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Earth Charter Grant Application form
Thank you for your interest in helping to implement the Earth Charter!
Please fill in the basics, then write as much about your project/initiative as you like.
Name
Email Address
Name of Congregation
Address of Congregation
Phone Number
ELCA Synod (choose one)
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4B - Central States Synod, ELCA
7B - New England Synod, ELCA
7C - Metropolitan New York Synod, ELCA
8F - Delaware-Maryland Synod, ELCA
Who came up with the idea for your project/initiative?
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One person
Team of 2-6 people
Team of 7 or more
Name of Project/Initiative at Your Congregation
Start Date (if not started yet, use anticipated start date and indicate "anticipated" below)
Actual or Anticipated Start Date?
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Actual start date
Anticipated start date
Which of the 4 Earth Charter Pillar(s) apply to your project/initiative? (to choose multiple options, "command enter" for iOS or "CTRL enter" for PC)
Select all that apply...
Respect and Care for the Community of Life
Ecological Integrity
Social and Economic Justice
Democracy, Nonviolence and Peace
Which of the 16 Earth Charter Principles apply to your project/initiative? (to choose multiple options, "command enter" for iOS or "CTRL enter" for PC)
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1. Respect Earth and life in all its diversity
2. Care for the community of life with understanding, compassion and love
3. Build democratic societies that are just, participatory, sustainable and peaceful
4. Secure Earth’s bounty and beauty for present and future generations
5. Protect and restore the integrity of Earth’s ecological systems, with special concern for biological diversity and the natural processes that sustain life
6. Prevent harm as the best method of environmental protection and, when knowledge is limited, apply a precautionary approach
7. Adopt patterns of production, consumption and reproduction that safeguard Earth’s regenerative capacities, human rights and community well-being
8. Adopt patterns of production, consumption and reproduction that safeguard Earth’s regenerative capacities, human rights and community well-being
9. Eradicate poverty as an ethical, social and environmental imperative
10. Ensure that economic activities and institutions at all levels promote human development in an equitable and sustainable manner
11. Affirm gender equality and equity as prerequisite to sustainable development and ensure universal access to education, health care and economic opportunity
12. Uphold the right of all, without discrimination, to a natural and social environment supportive of human dignity, bodily health and spiritual well-being, with a special attention to the rights of indigenous peoples and minorities
13. Strengthen democratic institutions at all levels, and provide transparency and accountability in governance, inclusive participation in decision-making and access to justice
14. Integrate into formal education and life-long learning the knowledge, values and skills needed for a sustainable way of life
15. Treat all living beings with respect and consideration
16. Promote a culture of tolerance, nonviolence and peace
Which of the 61 Earth Charter Actions/Objectives apply to your project/initiative?
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1.a. Recognize that all beings are interdependent and every form of life has value regardless of its worth to human beings.
1.b. Affirm faith in the inherent dignity of human beings and in the intellectual, artistic, ethical and spiritual potential of humanity.
2.a. Care for the community of life with understanding, compassion and love.
2.b. Affirm that with increased freedom, knowledge and power comes increased responsibility to promote the common good.
3.a. Ensure that communities at all levels guarantee human rights and fundamental freedoms and provide everyone an opportunity to realize their full potential.
3.b. Promote social and economic justice, enabling all to achieve a secure and meaningful livelihood that is ecologically responsible.
4.a. Recognize that the freedom of action of each generation is qualified by the needs of future generations.
4.b. Transmit to future generations values, traditions and institutions that support the long-term flourishing of Earth’s human and ecological communities.
5.a. Adopt development plans and regulations requiring environmental conservation and rehabilitation as integral at every level.
5.b. Establish and safeguard viable nature and biosphere reserves, including wild lands and marine areas, to protect Earth’s life support systems, maintain biodiversity and preserve our natural heritage.
5.c. Promote the recovery of endangered species and ecosystems.
5.d. Control and eradicate non-native or genetically modified organisms harmful to native species and the environment and prevent introduction of such harmful organisms.
5.e. Manage the use of renewable resources such as water, soil, forest products and marine life in ways that do not exceed rates of regeneration and that protect the health of ecosystems.
5.f. Manage the extraction and use of non-renewable resources such as minerals and fossil fuels in ways that minimize depletion and cause no serious environmental damage.
6.a. Take action to avoid the possibility of serious or irreversible environmental harm even when scientific knowledge is incomplete or inconclusive.
6.b. Place the burden of proof on those who argue that a proposed activity will not cause significant harm, and make the responsible parties liable for environmental harm.
6.c. Ensure that decision making addresses the cumulative, long-term, indirect, long distance and global consequences of human activities.
6.d. Prevent pollution of any part of the environment and allow no build-up of radioactive, toxic, or other hazardous substances.
6.e. Avoid military activities damaging to the environment.
7.a. Reduce, reuse and recycle the materials used in production and consumption systems, and ensure that residual waste can be assimilated by ecological systems.
7.b. Act with restraint and efficiency when using energy, and rely increasingly on renewable energy sources such as solar and wind.
7.c. Promote the development, adoption and equitable transfer of environmentally sound technologies.
