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See the Earth Charter Benchmark Draft issued at the closing session of the Rio+7 in March 1997, Rio de Janeiro. This draft was built on the 1992 efforts, it collects consultations held in the following years, the Rio+5 deliberations and the dialogue of the Earth Charter Commission. Subsequently it was circulated to obtain comments and contributions.
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From 13-19 March 1997, the Rio+5 Forum brought together more than 500 committed individuals and organizations with the purpose of moving sustainable development "From Agenda to Action." The Forum focussed on identifying key strategies and management systems for "operationalizing" sustainable development at the local, national and global levels. Elements for the Earth Charter was widely discussed during workshops. An Earth Charter International Commission meeting was held and at the closing session of the Rio+5 the Earth Charter Benchmark Draft was issued followed by a speech of Mikhael Gorbachev, Maurice Strong and Mercedes Sosa.
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Este es el Resumen del encuentro de Jovenes en Costa Rica: iUn paso hacia una Agenda 21 estudiantil celebrado en agosto de 1997. Con el objeto de promover la participacion activa de jovenes entre 14 y 16 anos, en el desarrollo de una Carta de la Tierra.
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An interview to Mr. Strong conducted on March, 1998
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Paper presented by Peter Adriance and Sylvia Karlssonat at the 2nd International Conference of the Environment Forum, 6-8 November, 1998, De Poort, The Netherlands.
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This workshop, was organized and sponsored by the Earth Council in cooperation with the Aleyne Ecological Movement of Kyrgyzstan and the Foundation for Survival and Development of Humankind of Russia. Approximately 30 participants from Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan representing National Councils for Sustainable Development, NGOs, governments, academia and the media gathered together. The meeting was a valuable opportunity to work on the adoption of the Central Asian Earth Charter Draft as an open national and regional process to voice inputs into the International Earth Charter.
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The African and Middle East Charter meeting in December 1999 proved to be a very productive and successful event. Twenty participants from various countries of Africa and Middle East regions gathered together to add significant value and perspectives to the growing Earth Charter movement through the positive accomplishments of this meeting. Participants from this meeting represented: Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso, Mauritius, Senegal, Niger, Ghana and Jordan. The three-day meeting focused on discussions surrounding the text of the Charter and the International Earth Charter Campaign.
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We have consistently ignored the dark side of development and we continue to do so. The Earth which is our home, and home to all living creatures, has been used ruthlessly and mercilessly and unsustainably.
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Este folleto ha sido disenado como una fuente de informacion para todas aquellas personas interesadas en saber mas acerca de la Carta de la Tierra, incluyendo el por que es necesaria y detalles acerca del extraordinario proceso de redaccion por medio del cual fue escrita. Aqui se
brinda informacion acerca de esos individuos y organizaciones clave que han apoyado y continuan apoyando la Carta de la Tierra, el programa de actividades que comprende la Iniciativa de la Carta de la Tierra, asi como la estructura organizacional que ha sido establecida. Incluye ademas un
resumen corto de la historia de la Carta junto con el contexto necesario para entender de que manera se relaciona esta con la agenda global de sostenibilidad. El texto completo de la Carta de la Tierra ha sido incluido como apendice.
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Following the Earth Charter Commission meeting held in March 2000 at the UNESCO headquarters, on June 29, 2000, the Earth Charter was publicly launched and then presented to Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands in the Peace Palace, The Hague. This was the official launch of the new phase in the Earth Charter Initiative.
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Un articulo preparado para la revista "Earth Ethics" en 1996 por Steven C. Rockefeller.
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The Green Cross Earth Charter Philosophy is a synthesis document elaborated by Green Cross National Organizations and by individual experts during the process of consultations launched in 1996-1997 in Moscow and Geneva in March, 1997.
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Contribution to the Earth Charter Consultation Process from the International Council for Adult Education - ICAE and its Regional Officer for Latin America.
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The Regional Director of the International Community Education Association (ICEAAL) headquartered in San Jose, Costa Rica, and the Earth Council signed an agreement in mid 1996 to conduct an experimental pilot project with some grassroots groups from several Latin American countries intended to foster educational processes inherent to the project Building the Earth Charter. The result of this project are presented here.
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The Earth Council, with the collaboration of its partner institutions, made great efforts to engage Indigenous Peoples in decision-making processes regarding sustainable development. This document is a description of how the Indigenous Peoples participated in the Earth Charter Consultation process.
