27. Earthcare is Peoplecare. Milmer Martinez Vergara of Plant with Purpose

Earthkeepers: A Circlewood Podcast on Creation Care and Spirituality

In this episode we’ll have a conversation with Milmer Martinez Vergara, a Program Officer with the international development organization Plant with Purpose. Milmer works with the organization’s Latin American projects to incorporate conservation biology into their development work with the poor. According to him, protecting natural ecosystems also has the effect of creating resilient communities.
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Guest: Milmer Martinez Vergara - Regional Director with Plant with Purpose

Mentions:

Gregor Mendel - Augustinian monk who experimented with inherited traits in plants and is now considered the father of genetics.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Colombian novelist and winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature
agroforestry - UN definition and as practiced by Plant with Purpose
savings groups -how they work
Jacques Cousteau and Cousteau Society
Anna’s hummingbird

Keywords: community development, poverty, ecotourism, sustainable agriculture, native species, low impact farming, ecological development, Columbia, FARC, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia.

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