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Living Earth News

Living Earth facilitates workshops on the North Slope, Alaska as part of the Polar Pairs Programme

As part of the ongoing Polar Pairs Programme, linking schools in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and North Slope, Alaska, Living Earth coordinated workshops on the North Slope entitled Meet-U Meet-Me, facilitated by two community artists from Scotland and aided by Alistair Thomson, an art teacher from Alford Academy, Aberdeenshire, one of the school involved in the exchange. The aim of the workshops was to explore themes related to self-image and identity through the medium of the arts.

Two groups of students took part in these workshops, which was then followed by a two-day teacher workshop attended by 19 teachers from across the North Slope. Read the full report on the workshops here Read the article about the workshops on Page 2 of the Arctic Sounder Newspaper here Find out more about the Polar Pairs Programme here

With thanks to ECHO for contributing funding for these workshops

For more information about this programme contact Katherine May

Living Earth to speak at Conference on "Business and Biodiversity“ in Bonn, Germany

Watch three short films about initiatives supported by Living Earth Uganda's Urban Livelihoods Project

The Tin Man of Lira

Gayaza

Nansana

With special thanks to Dominick Reuter and Leah Garvin for producing the films

Find out more about the project here

Living Earth organises Business and Biodiversity Workshop for the Latin American Congress on Natural Protected Areas

	Living Earth Foundation in association with Fundacion Habitat & Desarrollo organised a workshop on ‘The Role of the Business Sector on the Biodiversity Agenda of the Region’ at the Latin American Congress on Natural Protected Areas in Bariloche (Patagonia Argentina) in September 2007.
Bariloche (Patagonia Argentina)	The aim was to promote the strengthening of natural protected areas through complementing business projects with the conservation needs of the Region. The Workshop had the support of Repsol YPF, Banco Galicia and the British Argentine Chamber of Commerce BACC
Sponsored by:	With support from

View the Press Release for the Workshop in English or in Portuguese

View the full programme for the workshop in Portuguese here

View the full report on the outcomes of the workshop in Spanish here

For more information please contact Javier Alvarez

Find out more about the Congress here

Launch of Good Practice Guidance for Mining and Biodiversity

The Good Practice Guidance for Mining and Biodiversity has been published as part of an extensive dialogue between International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN).

The guide provides an informative, accessible and highly practical reference source on biodiversity which can be used by mining companies at all stages of their operations, from initial exploration to mine closure planning and
implementation.

Living Earth Foundation and the ICMM organised an event to launch this publication at the IUCN Latin American Congress on Natural Protected Areas in the Hotel Panamericano – Salón Guardería, Bariloche - Argentina

View the Press Release here

BBC Sport visits Living Earth Uganda projects

Find out more about the visit and the Urban Livelihoods Project here

Living Earth welcomes visitors from Sakhalin Island

“I didn’t really think that it was possible for oil and gas companies to cooperate with local government and universities to improve the quality of life of communities; now I know that it can happen..”

Local government official of Sakhalin

Download the full report on the learning visit here
Read the report in Russian here

Find out more about Living Earth's work in Sakhalin here

LEF submits paper to the Conference on Sustainable Development at Sakhalin State University (5th-7th June 2007)

Living Earth were asked to write a paper entitled 'Putting Sustainable Development into Practice: Emerging Lessons from the Field' for the interregional conference on the 'Problems of Sustainable Development of the Region at the Current Stage, held at Sakhalin State University (SSU), between 5th -7th June 2007. The paper was distributed to all the delegates for discussion during the conference.

View the full paper here

Living Earth provides input to the Shell Sustainability Report 2006

For the second successive year Living Earth's Roger Hammond has been a member of the external review committee of the Shell Sustainability Report. Roger Hammond was one of six individuals who reviewed this year's report in terms of whether it contains the right information about the full range of issues that Shell stakeholders care most about and secondly on how well it reflects understanding of stakeholders’ expectations.

View the findings of the External Review Committee here

External Review Committee for the Shell Sustainability Report 2006

View the 2006 Shell Sustainability Report here

Find out more about Living Earth's partnership with Shell here

New Publication

Read a detailed case study about the partnership between Living Earth and Shell, entitled The Development of a Strategic Relationship in the new IPIECA publication Partnerships in the Oil and Gas Industry

Download the case study here

You can view the full publication on the IPIECA Website here