Conversations With The Earth

CWE  is an indigenous-led multimedia initiative that amplifies indigenous voices in the global discourse on ecological and cultural challenges facing the planet, including climate change, Conversations with the Earth (CWE) is a way of listening closely to traditional custodians of the world's biocultural diversity in order to formulate viable global responses. CWE's opening conversation brings Indigenous Voices on Climate Change to convey local experiences of climate change.

CWE premiered its first multimedia exhibit on climate change at the National Museum of Denmark and Klimaforum 09, at the watershed 15th Conference of the Parties meeting (COP15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen in December 2009. CWE participation in COP15 was covered by numerous international news outlets including Reuters, ABC News, CNN, TV Today (India), Television Española (Spain), Channel 4 News (UK), ZDF (Germany), and France Deux TV.

In 2010 CWE has brought Indigenous voices to the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia; 10th International Festival of Film and Video of Indigenous Peoples in Quito, Ecuador; the 10th International Society for Ethnobiology Congress in Tofino, British Columbia, Canada; the Governors' Global Climate Summit III in California; and UNFCCC COP16 in Cancun, Mexico. Prior to COP 16, the Spanish version of the mobile exhibit toured local communities in 10 Mexican states.