{"id":3586,"date":"2025-11-21T07:19:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beinitiative.com\/?page_id=3586"},"modified":"2026-03-07T00:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T00:50:43","slug":"we-remember-being-earth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/beinitiative.com\/fr\/campaigns\/we-remember-being-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Nous nous souvenons d'avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 la Terre"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Roots for Resilience<\/span><\/h4>
Roots for Resilience is an urban agriculture initiative launched by BEI in 2024. Based at the Maloca Community Garden at York University, the initiative brings together Black and Brown youth, children, and families through weekly educational workshops, shared meals, and opportunities to build community. Roots for Resilience creates space for people to reconnect with land and food, strengthen wellbeing, and experience the physical and emotional benefits of spending time in nature.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Join us in the fight to protect nature and the people.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Fund the Campaign<\/span><\/h4>
Our success is thanks to the dedication, hard work, and financial support of people just like you. Donate to help fund the We Remember Being Earth campaign<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Take Action<\/span><\/h2>
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Post your testimonial of what nature represents to you<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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We Remember<\/span> Being Earth<\/span><\/span><\/h2><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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What does \u201cWe Remember Being Earth\u201d mean?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Across much of the Western world, Black communities are highly urbanized. As a result, many of us have been disconnected from direct contact with the natural world. Yet across our ancient cultures, all living beings, trees, animals, land, and water, were understood as sacred. Our traditional philosophies did not place humans above nature, but within it. We were never meant to be its dominators; we are part of it. We are one with the Earth.<\/p>

We Remember Being Earth<\/strong> is an invitation to return to that knowing. It reminds us that we are inseparable from the planet and from one another. If the Earth is harmed, we are harmed. If it is cared for, we are restored. This campaign calls for a renewed relationship with the natural world, one rooted in care, reciprocity, and belonging, where we nurture the environment and are, in turn, nurtured by it.<\/p>

This is a message carried forward from our ancestors. And it is a message we share openly with all people and communities who recognize that we are Earth, and that our futures are deeply intertwined<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Earth is not something we manage from the outside, but something we belong to.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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What are the initiatives in this campaign?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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To date, the primary initiative advancing the message of this campaign is Roots for Resilience<\/strong>, BEI\u2019s urban agriculture initiative based at the Maloca Community Garden at York University. Through this work, the campaign\u2019s vision is translated into practice, reconnecting Black and Brown communities with land, food, and nature through shared learning, care, and collective presence.<\/p>\n

Watch a short film on the 2025 season of the initiative below:<\/p>\n\n

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