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Our Vision

The Center for Earth Ethics envisions a world where value is measured according to the sustained well-being of all people and our planet.

Our Mission

We work to cultivate the public consciousness needed to make changes in policy and culture that will establish a new value system that is based on this vision of the world.

Programs Intro

We advance our mission through four core programs that complement and connect to each other in all our public programs, academics and movement-building.

Programs

Eco-Ministry

Fostering educational opportunities and dialogue about humanity’s relationship to the rest of the natural world for seminary students, faith leaders and local communities.
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Environmental Justice
& Civic Engagement

Working at the intersection of social inequity and injustice and the ecological crisis.
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Original Caretakers

Honoring, supporting and learning from indigenous knowledge and traditions, especially regarding the spiritual dimensions of our ecological crisis.
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Sustainability
& Global Affairs

Engaging with policy-makers and civil society in order to bring faith, wisdom and indigenous traditions to bear on the establishment of a new economic development paradigm that is based on long-term well-being of all life on Earth.
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From the blog.

Catherine Flowers Gives Testimony to House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment

The Clean Water State Revolving Fund: How Federal Infrastructure Investment Can Help Communities Modernize Water Infrastructure and Address Affordability Challenges Excellent testimony before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment by Catherine Flowers at 31:30 mark on this link. We must confront inequities in wastewater…

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What is the Doctrine of Discovery? Why is it relevant in our world today?

In a nut shell, the Doctrine of Discovery, which is based on the Papal Bulls of the fifteenth century, is the origin of the European colonization, providing the answer as to why and how the actual degradation of peoples and nations began globally. For me, as a historian, knowing this…

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CEE Update: Water, Women and Planting Seeds of Change

IN LOVING MEMORY We ⁦at the Center for Earth Ethics and Union Theological Seminary were honored to know Grandmother Josephine and give thanks for her life and teaching. Reciprocity, Responsibilities, Hope “We’ve known for a long time that water is alive. Water can hear you. Water can sense what you are…

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On the calendar.

Ministry In The Time Of Climate Change 2019

The 2019 Minister’s Training will be held at Methodist Theological Seminary in Ohio in partnership with MTSO and the Climate Reality Project. “The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age…

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Plant Wisdom and Ecological Consciousness Class at Union Theological Seminary

CEE is offering a 1 credit course for the Spring 2019 semester at Union Theological Seminary beginning February Teaching team: Center or Earth Ethics staff including: Karenna Gore, Poppy Jones, Geraldine Ann Patrick Encina, Mindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz, Tory Field Description: In this time of ecological and social distress, this…

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