the Unity Ecovillage Network (& Ecovillage Centres of Excellence) Leveraging the for twinning communities around the world for tree planting and, especially, for ecosystem restoration.

Supporting the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, 2021-2030: https://www.decadeonrestoration.org

Discussion group: https://tinyurl.com/psb7t9vy

Public group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/805992446728283

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UnityNet Permaculture was created to provide opportunities for the members of UnityNet to get training in Permaculture Design.

We support all of the professionals who are able to teach the fundamentals of Permaculture Design, especially people in Africa & other Marginalized, Local & Indigenous Communities.

Public Discussion group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/410969911221627

Professionals Network: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14091318/

(WhatsApp) Discussion group: (Please #Request to join)

The Global Unity Network (#UnityNet) network of "beekeepers" ("bee husbandry" teams) who will also develop content and #Educational programs that include a series hands-on "projects" for young people and their families to get them accustomed to "Raising and Managing" bees (and their "products" like raw honey, beeswax, propolis and royal jelly), and help to prepare them to become the Leaders of the Future.

Educational programs can be developed with the members of the , and the rest of our #UnityNet members can help to bring these to local schools and local community groups through the local , through the , the , the and the # to deliver things like "after school" programming that can be done with the local (& International) NGOs (like the Boys and Girls Clubs, the Scouts and any others).

Professionals Network: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14248575/

Public group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/602616845272810

Public Network: https://www.facebook.com/groups/627859355327748

UnityNet Youth Peace Gardens allow community members (through the #UnityNet #Empowerment Network) to engage in dialogue with youth about their future Well Being and how they can #empower them by providing opportunities for the youth to meet their own needs and achieve their collective dreams of a Better World for All (Humans and #AllOurRelations). #BW4All

Professionals Network: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12708603

Discussion group: https://tinyurl.com/3pmbudrm

All #UnityNet Youth Peace Garden spaces shall have a *Tree of Peace and Reconciliation* planted, an *Indigenous Unity Flag* flying as well as a *Peace Pole* erected in a conspicuous location with high foot traffic within or next to the garden, symbolizing the hopes and dreams of the entire human family, standing vigil in silent prayer for *peace on earth*.

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(WhatsApp) Discussion group: (Please #Request to join)

With each Youth Peace Garden that we plant globally we are also work on a program to help local communities establish their own local,

"Climate Smart life skills training centers"

Unity Peace Centres are part of the #GlobalUnityNetwork (*#UnityNet*) and are intended to become Focal Points for each regional node of the #UnityLearningNetwork.

Projects start as demonstrations of all five of the Unity Garden solutions, co-located in each #UnityPeaceCentre.

The #UnityNetwork delivers #SDGgLocalization Education and practicum #Training programs in partnership with existing Educational Institutions and organizations. Ensuring that youth have #skills that are necessary to implement #Real-world solutions.

Public group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/936974456908587

Global Professionals network: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14024937/

(WhatsApp) discussion group: (Please #Request to join)

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See also:

https://www.indigenousunityflag.com/

https://blog.indigenousunityflag.com/

https://www.facebook.com/IndigenousFlag/

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See also:

https://www.worldpeace.org/peacepoleproject/

Each Peace Pole bears the message "May Peace Prevail on Earth" in different languages on each of its four or six sides.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_pole

A Peace pole is a monument that displays the message "May Peace Prevail on Earth" in the language of the country where it has been placed, and usually 3 to 13 additional translations.

Home of the proposed "Ecovillage Centre of Excellence" managed by Unity Network Canada*(), as proposed by Joan Kerr from the *Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities* (FBSC).

Public group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/973991833165960

Professionals Network: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14026908/

WhatsApp Discussion group: (Please #Request to join)

Maui Aloha Project aspires to create a sustainable, thriving eco-village on large shared land offering a Healing Center for the Transformational Arts, an inter-generational alternative learning environment for children, an international conference center, performance art studio, educational farming and research cooperative, and all forms of experiments in conscious interaction and communion with nature that are in alignment with responsible paradigms for peaceful living on planet Earth.

Maui Aloha Project (MAP) honors and promotes cultural values while utilizing diversified means to explore paths of transformation of consciousness leading to attainment of a sense of belonging, intrinsic self-worth, and joy for all.

MAP is a learning environment embracing cultural and cognitive diversity and offering programs and processes that cultivate new opportunities for expansion of human potential in cooperation with nature.

MAP is a haven for residents, visitors and the international community, a living entity embodying the spirit of Healing and Transformation and exploring possibilities and new creations for a New Earth.

Maui Aloha Project offers itself as a catalyst for change through integration of body, mind, heart and spirit in sacred communion with nature.

http://mauialohaproject.org/

Focused on developing a Network of Climate Smart Education practitioners and organizations that will assist in and undertake the delivery of practical and useful content for all of the people who are or will become members of the global Unity Gardens Network, with a special focus on FFHE and their supporters.

Created for the purpose of addressing the Global Goals, starting with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, through communication and practical food systems learning.

