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02.2.2007

EarthCAT: A Tool for Communities to Implement the Earth Charter

The Earth Charter Partnership for Sustainable Communities (ECPSC) has launched the Earth Charter Community Action Tool, which can be used to develop and implement community sustainability plans.

 

Called EarthCAT for short, it consists of a step-by-step workbook that can help community leaders initiate a comprehensive action plan, and its on-line management support software shares experiences from other communities. It can lead you along as you set goals and targets and develop strategies to achieve them. It can also help you measure your progress.

16.1.2007

Australia: Environmental Regulators, Managers Learn About Earth Charter

When John Goldsmith, a natural resources professional based in Perth, Australia, realized that few of his colleagues knew about the Earth Charter, he decided to introduce it at an annual gathering that brought his whole network together, which has since been turned into a resource document on “The Earth Charter and Natural Resource Management in Australia” [Download file, PDF 140 KB].

 

16.1.2007

The Earth Charter in Pidgin

We received many wonderful cards and notes over the New Year. For example, ECI Advisor Peter Blaze Corcoran sent this note from Fiji, where he is currently working:

03.1.2007

Christian Brother Encourages Adoption, Teaching of Earth Charter – Australia

Australian Christian Brother Moy Hitchen tells the Catholic News Service that he encourages adoption and teaching of the principles of the Earth Charter by the Christian Brothers, because it offers “guidelines for stewardship of the earth.” Advocacy for environmental justice has taken Brother Moy, who blogs his Eco-Journeys at the web site of Edmund Rice International. into some of the globe’s most economically and ecologically challenged communities.

26.12.2006

Moacir Gadotti Shows the Way Forward on ESD at UN Conference

The Earth Charter was a part of the International Workshop on the U.N. Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, held in Bonn, Germany, on the 28th and 29th of November, 2006.

 

Moacir Gadotti, the Earth Charter Initiative Affiliate in Brazil and Director of Paulo Freire Institute, participated and spoke. He asked, “What skills do we need to learn to promote Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)? What attitudes and behaviors can we stimulate to improve ESD?”

22.12.2006

City of Munich endorses the Earth Charter

By unanimous vote, the Munich City Council officially endorsed the Earth Charter on Oct. 25, 2006, acting on a petition filed by the Ecological Democratic Party. Joachim Schwanck, spokesperson of the Department of Health and Environment, introduced and supported the petition to the councillors.

22.12.2006

Earth Charter inspires hope and action at Fourth Congress of the Valencian School Federation

The Fourth Congress of the Escola Valenciana Federation took place in Valencia from December 5-8, 2006, on the theme of “The Valencian School and a Sustainable Society.” Participants sought to share experiences and pedagogical strategies to educate and galvanize the school community, as well as the society in general, in favor of a sustainable and peaceful Valencian Country and world. The final resolutions adopted by the Congress reaffirmed “the commitment for the reflection-action didactic principles — education in favor of the defense and respect towards the environment, coexistence, interculturality, solidarity and peace.”

20.11.2006

Earth Charter in Japan and China

The Earth Charter Initiative in Japan has received a new burst of energy thanks to the efforts of Earth Charter Commission, and ECI Council member, Senator Wakako Hironaka.

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