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El Consejo de da Tierra, con la colaboracion de sus instituciones asociadas, llevo a cabo esfuerzos significativos para incluir la participacion de los Pueblos Indigenas dentro de los mecanismos de toma de decisiones relacionados con el desarrollo sostenible. Este documento muestra de que forma los Pueblos Indigenas participaron en el proceso de consulta de la Carta de la Tierra.
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Prof. Leonardo Boff presented a rough draft for discussion for an alternate Earth Charter proposed in Petropolis on November 13, 1998.
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Highlights of 1998 Responses to the Earth Charter Benchmark Draft presented by the Pacifica Graduate Institute Community.
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Recommendations emanated from The Amazonian Parliament to the Earth Charter
General Assembly held in July 1999.
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Recomendaciones Emanadas para la Carta de la Tierra del Parlamento Amazonico en Julio 1999.
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In January 11, 2001 Prof. Steven C. Rockefeller wrote "The Earth Charter: An Ethical Foundation". A slightly shorter version of this essay appeared in Resurgence magazine from May/June 2001.
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This is the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development: The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, having met at Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992.
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This document deals with the official endorsement of the Earth Charter by the Republic of Tatarstan and was written by Stephen Smith.
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This paper was writen by James W. Poirot, Chairman Emeritus of CH2M Hill Companies, Ltd. Of Denver, Colorado, Vice President for External Affairs of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO) and President of its Technology Committee (ComTech).
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A paper by Soon-Young Yoon.
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The Earth Charter Secretariat located in San Jose, Costa Rica, prepares monthly newsflashes. Please feel free to send us your stories and pictures of Earth Charter related activities to info@earthcharter.org. To join our subscribers list please see option at our home page.
In this issue: Earth Charter International Campaign is launched at The Hague.
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In this issue: On June 26th, 2000 the Earth Charter international campaign was officially launched at the Peace Palace in The Hague.
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In this issue: 1. Pole To Pole. 2. Rock in Rio Music Festival. 3. The United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica has officially endorsed the Earth Charter. 4. The Earth Charter website has new sections:
· The Art Page
· The Youth Initiative
· The Earth Charter calendar of events:
5. The Earth Charter logo has been finalized.
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An Earth Charter-Sustainability Forum for the Asia-Pacific-Oceania region took place in Brisbane, Australia. The Forum was organized by the Australia National Earth Charter Committee, the Queensland Earth Charter Committee and the Key Center for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, and the Earth Charter International Secretariat.
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In this issue: 1. Tatarstan, first Parliament adoption of the Earth Charter. 2. Mikhail Gorbachev presents the Earth Charter - Urbino, Italy, on June 8, 2001 3. The Earth Charter receiving endorsements
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In this issue: Earth Charter Part of UNESCO Teacher Educational Programme.
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In thi issue: US Mayors Express Commitment To The Earth Charter.
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The Italian organization Federazione Nazionale Pro Natura, one of the oldest and most active environmental organizations in Italy, published "Riflessioni sulla Carta della Terra" (Reflections about the Earth Charter). The book is being distributed to more than 5,000 Italian schools. The author, Guiliana del Signore, is an important Italian pedagogist and a member of the executive committee of Pro Natura.
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Thirty-one indigenous peoples living in Siberia and the Russian Far East, formally endorsed the Earth Charter.
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As member of the Earth Charter Commission representing Africa and the Middle East, Her Royal Highness Princess Basma Bint Talal took the initiative of launching a national dicussion in Jordan as well as an Arab regional meeting to introduce the Earth Charter Principles. The purpose of both gatherings was to carry on discussing, disseminating, and endorsing the principles of the Earth Charter. The ultimate goal was to receive an endorsement of the Charter from many key leaders in the region to prepare for the World Summit on Sustainable Development to be held in South Africa in 2002 (RIO +10).
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Guillem Ramis, who was coodinatoring VIVIM PLEGATS (Living Together, a multicultural program for peace education and cooperation based in the Balearic Islands (Spain), has made a very important contribution by providing adaptations of the Earth Charter for children and young people in the following languages: Catalan, English, Euskara, French, German, Greek, Japonese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
The web-site also has the the adaptations organized by language, included the lastest adaptation for children from 3-5 years!