Supporting:

The Learning Partnership for Global Unity

A multi-country project of the Global Unity Network for Connecting Learning Institutions (starting with Universities and Colleges) and ensuring that they are fully engaged and participating in the Unity Learning Network and the Unity Gardens Network (for the delivery of the Practical Hands-on Learning | Practicum Learning programs in Humanitarian Entrepreneurship for the gLocalized delivery of the various Regenerative "Climate Smart" solutions for achieving the Global Goals).

Public group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/164608325572811

Professionals Network: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12541432/

Open Discussion Group (WhatsApp): (Please #Request to join)

UnityNet public discussion about Regenerative Finance (#ReFi) to support the Community-based business undertakings of UnityNet International (#UNI) and the Global Partnership for Regenerative Development (#GP4RD) that UNI is creating.

Supporting the UnityNet Learning Network and all of the gLocal Cooperative Humanitarian Enterprises designed, built, maintained and operated by Female & Feminist Humanitarian Entrepreneurs (#FFHE), including the Community Unity Garden Learning Centres and the UnityNet Community Hubs, established globally.

Public Network: https://www.facebook.com/groups/742829877012507

Professionals Network: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14191703/

Related:

The UnityNet Finance Network has a mandate to help bring all Financial Institutions & organizations (Ethical, Cooperative Banking, Credit Union & Digital Trust-based Finance service providers) into #UnityNet (our Network of Networks) in order to provide opportunities for Local #FFHE to access Regenerative Finance (#ReFi) for the achievement of the Global Goals, gLocally (one community at a time), with the intention of Leaving No One Behind (#LNOB).

Public Network: https://www.facebook.com/groups/878290126633025

Professionals Network: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14168084/

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Note: Regenerative Finance, or ReFi, is an experiment to create financial incentives to draw down carbon emissions, “regenerate” the environment and ultimately reverse climate change.

https://carbonshot.earth/

THE SUSTAINABLE MARKETPLACE FOR CLIMATE SOLUTIONS

INCENTIVIZING CARBON REMOVAL TO REVERSE CLIMATE CHANGE

Carbonshot is incentivizing planetary scale engagement to restore natural ecosystems and reverse climate change.

We are aligning finance and ecology to remove more carbon than we produce so earth-beings can thrive.

Combine climate change resilience with social and economic co-benefits.

https://x.facebook.com/groups/423324734491314/

Seeking to empower our communities to engage with royal, indigenous and tribal leadership as well as helping local communities to establish Interfaith, Neighborhood Academic and Business Collaboratives (IN-ABCs) that will come together and pledge to support all of the local Humanitarian Entrepreneurs who are gLocalizing the Global Goals -- starting with the Sustainable Development Goals, while also seeking ways to "leave no one behind".

http://bit.ly/andrewnetworks

PARXTC Export Trading Company (USA) develops, influences and coordinates strategic alliance outcomes for tribes, nations, nongovernmental organizations, agencies, businesses, projects, communities of peoples and individuals throughout AfCFTA and globally.

Register as free attendee for updates:

Contact: [email protected] +1-213-274-3675

See also: https://bit.ly/AWJconversations

https://www.fivepointsyouthfoundation.org/

The FPYF is a Los Angeles-based, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works to revitalize communities in south LA that have undergone economic, environmental and social decline.

We are here to change the world. Our programs emphasize neighborhood empowerment, economic development, social entrepreneurship and civic engagement, utilizing concepts of regenerative design and sustainability to enhance and make positive change in the world around us.

Our mission is to sustain, cultivate and self-empower our children, youth and adults. We prioritize those with the greatest need in an effort to inspire and transform change for a collective better future.

We have formed – and are constantly growing – regenerative relationships with agencies, organizations, groups and peoples throughout the global community. We preserve cultures, promote education and encourage wealth creation models at the local level to impact our immediate neighbors, tribes, villages, towns and cities.

A management and consulting group supporting the active deployment of Regenerative 'Climate Smart' Agriculture and Food production systems.

The CSFCG was created with the intention to support the actions of the Science for Peace (SfP) Climate Smart Food sub-Working Group (CSFWG), an assembly of enthusiastic "foodies" who wish to support the actions and projects of the United Nations (FAO and others) in the delivery of the Global Sustainable Development Goals, especially Goal #2 (Zero hunger) and Goal #13 (Climate Action), and specifically on the implementation of the programs for Regenerative Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) in all countries (on a local, regional and worldwide basis), as well as any related programmes from the Private Sector, such as those that are being delivered by the Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture (GACSA) and that are considered to be truly Regenerative, and any/all organizations that are affiliated with and/or are supporting these or similar goals for local, resilient community-based food production and environmental (climate) security (via living soil, landscape and ecosystem restoration).

The Climate Smart Food strategy (and related programme) is all about mobilizing consumers, who can choose to [literally] "put their money where there mouth is" ~ in this case, not just words, but actions [and in the process, help them to understand how they can use their purchasing preferences to build new, Regenerative local economies everywhere -- not just in Southern Ontario, but globally] ~ by using a basket of new social innovations in addition to various technical innovations that help to sequester carbon into soils and support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The CSF Programme is aimed at the 'Certification' of "Climate Smart" Landscapes and the products that grow on them.

