Creating a viable and meaningful future for life on Earth will require a new bottom line for economics and a new approach t o development. This Earth Ethics issue explores the ethics and practices of humane sustainable development, emphasizing various perspectives on the foundations of such development, as well as examples of putting humane sustainable development into practice.

Humane Sustainable Development, by Richard M. Clugston. Dr. Clugston describes three major shifts we must make to achieve humane sustainable development: Recognize that existence is a living and interconnected community of diverse subjects who deserve our respect and care. Create a new “bottom line” for economics and development that differentiates between constructive and destructive economic activities. Create open, participatory processes that empower people to contribute at all levels of decisionmaking. Read More »

With the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development launched in March 2005, we have a unique opportunity for a global dialogue on the theory and practice of education for sustainable development (ESD). This issue of Earth Ethics provides a diversity of perspectives on the nature of sustainable development, and education to foster it, as a contribution to this ongoing dialogue.

Seven Common Sustainability Themes, by Andres Edwards. He identifies the following as seven themes common to various perspectives on sustainability: Stewardship, Respect for limits, Interdependence, Economic restructuring, Fair distribution, Intergenerational perspective, and Nature as a model and teacher. Read More »

2005 Thomas Berry Foundation Award

Miriam Therese MacGillis, a co-founder of Genesis Farm in 1980, received the 2005 Thomas Berry Foundation Award on October 1, 2005, in recognition of the 25th anniversary of Genesis Farm and in celebration of her remarkable leadership she has given to the universe story vision.

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PAST RECIPIENTS of the THOMAS BERRY AWARDS:

» 2005 Award Winner - Miriam MacGillis
» 2004 Award Winner - The Very Reverend James Parks Morton
» 2002 Award Winner - Steven C. Rockefeller
» 2000 Award Winner - Dr. Tu Weiming
» 1999 Award Winner - Brian Swimme
» 1998 Award Winner - Mary Evelyn Tucker Read More »

From his academic beginning as a cultural historian, Thomas Berry has evolved over the last thirty years to become a historian of the earth. He sees himself not as a theologian but as a geologian. The movement from human history to cosmological history has been a necessary progression for Berry. In his own lifetime he has witnessed the emergence of a planetary civilization as cultures have come in contact around the globe, often for the first time. At the same time, the very resources for sustaining such a planetary civilization are being undermined by massive environmental destruction. Read More »