Thursday, August 10, 5:30 PM EDT (reception) 7:00 PM EDT (presentation)

How do we find hope when events and news are of oppression and repression and the global environmental nakba (catastrophe)? Our earth faces climate change, habitat destruction, pollution, invasive species, overexploitation, rampant inequality, and wars/conflict. How are we to ensure sustainable human and natural communities against all odds? Palestine is the Western part of the Fertile Crescent where humans first developed agriculture. This is why this part of Western Asia was the cradle of civilizations and monotheistic religions. Can this geographic spot generate modules of sustainability in the bleakest of conditions? Can these models be applicable to other countries? These and other questions are addressed.

Mazin Qumsiyeh is founder and volunteer director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS) at Bethlehem University (http://palestinenature.org). He oversaw a number of projects ranging from formulating the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan to empowerment projects with farmers, women, and children that benefitted tens of thousands. He is laureate of the Paul K. Feyerabend Foundation award Prof. Mazin B. Qumsiyeh: courageous spinner of solidarity in and with Palestine! (pkfeyerabend.org) and the Takreem award Takreem | A better image of the Arab world, among others. See also http://qumsiyeh.org

Qumsiyeh is accompanied by his wife Jessie Chang, a co-founder and co-director and volunteer director at the institute. Both donated their money and are full time volunteers at the institute. The event helps to raise awareness and garner support of all types (money, expertise, networking, volunteers etc) to our institute and environmental/sustainability work in Palestine.

Please register for this FREE program. No fee for admission but donations appreciated. All donations will go to the Palestine Museum of Natural History (PMNH).

This is a hybrid event with an in person reception beginning at 5:30 in the Lothrop Auditorium.

Join us on YouTube or on Zoom Meeting ID: 873 0259 4495

More info including one tap mobile dial in numbers: Sustainability & Biodiversity Conservation with Mazin Qumsiyeh Tickets, Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 5:30 PM | Eventbrite

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