The Surui Cultural Map showcases the Amazonian Surui tribe's vision of their forest, territory, and traditional history. Surui youth documented ancestral sites, including their 1969 first contact

The Surui Cultural Map showcases the Amazonian Surui tribe's vision of their forest, territory, and traditional history. Surui youth documented ancestral sites, including their 1969 first contact and 1970s battles with colonists, along with places of interest like jaguar sightings. To preserve their forest and livelihood, the Surui utilize Open Data Kit software on Android smartphones to measure carbon and monitor illegal logging, engaging with the Carbon Credit marketplace.

Google Earth Outreach provides nonprofits and public benefit organizations with resources to visualize their causes and share their stories with a global audience through Google Earth & Maps.

Christian. Pastor. Transgender. Join us to hear from Dr. Paula Stone Williams about her experience journeying from male to female and from despair to joy.

As a father of three,

Christian. Pastor. Transgender. Join us to hear from Dr. Paula Stone Williams about her experience journeying from male to female and from despair to joy.

As a father of three, married to a wonderful woman and holding several prominent jobs within the Christian community, Dr. Paula Stone Williams made the life-changing decision to physically transition from male to female at the age of sixty. Almost instantly, her power and influence in the evangelical world disappeared and her family had to grapple with intense feelings of loss and confusion.

Feeling utterly alone and at a loss after being expelled from the evangelical churches she had once spearheaded, Paula struggled to create a new safe space for herself where she could reconcile her faith, her identity, and her desire to be a leader. Much to her surprise, the key to her new career as a woman came with a deeper awareness of the inequities she had overlooked before her transition. Where her opinions were once celebrated and amplified, now she found herself sidelined and ignored. New questions emerged. Why are women’s opinions devalued in favor of men’s? Why does love and intimacy feel so different? And was it possible to find a new spirituality in her own image?

In her book As a Woman, Paula pulled back the curtain on her transition journey and shed light on the gendered landscape that impacts many in the LGBTQ+ community. Williams shares her lived experience of both genders and offers a truly unique perspective on the universal struggle to understand what it means to be male, female, and simply, human.

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Author photo by Rebecca Stumpf.

SPEAKERS

Paula Stone Williams
Pastor, Left Hand Church (Longmont, CO); Author, As a Woman

Michelle Meow
Producer and Host, "The Michelle Meow Show," KBCW and Podcast; Member, Commonwealth Club Board of Governors; Twitter @msmichellemeow—Co-Host

John Zipperer
Producer and Host, Week to Week Political Roundtable; Vice President of Media & Editorial, The Commonwealth Club—Co-Host

speeches at the Club.

Shawn Hayes, an American falconry ambassador, dedicates his life to raptors. This film chronicles his journey, exploring deep partnerships with wild creatures and places, and his pioneering role

Shawn Hayes, an American falconry ambassador, dedicates his life to raptors. This film chronicles his journey, exploring deep partnerships with wild creatures and places, and his pioneering role in falconry for people of color. His work takes him globally, bridging tradition and conservation.

From Patagonia, this film underscores their mission: to use their business, investments, and voice to address the threat of extinction facing all life on Earth. Host a screening: pat.ag/GameHawkerScreening. Subscribe: pat.ag/Subscribe. Find more at Patagonia's Official Site and Stories.

Humpback whales engage in "kelping," a global phenomenon where they roll in seaweed. This behavior is thought to be both play and a form of skincare, potentially removing parasites and bacteria to

Humpback whales engage in "kelping," a global phenomenon where they roll in seaweed. This behavior is thought to be both play and a form of skincare, potentially removing parasites and bacteria to improve health. A recent study, partly based on social media observations, documented kelping across populations from the North Atlantic to Australia. This fascinating behavior was featured in Endangered Earth Online (Nov. 16, 2032).

The Center for Biological Diversity is a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to securing a future for all species by protecting lands, waters, and climate. Learn more and take action at biologicaldiversity.org.

Future of Sustainability 2020: How can we harness the radical disruption presented by the COVID-19 crisis to drive a truly sustainable, just and resilient future?

This webinar took place

Future of Sustainability 2020: How can we harness the radical disruption presented by the COVID-19 crisis to drive a truly sustainable, just and resilient future?

This webinar took place on 8 July 2020.

The COVID-19 crisis is having a devastating impact – both in terms of lives lost and economic disruption. At Forum for the Future, we believe that it would be tragic to go back to yesterday’s “business-as-usual”; moments of radical disruption like this provide unprecedented opportunities to reinvent the future. We are therefore calling for business, governments, civil society, and communities to seize this moment in helping to deliver a more just, sustainable, and resilient world.

Panelists: Host - Dr Sally Uren, Chief Executive Officer, Forum for the Future

Co-host - Hannah Pathak, Director of UK and Europe, Forum for the Future

Leslie Johnston, Chief Executive Officer, Laudes Foundation

Nick Cliffe, Deputy Challenge Director, Innovate UK

Keith Writer, Supply Director, Bettys and Taylors of Harrogate

Rebecca Marmot, Chief Sustainability Officer, Unilever