TZEPORAH BERMAN: Promoting Environmental Leadership
November 18, 2009 - 12:40 am
The devastating rate of deforestation in British Columbia spurred TZEPORAH BERMAN into action. A plan to pursue law and academics was quickly dropped for environmental action and in 2000 Berman co-founded ForestEthics. This not-for-profit organization aims to promote environmental leadership in industry, governments and local communities. Their campaigns have inspired change in the environmental practices of corporations like Dell, Home Depot, Wal-Mart and Victoria’s Secret. But it doesn’t end there. Berman’s passion and dedication to the environment are boundless and continue to propel the efforts of ForestEthics.
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Living in the Central African forests, the Baka hunter gatherers formed an organization called Okani (meaning “rise up” in Baka) to help train other communities in filming and story-telling techniques. This first film from the Baka People in Eastern Cameroon shows how they are coping with the impacts of climate change and the swift transformations of their habitat. This film is an Okani-Insight http://www.insightshare.org production, part of Conversations with Earth Initiative http://www.conversationsearth.org . It is one of several experiences around the world in which indigenous communities are using videos to voice their concerns. These projects were funded by UNDP’s human rights programmes through the Global Environmental Facility Small Grants Programme http://sgp.undp.org/