Public Meeting: Nicola Peel – Amazon Activist and Solutionologist

Afri

Nicola Peel

Amazon Activist and Solutionologist

Venue: the Teacher’s Club, Dublin

Date:  Monday, August 13th  

Time: 7.30pm

(Admission free, donations welcomed)

Nicola Peel is an award winning environmentalist, filmmaker, speaker and solutionist. Nicola has been working in the Ecuadorian Amazon for 18 years on a number of environmental and social projects. Finding solutions to oil spills with fungi, building rainwater systems for indigenous people suffering from contamination due to the oil industry, training farmers in agroforestry to prevent the slash and burn of tropical rain forests and cleaning the beaches of tons of plastic, turning rubbish into a resource.

Nicola’s focus has been to find practical solutions to respond to those in need who are suffering due to resource extraction, poverty and climate change. 

She believes that ‘nature is our greatest teacher’ and during her presentation she will give examples on some of the solutions found in Nature.

During her visit to Ireland Nicola will be speaking in:

CETA, Fancy Socks and Corporate Power

Afri

Afri’s focus on An Gorta Mór is about looking at causes and consequences and, especially at its relevance for today.  The ‘Great Hunger’ had many causes, including colonialism, blind allegiance to laissez faire economics and loss of biodiversity leading to over-dependence on one variety of potato.  These issues remain totally relevant today as, for example, ten large profit-driven corporations control the vast majority of the food we eat.  It is in this context that Afri has been campaigning to highlight serious concerns around the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA).  Not only is this deal about further promotion of intensive agriculture, but most worryingly of all, it includes the toxic ‘Investor Court System’.  This short film outlines some of the issues involved.