The Climate Smart Food "Certification" initiative is primarily focused on the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (global Goals), the Marketing of Regenerative Landscapes and the Development of Markets for food that is grown within holistic carbon-sequestering "Climate Smart Landscapes" where healthy, living soil is the dominant factor in creating "sustainable fertility".

The CoSWoG Climate Smart Food Consulting Group public Network:

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Supporting the Climate Smart Food Consulting Group:

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8487703

We are building the physical and digital structures and innovative business pipelines that will enable the youth of today to begin to launch into a new era of active Glocal Carbon Sequestration during the upcoming UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), as part of a worldwide effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals).

Our goal is the implementation of Glocal SD Solutions infrastructure through the establishment of a cooperative "Tech & Solutions Alliance" of small businesses both here in the Toronto Area (GTA), Ontario, and Canada -- and eventually across North America (Turtle Island) and globally.

Our primary focus is on the deployment of *Regenerative* Infrastructure Solutions that can be implemented locally in all our communities.

The Indigenous Global Unity Network is a network that is intended to bring together all indigenous communities from around the world to contribute to the achievement of a Regenerative (Circular) Economy that Leaves No One Behind (LNOB).

Professionals Network:

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13993563/

Public group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/210151031081588

Administered by:

The International Indigenous Unity Flag (Indigenous Unity Flag)

https://www.indigenousunityflag.com/home

A universal cultural symbol for the perfect world in peace in all its geographical, human, and ecological diversity.

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A special virtual event to take place every year on (UNESCO) World Kiswahili Language Day, July 7th yearly.

A Global Languages project done in recognition that, "indigenous peoples represent the greater part of the world’s cultural diversity, and have created and speak the major share of the world’s almost 7000 languages."

ref: https://en.unesco.org/indigenous-peoples

#UnityNet #GlobalLanguages #UnityLearning #AfricaDiaspora #CultureDiversity #TeaDiplomacy #IndigenousUnity #AITranslationChallenge

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Conversations around processes of Practical Reconciliation with Indigenous peoples through implementation of the UnityNet process of gLocalization of the Global Goals (SDGs) in partnership with members of the Indigenous Global Unity Network. The Goal: Helping to establish a gLocalized Productive Compassionate Collaborative Regenerative Economy (#CCRE) that Leaves No One Behind (#LNOB), through Community Engagement and Hybrid Practicum Learning in Humanitarian Entrepreneurship with #FFHE in Unity Gardens.

Public group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/477963760900265/

Professionals Network: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14161388/

UnityNet International (UNI) would like to encourage all of the members of the gLocal INAB Collaboratives (Interfaith Neighbourhood Academic and Business Collaboratives) to please (generously) donate to our Global Unity Network (UnityNet) campaign to purchase and fly at least one [1] Indigenous Unity Flag at the location (adjacent -- within eyesight) of every one of the Trees of Peace and Reconciliation that will be planted in every local community, around the world.

Website of the International Indigenous Unity Flag (Indigenous Unity Flag):

A universal cultural symbol for the perfect world in peace in all its geographical, human, and ecological diversity.

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When purchasing tickets to this "Abraham Project" Trees of Peace and Reconciliation tree planting ceremony / event on World Environment Day (June 5th, 2022) we encourage all Community Members who attend this event to contribute a small amount of funding -- a Donation -- for the purchase of the flag as well as the flagpole that we wish to erect at the site of the Tree Planting.

Suggested Donation for the Flag (per person): Can $10.00

Suggested Donation for the Flagpole (per person): Can $100.00

Note also:

Cost of a White Pine Tree (min): $10.00 per foot ($40 for 4 ft. tree)

Cost of a Permanent Commemorative Plaque (to be anchored at the base of the tree): prices start around $150

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Kitchen Learning Centres that are intended to complement the various types of productive Community Unity Garden Collaborative Learning Centers.

Places for teaching community members, especially #youth, how to process, cook, market, sell and trade the various types of Regenerative "Climate Smart" Food and related Nutritional and Medicinal and other types of locally produced Regenerative products.

note: "Double-Drawdown" Climate Smart Kitchens are C-S Kitchens that use gasifer stoves that make biochar that eventually goes back into productive use to grow even more Regenerative "Climate Smart" Food.

C-S Kitchens compliment the creation of other local productive Unity Gardens, including:

• Unity (Permaculture) Gardens
• Unity Forests
• Wheel of Life (WoL) Farms (& Farm Schools)
• Climate Smart (SpARK POD) Learning Centres (CSAFT)

Using the tools of:

• Humanitarian Entrepreneurship
• The Two-Eyed Seeing / Etuaptmumk guiding principle for inter-cultural collaboration

Public group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/116617903682198

Professionals Network: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14159235/

(WhatsApp) Discussion group: (Please #Request to join)

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A dedicated #UnityNet discussion (group) about Clean Cookstoves, focusing on gasification and production of biochar in Climate Smart Kitchens.

Public Discussion group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/654256243064865

Professionals Network: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14158265/

(WhatsApp) Discussion group: (Please #Request to join)

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Note: These types of Clean Cookstoves use various types of "wastes" from farm, forest and food production and processing

Host or Publisher Global Unity Business Group