Pachamama Alliance's Annual Luncheon

"The more digital we get, the more ritual we need." - Lynne Twist, Co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance.

Pictured are Pamela Lanier and Manari Ushigua, Sápara Spiritual Leader; Nov. 14, 2019

We at Sonoma Sustainable Tourism had the pleasure of attending the Pachamama Alliance's annual San Francisco Luncheon. More than 1400 supporters were in attendance, along with the founders, and the executive director of the Fundación Pachamama Ecuador, Belén Paez.

Most impressive, perhaps, was the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative, a multi-year project to secure permanent protected status of the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon Headwaters —which will include indigenous management of the key social, economic, and political aspects of the area and include a complete ban on all industrial-level extractive activities.

Pachamama Alliance is active with over 20 indigenous cultures in central and southern Ecuador and northern Peru where they have operated for the past two decades, to protect, educate, and create a global effort towards keeping the rainforest alive and flourishing.

The Drawdown Initiative is another program they're spearheading, through a series of in-person workshops and an online course currently available on their website. The goal is to implement 100 solutions not just to slow climate change, but to reverse it by 2050.

Saving the Amazon headwaters is something we can't afford not to do. Sign the Sacred Headwaters Declaration here.