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It's time for the Earth Charter
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We URGENTLY need…
To promote human development in an equitable and sustainable way.
To solve the climate crisis with a sense of global responsibility.
To adopt patterns of production, consumption, and reproduction that
safeguard Earth’s regenerative capacities.
To protect and restore the integrity of Earth’s ecological systems with special concern for biological diversity and the natural processes that sustain life.
To encourage and support mutual understanding, solidarity, and cooperation
among all peoples and within and among nations.
Recognize that peace is the wholeness created by right relationships with
oneself, other persons, other cultures, other lifes, Earth, and the larger whole
of which all are a part.
Demilitarize national security systems to the level of a non-provocative defense
posture, and convert military resources to peaceful purposes, including ecological
restoration.
We URGENTLY need living examples…
That care for the community of life with understanding,
compassion, and love.
That care for the community of life with understanding,
compassion, and love.
That build democratic societies that are just, participatory,
sustainable, and peaceful.
That build democratic societies that are just, participatory,
sustainable, and peaceful.
That secure Earth’s bounty and beauty
for present and
future generations.
That secure Earth’s bounty and beauty
for present and
future generations.
Made by Siem Diem Siong, 11, Malaysia
That respect Earth and life in
all its diversity.
That respect Earth and life in
all its diversity.
We URGENTLY need citizens with:
Spirit of human solidaritySpirit of human solidarity
Gratitudefor thegift of life
Gratitudefor thegift of life
Humility regarding the human place in nature and on Earth.Humility regarding the human place in nature and on Earth.
Comprehending the sense of global
interdependence
Because our Because our
challenges:
and spiritualand spiritual
environmental,environmental,
economical,economical,
political,political,
socialsocial
are interconnected
together,
we can forge we can forge inclusive solutionsinclusive solutions
and
Ecological Integrity
Ecological Integrity
Social and Economic
Justice
Social and Economic
Justice
Democracy, nonviolence and peace
Democracy, nonviolence and peace
Respect and Care for
the Community
of Life
Respect and Care for
the Community
of Life
We URGENTLY need citizens conscious that:
Global warming does not respect
borders,
Global warming does not respect
borders,
the global financial crisis is a crisis ofthe global financial crisis is a crisis of
ethics,
the changes we want to see out there…the changes we want to see out there…
begin inside.
So it is time to
think beyond…
your family…your family…
yourself,
your pocket,
your work,
and actand act
for all
Earth Citizens:
WE need YOU.
You have just read some principles of The Earth Charter.
The Earth Charter
In 1987 the United Nations World Commission on Environment and
Development called for the creation of a new charter that would set forth
fundamental principles for sustainable development.
The goal was to help build a just, sustainable, and peaceful global
society in the 21st century.
But it was only during the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, that the first draft of The Earth Charter was produced.
After an extent participatory discussion in all the continents that lasted
eight years, The Earth Charter was launched in a special ceremony at
The Peace Palace in The Hague, the Netherlands on 29 June, 2000.
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands attended the ceremony.
Mikhail Gorbachev, Maurice Strong, Steven Rockefeller,
Leonardo Boff and the Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai are
amongst the supporters of this important initiative.
You can also take part.
Today, more than ever, we need to disseminate
and put into action The Earth Charter principles.
If you also agree with this urgency,
believe in these principles and have enough breath
to help in this “little ants work”,
we suggest a few actions:
1. Access The Earth Charter website, read the document and if you agree
with the principles endorse the document. Suggest to your company,
organization and friends to also endorse it.
Text: http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/content/pages/Read-the-Charter.html
Endorse: http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/content/pages/Endorse.html
2. Send this presentation to people that think like us and to those that need
to think like us.
3. Do presentations and talk to friends about The Earth Charter.
5. Publish and disseminate the press release about The Earth Charter
Campaign 2009.
4. Help run The Earth Charter 2009 campaign - web banners, TV spot,
magazine ad - planned to launch in Brazil on April 22, 2009, The
International Earth Day.
We will need a lot of help to make this happen!
If you think you can help us, please request any of the creative materials
(web banners, TV spot, magazine, press release) to The Earth Charter
volunteers in Brazil:
6. Create other actions that help disseminate The Earth Charter principles,
as for ex. documentaries and films to run on YouTube, photograph
expositions, music and poetry. Check some video examples placed on
YouTube - search for The Earth Charter.
6. Create other actions that help disseminate The Earth Charter principles,
as for ex. documentaries and films to run on YouTube, photograph
expositions, music and poetry. Check some video examples placed on
YouTube - search for The Earth Charter.
Access here other ways to participate:
http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/content/pages/How%20you%20can%20participate.html
Know more about the focus areas of The Earth Charter:
http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/content/pages/Focus-Areas.html
Life on Earthappreciates.
Toward a Sustainable World.
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