Jennifer Menke

Sacred Contract is a nonprofit coalition consisting of inter-cultural activists working together to spearhead a new model of land self-ownership in which ecosystems own themselves. The coalition comprises of the Center for Democratic & Environmental Rights, Regenerative Earth, and the Centre for Ethical Land Transition, which helped devise the transition process; the Indigenous and non-Indigenous guardians that act in service to the self-owned land; and the ecosystems that are transitioning from humans’ ownership to self-ownership. Sacred Contract aims to cultivate a new common sense around our relationship to nature - reminding us that our needs are contingent on the needs of the land. Our process operates across multiple layers of change (legal, cultural, relational and material) - with our legal strategy acting as a critical gateway into a deeper process of restoring the relationship between people and place.