Peter Lumsdaine – Earth Repair in War Torn Areas

Business-Organization: Tree of Life Education Project Center (Port Hadlock), Veterans for Peace nuclear disarmament speakers bureau, Washington PSR Nuclear Weapons Abolition Task Force

After completing his resource science degree at UC Davis and helping to co-found the Davis Appropriate Technology Group with professor Isao Fujimoto and others, Peter Lumsdaine was employed for some years on wind energy, energy conservation and recycling-education projects but shifted increasingly into working for non-profit NGOs focused on environmental protection/justice and peacemaking, including ECOSLO, Global Exchange and the Resource Center for Nonviolence.

This work has taken Peter repeatedly into to resource conflict zones on indigenous land in the US (Standing Rock, Pine Ridge, Oak Flat, as well as military-occupied indigenous land in Nevada and California) and into military resource conflict zones in several areas of Mexico, in the Philippines, in US-occupied Iraq, as well as to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Korea and Jordan. It has also taken him, again and again, into the security zones of the US military/industrial/corporate complex, from Cape Canaveral to the Seattle WTO, and thence into the cell-blocks of the American jail/prison system. Peter has given more than 100 invited talks, lectures, workshops and non-digital slide shows with photos from his journeys across the US and has spoken on the program of large gatherings in Mexico and Japan. Peter currently serves on Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility (WPSR)’s task force on Nuclear Weapons Abolition, as well as on a national PSR committee, and is part of the national Veterans for Peace nuclear disarmament campaign (Golden Rule sailboat) speakers bureau.

Much of Peter’s work in recent years builds upon his recognition that a key part of 21st century Earth protection & restorative work needs to be focused on educating people about the escalating ecological/human societal impacts of rapidly accelerating electronic technologies (computer industry, robotics, Artificial Intelligence) and alerting people to set protective boundaries around these Earth-threatening technologies while there is still time.

Port Hadlock, WA
United States