Organization: Vivim Plegats
Contact: Guillem Ramis
<gramis@dginnova.caib.es>
http://weib.caib.es/programes/vivimplegats/carta_de_la_terra.htm
A short 3-page account of how the author has been inspired by the Earth Charter and used it in a) her neighborhood ii) her school community iii) the wider professional community
Organization: Mato Grosso Earth Charter Committee
Contact: Beatriz Siqueira
<beatrizconingham@hotmail.com>
The Modern Education Institute (IEM) is a pre-school and primary educational institution (located in Costa Rica), whose mission and educational philosophy are focused on the vision of building a more participatory and just world as means to obtain peace and human sustainable development. The staff are utilizing the Earth Charter as an instrument. The 2-pg. document is a description of how the Institute has used the Earth Charter as a framework for its Environmental Education Program.
Organization: Instituto Educativo Moderno
Contact: Leda Beirute
<lbeirute@iemonline.org>
This 2 pg. illustrated document introduces the Earth Charter to children and covers some of the major principles of the Charter.
Organization: Yeravan University
Contact: Karine Danielyan
<kdanel@freenet.am>
UNESCO has developed a multimedia teacher education programme entitled "Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future" as part of its programme "Educating for a Sustainable Future." It includes a substantial section on the Earth Charter and also suggests ways to be involved in the Earth Charter process. The rest of the programme provides a valuable overview for teachers of the holistic and interdisciplinary concept of sustainability, its implications for teaching across the curriculum, its emphasis on values and ethics, and teaching strategies and methods that can be used for such subjects.
The online module is available at: http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/
Organization: UNESCO
Contact: John Fien
<j.fien@griffith.edu.au>
An 11-page detailed description of the Vivim Plegats (Living Together) multicultural education program for peace and cooperation. This program is currently in place in over 50 public schools in the Balearic Islands. The Earth Charter and is a central component of the program along with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Appendix C (pg. 6 & 7) describes the implementation of the Vivim Plegats program.
Note: The web-site also contains 3 children's adaptations (for different age groups) of the Earth Charter in over a dozen languages.
Organization: Ministry of Education - Baleric Islands
Contact: Guillem Ramis Moneny
<gramis@dginnova.caib.es>
http://weib.caib.es/programes/vivimplegats/carta_de_la_terra.htm
This document describes a six-Phase approach on how Crianças de Paz developed and implemented a program for environmental education in the schools of Atibaia (Brazil) featuring the Earth Charter. The Earth Charter is explicitly introduced in the last Phase. The approach could apply equally in non-formal environments.
Organization: Instituto Pedra Grande de Preservaçao Ambiental
Contact: Sheila Ceccon
<mapceccon@uol.com.br>
A 4-pg. narrative and lesson plan on how to introduce the Earth Charter using participants' artisitic senses and through the cultivation of a "temenos" or a "reflective circle".
Organization: Ark of Hope
Contact: Cami Davis and Sally Linder
<selinder@aol.com>
'The Systems Game' is a lively 15-min. group excercise/game which provides a direct experience highlighting a key theme of the Earth Charter, namely, 'Interconnectedness'. The document is a 1-pg. description of how to conduct the activity.
Contact: Joanna Macy and Molly Brown
A 1-pg. Earth Charter adaptation for children based on the 1st four major principles of the Earth Charter.
Organization: Queensland Earth Charter Committee
Contact: Louise Erbacher
<lerbacher4@hotmail.com>
A document that describes how 60 children from the Arawang Primary School in Australia were introduced to the Earth Charter. It shows the process in which the kids brainstormed about the future of the planet, local and global issues and discussed environmental and personal issues widely. As the culmination of a two term in-depth work they made a beautiful Earth Charter banner - pictures included in the 3-pg. attached document.
Organization: The Earth Charter in Australia
Contact: Brendan Mackey
<brendan.mackey@anu.edu.au>
This 5 pg. document has suggested activities (appropriate for both classroom teachers as well as a community educators) in the following subject areas: The Creative Arts, Language and Literature, Mathematics, Economics, Biology, Science, Technology and Social Studies.
Organization: Earth Charter International Secretariat
Contact: Brendan Mackey
<Brendan.Mackey@anu.edu.au>
This is 5-page syllabus for a course titled, 'Earth Charter: Pathway to a Sustainable Future?' taught at Michigan State University. It includes the course description, a detailed plan, a description of the assignments and the evaluation criteria. It provides and excellent model for any one interested in developing an Earth Charter course. Also in this database, you can find a course review for the above class.
