sumak in a sentence

1. What is buen vivir, or Sumak Kawsay?

2. The general manager of Sumak Life in Riobamba

3. • Principles of honesty, quality and discipline in the SUMAK METAL

4. Sumak Life in the Andean province Chimborazo unites 550 cooperative members who mostly cultivate small plots.

5. Respect Mother Earth and continue to pursue the concept of “Good Life” (Sumak Kawsay) that you have advocated.

6. Their sense of time is not linear and their philosophy rests on the principle of Sumak Kawsay (“the good life”).

7. — “The sumak kawsay [‘good living’] concept has been forged from the ancestral wisdom of the indigenous peoples and nations.

8. Sumak Life trades only with organic products to guarantee a natural environment and the protection of the basis of life for humans.

9. The Sumak Kawsay worldview is seen as a potential alternative to the concept of prosperity, progress and growth that currently prevails.

10. We decided to construct a new form of citizen co-existence, in diversity and harmony with nature, to reach ‘el buen vivir, el sumak kawsay’.

11. It was in 2008 when Ecuador sent a strong signal to the world: the Rights for Nature had become an integral part of Ecuador’s constitution and Sumak Kawsay its guiding principle.

12. In the case of Ecuador, in fact, it is not only pluri-nationality, but also the indigenous concept of ‘the good life’ (sumak kausay) and the ‘rights of nature’ that are made into principles.

13. 1 The following examples should be highlighted among many others: In Ecuador, the different groups who joined forces in the Unidad Plurinacional de Izquierdas (Plurinational Unity of Left Wing Groups) proposed a governmental plan on the basis of Buen Vivir or Sumak Kawsay.