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Researchers from academic and non-academic communities explore together the many aspects of clam gardens constructed by coastal First Nations of British Columbia (Canada) and Native Americans of Washington State and Alaska (USA) Clam gardens are made by constructing rock walls at the low tide line along the edges of bays and inlets, transforming naturally sloping beaches or rocky shorelines into productive, level beach terraces. Image: Google Earth – Text: The Clam Garden Network Clam gardens are ancient intertidal features constructed by coastal First Nations of British Columbia (Canada) and Native Americans of Washington State and Alaska (USA). The Clam Garden Network is a diverse community of Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge holders including academics, community members, researchers, and resource managers from British Columbia, Washington State, and Alaska. Together, we celebrate, promote, and seek to uphold the cultural and ecological importance of clam gardens and traditional seafood management. Context Clam gardens enhance the production of culturally important seafoods and have been a part of Indigenous food systems for at least 4,000 years. Today, Indigenous Peoples throughout the Pacific Northwest are reclaiming clam garden construction, management, and related cultural practices to enhance food security and sovereignty, support and assert rights and title in coastal and ocean spaces, and revive ancestral teachings and practices. Clam gardens and other culturally important beaches have a legacy as places of learning. While out on the shoreline together, elders, youth, and other community members reflect on teachings, observations and stories about marine systems, cultural values, cosmology, economics, and the importance of family. Method The Clam Garden Network embraces different ways of knowing, shares ideas, and uses various research approaches, tools, and data to build knowledge about people and intertidal resources. We celebrate, promote and uphold clam gardens because they are a focal point to advance Indigenous rights and governance, intergenerational knowledge, and food security in the face of climate change. Benefits Our goals are to: build solidarity and cooperation across people, communities and disciplines; support clam garden restoration; stimulate conversation and learning that challenge predominantly Western ways of doing science and resource management; and work in ways that respect Indigenous community selfdetermination and resurgence. Nicole Smith, independent archaeologist, Victoria, B.C, and Jennifer Silver, University of GuelphThis text has first been published by BRIDGES in a special brochure. BRIDGES in a member of The Earth-Humanity Coalition. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER To stay up to date with our projects and the development of the EHC Read more articles

Even before the beginning of the International Decade of Science for Sustainable Development, the World Academy of Art and Science adopted a program of sciences for sustainable development. The World Academy of Art and Science organizes a series of webinars under the title WAAS Talks The EHC-WAAS Program includes two series of webinars, six conferences, a number of articles and reports, and four platforms in science and technology for cooperation between the Global North and the Global South. Its implementation is based on a transdisciplinary science model. Webinars The first series of webinars within the EHC-WAAS Program started in June 2023 and two events were held by the end of 2023. In 2024, three additional webinars within this series have been held: WAAS Talks on Science for Human Security: Natural Geoengineering Methods for Cooling the Planet, on February 28, 2024; WAAS Talks on Science for Human Security: Artificial Intelligence, on October 17, 2024; WAAS Talks on Science for Human Security: Measuring Sustainability, on December 4, 2024. The series will be continued with the webinars focused on: Big Science with Accelerators; Nanomaterials; Climate Change; Critical Zone Science; Fission Nuclear Energy; Fusion Nuclear Energy; Radiation Therapy; Multilateralism; Multiculturalism; Well-Being Economy; Doughnut Economics; Sustainable Cities; Cultural Architecture. Conferences Three conferences are already planned. The World Conference on Sustainable Cities, to be held on June 26–27, 2025 in Athens, Greece. The primary objectives of the event are: to discuss the importance of urban sustainability and the concept of sustainable cities; to highlight the current financing gaps in the transition to sustainable cities; to explore the innovative financing mechanisms and strategies to bridge these gaps; to share the relevant best successful case studies and practices in the field from around the world; to facilitate dialogues among the interested stakeholders, including researchers, urban planners, community leaders, policy-makers, and investors. The target audience of the event comprises these stakeholders as well as governments and international institutions involved in solving the environment and sustainability problems. A result of the Conference should be the Athens Declaration on Sustainable Cities. The World Conference on Science and Art for Sustainability, to be held on September 22–25, 2025 in Belgrade, Serbia. The objectives of the event are: to listen to the distinguished speakers; to induce fruitful interactions among them; to deduce from all that some conclusions on sustainable, secure, and peaceful development to be presented to various policy-makers and other science and art stakeholders at the local, national, regional, and global scales. A result of the Conference should be the Belgrade Declaration on Science and Art for Sustainability, Security, and Peace. The World Conference on Big Science with Accelerators: Basic Sciences and High Technologies, to be organized in the second quarter of 2026 or 2027 in Beijing, China, by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The speakers at the event would come from large global, regional, and national scientific and educational organizations operating in the fields of science with charged particle accelerators and accelerator technologies. The event would include a section on education in these fields, and a large industrial exhibition involving companies from all around the world experienced in development and application of accelerator technologies. All future events will be announced here. Nebojša Nešković, Vice President for Science and Technology, World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS); Full Member, The Club of Rome; Member, Steering Committee, The Earth-Humanity Coalition SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER To stay up to date with our projects and the development of the EHC Read more articles

Food systems transformations in South America: insights from a transdisciplinary process rooted in Uruguay Cover of the final report of the “Knowledge on the table” research Between 2019-21, the South American Resilience and Sustainability Studies Institute (SARAS) in Uruguay, gathered a transdisciplinary international community of natural and social scientists, humanities scholars, artists and multiple stakeholders to codesign food systems transformation. Saberes sobre la mesa (knowledge on the table) engaged Uruguayan policymakers, government officials, food producers, the service sector (chefs), soup kitchens, other civil organizations, and consumers. Context Latin America is the largest net food exporting region in the world. The continent’s food systems significantly contribute to global climate change and are at the core of many crucial global issues such as food security, nutrition, endemic poverty, land use change, loss of biological and cultural diversity and national identities. Uruguay shares many of the socialecological challenges and risks that are characteristic of the larger region. Method The project organised transdisciplinary working groups to represent and reflect on the prominent problems in the region: fisheries, the farming export industry, and the emergence of agroecology. It then developed nine projects. Four transdisciplinary projects focused on bottom-up processes of innovation in the sustainable production, distribution and/or consumption of food. Four interdisciplinary projects which targeted decision makers, researchers and scholars. Each communicated information on the social-ecological footprints of Uruguay’s global trade flow of food, and on the feasibility of circular economy. The last project was a book on the history of local recipes and the place of local food culture in national identity. Benefit Saberes sobre la mesa built a collaborative network comprised of academics, several ministries and municipal governments, the media, agricultural producers’ organisations, and civil society groups to produce the knowledge necessary to help address the significant challenges in Uruguay listed above. The final report of this project can be downloaded from the Zenodo virtual repository platform. Jorge Marcone, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Chair of Advisory Board of SARAS This text has first been published by BRIDGES in a special brochure. BRIDGES in a member of The Earth-Humanity Coalition. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER To stay up to date with our projects and the development of the EHC Read more articles