Earth Charter

Here you’ll find a sampling of video related to the Earth Charter, including Parliament panels and talks and interviews with Mary Evelyn Tucker.

For more video related to the Earth Charter, go to the Earth Charter International YouTube channel.

Values & Worldviews: Ecological Civilization as Mutual Flourishing
Earth Charter International
September 10, 2020
Speakers: Mary Evelyn Tucker, Meijun Fan, and Karenna Gore; Moderator: Andrew Schwartz. This Webinar was organized as a collaborative effort between the Earth Charter International, University for Peace, Pace Center for Green Sci-Teck and Development, the Institute of Ecological Civilization, China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), and the Center for Process Studies.

Talk by Mary Evelyn Tucker
Panel on “The Earth Charter and the New UN Development Agenda”
2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions, Salt Lake City, Utah
October 15 - 19, 2015
Mary Evelyn Tucker presents the Earth Charter, a civil society document that integrate ecology, justice, and peace and represents a global movement from independence to interdependence. After a brief history of the Earth Charter, Tucker discusses her participation in drafting the Preamble and the need for humans to think in deep time.

Talk by Dr. Kusumita Pedersen
Panel on “The Earth Charter and the New UN Development Agenda”
2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions, Salt Lake City, Utah
October 15 - 19, 2015
Dr. Kusumita Pedersen, Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Religious Studies at St. Francis College, follows Mary Evelyn Tucker’s talk at the 2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions in a panel presentation on the Earth Charter. She sets the Earth Charter within the larger context of a search for global ethics, tracing its connections to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 1993 Declaration Towards a Global Ethic. Pedersen additionally defines “worldview” and “moral exclusion” as they are relevant to the Earth Charter.

Talk by Richard Clugston
Panel on “The Earth Charter and the New UN Development Agenda”
2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions, Salt Lake City, Utah
October 15 - 19, 2015
Richard Clugston, former coordinator of the Sustainability and Global Affairs program at the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, concludes the panel “The Earth Charter and the New UN Development Agenda.” He provides an overview of the evolution of UN negotations that led to the Sustainable Development Goals and uses the Earth Charter as an assessment framework to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Sustainable Development Goals. Throughout the talk, Clugston emphasizes the need to rethink economic systems within a context of flourishing ecological systems.

Earth Charter Costa Rica Interview with Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim
Interview conducted by Douglas Williamson of Earth Charter International
March 11, 2013
Watch short clips of this interview
An interview conducted by Douglas Williamson of Earth Charter International on March 11, 2013 with Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim during their visit to the Earth Charter Center for Education for Sustainable Development in Costa Rica. The interview ranges on subject but is concerned with religions, the Earth Charter, cosmology, care, and universal citizenship.

Mary Evelyn Tucker at the Earth Charter + 10
“Ethical Framework for a Sustainable World” conference
Gandhi Ashram, Ahmedabad
2010
Mary Evelyn Tucker gives an address on Threads of Sustainability at Gandhi Ashram. She draws out three points from the Earth Charter: reverence, gratitude, and humility. Tucker emphasizes how our journey requires a natural knowing and references the migrating red knot sandpipers as an example of how nature will guide us towards wisdom. 

Prof. Mary Evelyn Tucker introduces the Earth Charter
Parliament of the World’s Religions, Melbourne, Australia
October 2009
Prof. Mary Evelyn Tucker, Founder of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale, opens a panel on the Earth Charter at the Parliament of the World’s Religions 2009 in Melbourne and gives an introduction to the main themes of this international declaration.