Organization: Michigan State University
Contact: Terry Link
<link@msu.edu>
This course review of the class, 'Earth Charter: Pathway to a Sustainable Future', (the syllabus of which is also in the data-base) is an excellent description of how this course was designed, evaluated and run. A very useful narrative for anyone thinking about designing a course based on the Earth Charter.
Organization: Michigan State University
Contact: Terry Link
<link@msu.edu>
The pdf file attached is the official French version of our Earth Charter Brochure designed for an easy printing use and produced by the Earth Charter International Secretariat.
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The Radio Netherlands, in collaboration with the Earth Council, has been producing programs on the Earth Charter that were broadcast by 552 radio stations throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
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This paper was written by Beatriz Schulthess, former Coordinator of the Indigenous Peoples Program of the Earth Council.
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The Earth Charter as An International 'Soft-Law' by Donald A. Brown,
Director of the Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy.
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In 1996, the Center for Respect of Life and Environment - CRLE distributed a special issue of its quarterly publication, Earth Ethics, focused on the Earth Charter. This report is drawn from a preliminary analysis of some of the responses to this Earth Charter issue. It includes: 1. Exemplary integrated responses and earth charter-type documents submitted; 2. Useful and illustrative responses to the main questions on the response form; and 3. A list of respondents whose material has been analyzed or included.
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This paper by Abelardo Brenes and Deborah Du Nann Winter describes the psychological potential of the Earth Charter, a document written primarily by and for non-government organizations and world citizens, for soliciting committed environmental action from people throughout the world.
Abelardo Brenes from the University for Peace, Costa Rica
and Institute for Psychological Research, University of Costa Rica
and Deborah Du Nann Winter from the Whitman College, U.S.A.
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Mr. Ronald Israel from the Education Development Center (EDC)presents a
Report from the Earth Education Partnership Programme. This report (Feb.'97) summarizes the results of a focus group meeting with participating U.S. teachers regarding ideas for incorporating Earth Charter concepts into secondary school environmental education curriculum.
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El Dr. Francisco Gutierrez Perez, Director ILPEC en Guatemala, nos presenta este documento basado en la Carta de la Tierra de como actuar eticamente.
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This paper was presented by Moacir Gadotti at the Forum on our Global Challenges, Costa Rica 2000 Commission: A New Millennium of Peace, University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica on November, 2000.
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Este documento fue presentado por Moacir Gadotti en el Foro sobre Nuestros Retos Globales, Comision Costa Rica 2000: Un Nuevo Milenio de Paz en la Universidad para la Paz en San Jose, Costa Rica en noviembre del 2000.
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The Regional Office for Latin America of the Global Education Associates - GEA prepared this report during the Earth Charter Consultation process.
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In this Issue:
1. Illustrated Earth Charter Booklet for Children Created
2. Earth Charter Summits Mobilized People Across the U.S.
3. ‘A Blooming World’ Campaign takes root
4. New Zealand Earth Charter Activities
5. Earth Charter Widely Disseminated in Spain
6. Special Earth Charter Newsletter Issued by the Earth Ministry
7. Announcements from the International Secretariat
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In this issue:
** United Nations Secretary-General’s High Level Advisory Panel
** Education Campaign by the School Sisters of Notre Dame
** Pax Christi International support
** Earth Dialogues (21 – 23 February, Lyon, France) Report is now available
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In this issue:
** United Nations Secretary-General’s High Level Advisory Panel
** Education Campaign by the School Sisters of Notre Dame
** Pax Christi International support
** Earth Dialogues (21 – 23 February, Lyon, France) Report is now available
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In this issue:
** Senate Puerto Rico Fully Endorses The Earth Charter **
** All Municipalities in Jordan Endorse the Earth Charter **
** Australian Capital Territory – What a Commitment! **
** Soria Declaration in Spain 14 to 17 May **
** Websites in French and Spanish **
** Teaching for the Environment in Higher Education: The Promise of the Earth Charter **
** Earth Charter Launch in Jakarta, Indonesia **
** Earth Charter Events in Bali during PrepCom IV **
** Brazilians Moving Forward with the Earth Charter **
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** Earth Charter in Bali, Indonesia/PrepCom IV **
** The Ark of Ho