The Importance of Biodiversity in Restoring Planetary Health

Start: 2025-08-27 12:00:00 UTC Pacific Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-07:00)

A link to attend this virtual event will be emailed upon RSVP

The Buen Vivir campaign includes a monthly series of talks on global social and climate justice. “Buen Vivir” is the most common translation for the indigenous Quechua concept of Sumak Kawsay, life lived in harmony with nature and community. While it is sometimes translated into English as A Good Life, Buen Vivir relates to a deeper understanding of how humankind, and the impacts of our lives, affect the planet and each other.

Our August 2025 Buen Vivir Speaker will be Paul Morris CERP, M.Sc.

With over 30 years of expertise in ecology, botany, ecosystem restoration, and regenerative farming, Paul is a seasoned professional dedicated to preserving and restoring our planet's natural ecosystems. As a Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner (CERP) with the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER). His focus recently has been running Ecosystem Restoration Training in the Yucatan and with the Soil Food Web program across N America. His project Planet Healers works to help people understand and restore soil health in every community.

The Buen Vivir campaign includes a monthly series of talks on global social and climate justice. “Buen Vivir” is the most common translation for the indigenous Quechua concept of Sumak Kawsay, life lived in harmony with nature and community. While it is sometimes translated into English as A Good Life, Buen Vivir relates to a deeper understanding of how humankind, and the impacts of our lives, affect the planet and each other.

The monthly talk series will feature expert speakers in facilitated discussion addressing Buen Vivir issues affecting the world’s working populations. Speakers will alternate from global south and global north regions bringing together the voices of the most affected and those who benefit, connecting the dots of our impact. By illuminating and linking the effects of continuing unjust extractivism on the lives, livelihoods and resource-rich physical lands of global south peoples, and discussing the many opportunities to address the impacts, we hope to position the social justice issue clearly at the center of the climate justice conversation in Turtle Island and beyond.

The Buen Vivir campaign includes a monthly series of talks on global social and climate justice. “Buen Vivir” is the most common translation for the indigenous Quechua concept of Sumak Kawsay, life lived in harmony with nature and community. While it is sometimes translated into English as A Good Life, Buen Vivir relates to a deeper understanding of how humankind, and the impacts of our lives, affect the planet and each other.