7.d. Internalize the full environmental and social costs of goods and services in the selling price, and enable consumers to identify products that meet the highest social and environmental standards.
7.e. Ensure universal access to health care that fosters reproductive health and responsible reproduction.
7.f. Adopt lifestyles that emphasize the quality of life and material sufficiency in a finite world.
8.a. Support international scientific and technical cooperation on sustainability, with special attention to the needs of developing nations.
8.b. Recognize and preserve the traditional knowledge and spiritual wisdom in all cultures that contribute to environmental protection and human well-being.
8.c. Ensure that information of vital importance to human health and environmental protection, including genetic information, remains available in the public domain.
9.a. Guarantee the right to potable water, clean air, food security, uncontaminated soil, shelter and safe sanitation, allocating the national and international resources required.
9.b. Empower every human being with the education and resources to secure a sustainable livelihood and provide social security and safety nets for those who are unable to support themselves.
9.c. Recognize the ignored, protect the vulnerable, serve those who suffer and enable them to develop their capacities and to pursue their aspirations.
10.a. Promote the equitable distribution of wealth within nations and among nations.
10.b. Enhance the intellectual, financial, technical and social resources of developing nations, and relieve them of onerous international debt.
10.c. Ensure that all trade supports sustainable resource use, environmental protection, and progressive labor standards.
10.d. Require multinational corporations and international financial organizations to act transparently in the public good, and hold them accountable for the consequences of their activities.
11.a. Secure the human rights of women and girls and end all violence against them.
11.b. Promote the active participation of women in all aspects of economic, political, civil, social and cultural life as full and equal partners, decision makers, leaders and beneficiaries.
11.c. Strengthen families and ensure the safety and loving nurture of all family members.
12.a. Eliminate discrimination in all its forms, such as that based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, language and national, ethnic or social origin.
12.b. Affirm the right of indigenous peoples to the spirituality, knowledge, lands and resources and to their related practice of sustainable livelihoods.
12.c. Honor and support the young people of our communities, enabling them to fulfill their essential role in creating sustainable societies.
12.d. Protect and restore outstanding places of cultural and spiritual significance.
13.a. Uphold the right of everyone to receive clear and timely information on environmental matters and all development plans and activities which are likely to affect them or in which they have an interest.
13.b. Support local, regional and global civil society, and promote the meaningful participation of all interested individuals and organizations in decision making.
13.c. Protect the rights to freedom of opinion, expression, peaceful assembly, association and dissent.
13.d. Institute effective and efficient access to administrative and independent judicial procedures, including remedies and redress for environmental harm and the threat of such harm.
13.e. Eliminate corruption in all public and private institutions.
13.f. Strengthen local communities, enabling them to care for their environments, and assign environmental responsibilities to the levels of government where they can be carried out most effectively.
14.a. Provide all, especially children and youth, with educational opportunities that empower them to contribute actively to sustainable development.
14.b. Promote the contribution of the arts and humanities as well as the sciences in sustainability education.
14.c. Enhance the role of the mass media in raising awareness of ecological and social challenges.
14.d. Recognize the importance of moral and spiritual education for sustainable living.
15.a. Prevent cruelty to animals being kept in human societies and protect them from suffering.
15.b. Protect wild animals from methods of hunting, trapping and fishing that cause extreme, prolonged, or avoidable suffering.
15.c. Avoid or eliminate to the full extent possible the taking or destruction of non-targeted species.
16.a. Encourage and support mutual understanding, solidarity and cooperation among all peoples and within and among nations.
16.b. Implement comprehensive strategies to prevent violent conflict and use collaborative problem solving to manage and resolve environmental conflicts and other disputes.
16.c. Demilitarize national security systems to the level of a non-provocative defense posture, and convert military resources to peaceful purposes, including ecological restoration.
16.d. Eliminate nuclear, biological and toxic weapons of mass destruction.
16.e. Ensure that the use of orbital and outer space supports environmental protection and peace.
16.f. Recognize that peace is the wholeness created by right relationships with oneself, other persons, other cultures, other life, Earth and the larger whole of which we all are a part.
What do you intend to accomplish?
How much funding are you requesting? Maximums for the four participating synods, are:
- Central States: up to $250
- Delaware - Maryland: up to $500
- Metro New York: up to _____
- New England States: up to _____
If you receive the funding, how and when do you intend to spend the money?
Anticipated Completion Date
Thanks so much for answering the above questions!
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Now, please feel free to share additional thoughts about how your project will help implement the Earth Charter. (Write as much as you like. The block will expand as you write.)
Thank You for Submitting Your Grant Application to help Implement the Earth Charter.
You should receive a response from us within a few days.
(Feel free to contact your synod representative (below) if you would like to follow up.)
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Points of Contact
Central States Synod Keith A. Mundy
Keith.Mundy12@gmail.com
Delaware-Maryland Synod Susan Meier
suzi-organizer@comcast.net
Metro New York Synod Gerry Falco
gafsail@gmail.com
New England Synod Rev. Nancy Wright
nwright@nesynod.org