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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.

Rural Poverty in California: Is the American Dream Drying Up in California’s Central Valley?

Change is not an easy thing to do especially when only one person is doing it. In Central California, that person’s name was Nettie Morrison who by strength of will,  a good amount of political acumen, and a community ready for new life, was able to bring change and hope…

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Statement from the Gathering of Indigenous Spiritual Elders of South America & The Abya Yala

The process of unification of spiritual leaders around the world is taking place. CEE’s Original Caretakers Program Director, Mindahi Bastida recently participated in one such gathering of Indigenous Spiritual Elders of South America & The Abya Yala.  In order to take the next step among the Latin American peoples, native…

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Love the Water… World Water Day is Every Day

Protecting clean water is one of the most important ways you can have a positive effect in your environment. In honor of World Water Day, we share Steps to Build Community and Congregation around Water.   Where is your water? Find your watershed. Knowing where your Water comes from is…

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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 School in Ohio in partnership with MTSO, the Climate Reality Project and the Initiative for Food and AgriCultural Transformation at Ohio State University. “The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the…

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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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