Y on Earth recently published their latest book, titled Our Biggest Deal: Pathways to Planetary Prosperity. The book is a resource featuring guest essays, including from Home Planet Fund Executive Director Dilafruz Khonikboyeva, and other global leaders.

Below is a feature of Dilafruz’s chapter:

From September 2022 to our public launching on Earth Day 2024, Home Planet Fund has taken shape with one clear goal: tackle the polycrisis with speed, scale, and healing.

Nature is and always has been the original technical solution.

Indigenous cultures place weight upon oral tradition. Knowledge is passed from generation to generation through storytelling. There is no need to write essays or laws about their relationship with nature, because it is lived, breathed, and embodied through a foundational understanding of the “Original Instructions.”

This cultural practice means that historically, Indigenous knowledge is not recognized, simply because it isn’t typically written down. In the western world, a published researcher or a lawmaker is taken seriously, while an Indigenous elder carrying knowledge that has been passed down for millennia is too often not.

Thousands of years of Indigenous knowledge on solutions for mitigating and adapting to the climate crisis are not being utilized, simply because they are carried and communicated differently.

Learn more about Y on Earth and get your copy of Our Biggest Deal here.