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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.

Original Caretakers
The Center for Earth Ethics Stands with Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe

The Center for Earth Ethics Stands with the Masphee Wampanoag Tribe for the protection of their homelands and all lands, waters and sacred sites of tribal nations and indigenous peoples around the world. During this time of the Coronavirus the Mashpee have received notice of dissolution of their lands (statement on Mashpee Wampanoag…

Eco-Ministry
Health in the Balance: 2020 Webinars on Faith and Climate

Dear Friends, We were honored to have Dr. Marium Husain present on Health, Covid-19, and Climate Change for our most recent webinar. With so much information out there on the coronavirus, we deeply appreciated Dr. Husain’s informative presentation on what we can be doing now to help our communities and those on…

Justice
Three Headlines that caught our Attention during the Coronavirus spike

In a time when the United States is preparing to brace for the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and struggles to ensure emergency supplies for its citizens, there have been interesting announcements affecting civil rights, earth rights, and indigenous peoples. BREAKING: The Bureau of Indian Affairs today told the Mashpee…

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 M.D. Smith

Communications Manager

On the calendar.

Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington

SIGN UP To Join the Poor People’s Campaign MASS ASSEMBLY in Washington D.C.! On June 20, 2020 we will rise together as a powerful moral fusion movement to demand the implementation of our Moral Agenda! The fact that there are 140 million poor and low-wealth people in a country this…

Postponed EARTH DAY Interfaith Evening – Save the Date!

POSTPONED Sacred Landscapes, Biocultural Heritage in Climate Crisis

**POSTPONED: Due to the coronavirus, the United Nations has postponed the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. We have accordingly postponed our side event and will provide updates as we learn more.** The Center for Earth Ethics is sponsoring Sacred Landscapes as a parallel event to the 19th Session of the…