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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.

Environmental Jusitce

Original Caretakers
Reflections on the Conference on the Doctrine of Discovery

By Petra Thombs Attending the conference on the Doctrine of Discovery, provided an opportunity to deepen our collective understanding of these edicts, which are based on the Papal Bulls issued by the Catholic Church in the fifteenth century. I find that I always have to start at the beginning in…

Musings
September Musings

By Shep Glennon September, you need a makeover. You need a name change, first of all. Your name literally means 7, yet when we write the date on government documents, we have to mislabel you as month number 9. All because some Christians thought it would be cute to make…

Eco-Ministry

Original Caretakers
Prayer of Thanks for Creation

Leader : Let us pray. Thank you, God, Thanks for beauty: The twinkle in an older person’s eye, A child’s shout of laughter; Thanks for the greening trees and frozen waterfalls, Stunning buildings and flowerbeds in summer. All: Thanks for beauty. Thank you, God, Thanks for creativity:…

Our inspired team.

Genie Cooper

Office Manager

Geraldine Ann Patrick Encina

Scholar in Residence

Catherine Coleman Flowers

Senior Fellow, Environmental Justice and Civic Engagement

Karenna Gore

Director

Harold ‘Poppy’ Jones

Herbalist in Residence

Mindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz

Director, Original Caretakers

Andrew Schwartz

Deputy Director

Shannon Smith

Communications Manager

Petra Thombs

Intern, Original Caretakers

On the calendar.

Take class with CEE in November. Topics in Ministry: Religion and Climate Change

SU190 Course Fall 2018: Topics in Ministry Religion and Climate Change: The World’s Faith & Wisdom Traditions in Ecological Crisis Registration is open to UTS students/SU190 and to the public for a $25 registration fee. Register here. Climate change is about more than science and economics. It raises questions about…

2018 Parliament of the World’s Religions – Toronto

Join members of the Center for Earth Ethics Team at the 2018 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Toronto, ON • November 1st – 7th. We call upon peoples of faith and conscience to stand for a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world and join thousands of interfaith activists from…

MARIANNE WILLIAMSON + KARENNA GORE: METAPHYSICS AND THE PUBLIC SQUARE

Cultural critic and best selling author Marianne Williamson talks with Rubin Museum Future Fellow and CEE Director, Karenna Gore to explore how we can shift our civic conversation so that we are “watering the roots and not merely the leaves.” Questions abound: What metaphysical healing needs to happen for us…