{"id":19946,"date":"2025-11-30T10:25:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/?p=19946"},"modified":"2025-12-02T00:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:35:11","slug":"aloha-world-team-now-holiday-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/30\/aloha-world-team-now-holiday-greetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Aloha! World Team Now Holiday Greetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19931\" src=\"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251126_075544-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251126_075544-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251126_075544-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251126_075544-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251126_075544-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251126_075544-2048x1536.png 2048w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251126_075544-676x507.png 676w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/>Aloha, as our global Island and Ocean community grows here in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gohawaii.com\/islands\/kauai\"> Kauai, Hawaii<\/a>, locally, our hearts are spread out around the world right now to the families, friends, communities, and organizations we\u2019ve spent time with and shared through the <a href=\"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/category\/world-team-project\/\">World Team journey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We send love out, and hope somehow you may feel in your heart that space is held for YOU.\u00a0 Deep gratitude remains for the heart YOU bring, or have given, to the idea and vision for World Team Now, and to our World Team project over the years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19939 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thanksgiving2025-10-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thanksgiving2025-10-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thanksgiving2025-10-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thanksgiving2025-10-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thanksgiving2025-10-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thanksgiving2025-10-676x507.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thanksgiving2025-10.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Coming into this Holiday tide, it has been difficult to be objective and share our progress and growth, as so much continues to change. We are grateful to participate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/unocnice2025.org\/\">United Nations 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Ocean Conference<\/a> in Nice, France, this summer.\u00a0 We now have a global public policy ratified for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marine_protected_area\">Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)<\/a> in the open Ocean, and finally at least addresses the topic of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High_Seas_Treaty\">areas Beyond Boundaries of National Jurisdiction (BBNJ)<\/a>, with some healthy infusion of what could be the beginning of more environmental and social justice for all species, and our water bodies, too.\u00a0 BBNJ is set to <a href=\"https:\/\/treaties.un.org\/Pages\/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&amp;mtdsg_no=XXI-10&amp;chapter=21&amp;clang=_en\">go into action<\/a> next year&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>May the light we each hold in our hearts help better ignite the \u201cLighthouses\u201d around the world to become beacons of hope, in this<a href=\"https:\/\/oceandecade.org\/\"> United Nations \u201cDecade of the Ocean,\u201d<\/a> where <a href=\"https:\/\/sdgs.un.org\/node\/113\">multistakeholder partnerships<\/a> (Indigenous peoples, tribes, hubs, groups, the private and public sectors of local and global government, and corporations alike, are seemingly making an effort to change, and better work together on common goals.<\/p>\n<p>One heart at a time, we are engaged in holding a peaceful transformation for each sovereign being, as collective<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wri.org\/insights\/systems-change-how-to-top-6-questions-answered\"> systems change<\/a>, living into virtues.\u00a0 We are shining the light for being pioneering in how we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/372358281_The_Regenerative_Lens_A_conceptual_framework_for_regenerative_social-ecological_systems\">REGRENERATE<\/a> innovation, keeping the perspective of the value of nature-based organic wisdom, for a world where we can give what is best for us all to live together, for a renewed future.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19935\" src=\"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thanksgiving2025-6-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thanksgiving2025-6-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thanksgiving2025-6-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thanksgiving2025-6-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thanksgiving2025-6-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thanksgiving2025-6-676x507.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thanksgiving2025-6.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"all: unset; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\n<form style=\"text-align: center;\" action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Donate with PayPal<\/strong><br \/>\n<input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"ELDKA68LBWYRQ\" \/><br \/>\n<input title=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" alt=\"Donate with PayPal button\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" type=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/form>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aloha, as our global Island and Ocean community grows here in Kauai, Hawaii, locally, our hearts are spread out around the world right now to the families, friends, communities, and organizations we\u2019ve spent time with and shared through the World Team journey. We send love out, and hope somehow you may feel in your heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[183867301,183867298,183867305,585823,183867302,183867303,183867299,183867307,183866995,183867306,183866850,183867300,15010454,183866740],"tags":[183867312,183867308,183867313,183866910,51416731,57806994,183867010,183867275,184,48857,183867310,183867314,183867311,59722,183867309],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-19946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-183867301","category-bbnj","category-decade-of-the-ocean","category-global-environment","category-hawaii","category-kauai","category-marine-protected-areas","category-multistakeholder-partnerships","category-ocean","category-systems-change","category-un","category-united-nations-3rd-ocean-conference","category-world-team-now","category-world-team-project","tag-natuebasedsolutions","tag-oceandecade","tag-regnerative","tag-sdgs","tag-worldteam","tag-worldteamnow","tag-worldteamproject","tag-bbnj","tag-environment","tag-global-transformation","tag-mpas","tag-naturebasedorganicwisdom","tag-systemschange","tag-united-nations","tag-unoc3","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19946"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19966,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19946\/revisions\/19966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19946"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=19946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}