Centre for Local Prosperity - PUGWASH DECLARATION 2018
Channel: Local Prosperity
Date: 2020-02-04

In 2017, the Centre for Local Prosperity held the first Climate Change Retreat at the Thinkers Lodge, Pugwash, Nova Scotia. A group of Thinkers gathered to discuss perhaps the greatest existential threat to humanity of our time: climate change.

A film and outcomes document was issued, and the Centre signed A Memorandum of Understanding with Project Drawdown, a global organisation that shares the most viable solutions to climate change with the world. (www.drawdown.org) 
 
In 2018, the Centre held the second Climate Change Retreat at the Thinkers Lodge. The goal for the 2018 Thinkers - to draft a Pugwash Declaration for the future, and explore the potential for a Drawdown Hub connected to related regional activities. This is the first Pugwash Declaration on the Climate Crisis drafted September 30, 2018 and read by Phil Ferraro and Dayle Eshelby.
 
Produced by Centre for Local Prosperity
Directed by Andrea Vandenboer 
Production Company - The Visual Blueprint Productions
Production & Crew: Andrea Vandenboer – Director, Director of Cinematography, Camera Operator, Sound Recordist, Editor; Donna Burton – Camera Operator; Nikita Kondrashev - Music

Special thanks to:
Dayle Eshelby
Project Drawdown
Teresa Kewachuk 

The Centre for Local Prosperity gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the following:
Thinkers Lodge 
Cyrus Eaton Foundation 
Basic Spirit Pewter
The Village of Pugwash

© 2018 Centre for Local Prosperity

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The Centre for Local Prosperity initiates conversations intended to encourage communities to begin a shift toward an economy that is properly scaled for the place. It is our hope that such a dialogue will result in real action for change by creating a new climate for change.

The Centre for Local Prosperity takes pride in working alongside community groups, businesses and governments to identify opportunities and assess the risks in making the shift to a new economy. We are prepared to hold workshops, conferences, and targeted discussions on topics as far ranging as local currency, climate-change, restorative business modeling, living wage, affordable and efficient housing, local energy production, food & community hubs, entrepreneurial start-ups, transportation, arts & culture and social and economic justice.

Over time, the Centre envisions the crafting of a new narrative: a language that invites a balance between a culture of economic development and the preservation and restoration of natural systems.

History demonstrates that vision without enlightened action is destined to lie fallow. Our hope is to discover an older grace and intelligence that binds us together in ways we could never have imagined. Once discovered it becomes the new social, economic and political narrative that restores the commons, elevates the notion of fairness, and sets a higher standard by which all progress is to be measured.