Dear Reader

I’m thrilled to share that next Tuesday afternoon, I’ll be representing Haumea Ecoversity alongside an incredible community artist at the 2025 Mary Robinson Climate & Nature 2-day Conference.
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I’ll be introducing Honorary Haumea Ecoversity Advisory Member, Founder of Blueway Studio (working across Ireland's South East region), Angelina Foster and the talented work of her creative community collaborators, who are activating inclusive intergenerational conversations through creative workshops grounded in the People's Earth Charter’s unifying ecological vision and integrated eco-social guiding principles.

• Mary Robinson Conference:
  Tuesday 27^th May at 14:50 – 15:30
• Venue: Library, Ballina Arts Centre, Ballina
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What to Expect

• Creative Community Activations: See collective handprinted Earth Charter Swift boxes and “Prayer Flags” created in Earth Charter-inspired workshops that Angelina and her collaborators have used to spark dialogue about caring for ourselves, our wildlife, our places and the web of life.
• Earth Charter in Action: Discover how values-based symbols and multilingual Earth Charter language (available in 66 languages and its new Irish translation by Phoebe Cope) can broaden understanding and clarify community conversations for individual well-being to community, planetary, and future-generations care.
• Youth-Led Theatre: Hear about Angelina and collaborators' work for their pilot Future Ancestor Festival in Athy last year. They facilitated “Cry Me a River,” a mock county council play by two youth theatre groups, who quoted the people's Earth Charter's preamble as they debate the future of the River Barrow—which was performed just a few weeks ago at the Irish Seanad! (Here, and overseas, I'm witnessing that The Earth Charter resonates strongly with youth as they are more exposed to the several decades shift in global education toward sustainable, just and equitable living - they just get that the Earth Charter is so relevant to them and their futures)

• Historical Context & Vision Forward: I’ll briefly trace the evolution of eco-social values—from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the founding of the IUCN (1948), to the launch of the People’s Earth Charter at The Peace Palace in 2000—and show why, after fifty years of scientific warning, we must now embrace the peoples' Earth Charter’s unifying ecological wise vision and integrated eco-social principles. More than a policy document, the Earth Charter, with contributions from peoples of all professions and cultures, offers a living, ecological ethical compass—and when paired with ecoliterate creatives who are skilled at facilitating safe brave fun spaces, it meets people where they are, speaking to their hearts and consciences in ways that are deeply personal and locally relevant.

Why It Matters

In these urgent times, data and deadlines alone won’t carry us forward—no matter how crucial decades of scientific warnings have been. Paradoxically, we must slow down and reflect on the collective values and narratives that guide our choices. We need safe, bold, even playful spaces where people of all ages can gather around a shared narrative—an ethical, ecosocial vision and principles like the People’s Earth Charter embodies. Forged by contributors from every profession, faith, and culture, the People's Earth Charter truly functions as a compass for a just, equitable, life-affirming ecological era. Increasingly, the Earth Charter is being belatedly recognised as the missing ethical vision needed to guide all towards Agenda 2030, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and the emerging Global Pact for the Future.

Angelina and her collaborators demonstrate the grassroots power of this people-led Earth Charter, which is far more than a top-down UN decree; it’s a living set of principles that reawakens our belonging to the community of life and sparks citizen agency in ways facts and figures and one-size-fits-all all policy alone cannot. As Ireland embarks on its ecoliteracy journey, socially skilled community creatives—armed with the Earth Charter’s unifying narrative—may be our most authentic means of igniting meaningful, locally resonant conversations about what matters most.

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"Turning conscience into action" is the motto of the people's Earth Charter... so we can awaken all peoples hearts' for change at scale.

P.S. If you follow Angelina on Instagram (@bluewaystudio), you’ll see amazing behind-the-scenes work

P.P. S. I’m honoured to bring news of Angelina’s vibrant, Earth-Charter-inspired Prayer Flags and her collaborators’ creative projects and other Irish artists work with the Earth Charter—alongside the new Irish translation by Haumea Ecoversity advisor Phoebe Cope (supported by the Carlow Drummin Bog Project and Carlow Creative Ireland)—to the 25th-anniversary celebrations of the People’s Earth Charter at The Peace Palace (1–3 July) at The Hague, where the peoples' Earth Charter was first launched in 2000.

Though I’ll be attending the Earth Charter 25+ commemorations with just a few people from Ireland (unless you want to come too - details below?), I carry with me the creative spirit of Irish youth who recently presented the Earth Charter’s integrated eco-social wisdom in colourful performances at the Irish Senate. In all our diverse efforts for a better world, we need a fresh yet timeless unifying ecological vision—like the Earth Charter embodies—that weaves together the UDHR’s human-rights principles, Indigenous wisdom, IUCN ecological science, and the passion of sustainability educators, creatives, and social-justice and peace activists.
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“We stand at a critical moment in Earth’s history, a time when humanity must choose its future.”
Earth Charter Preamble

'This is our moment.

The three-day event, titled “Planetary Consciousness, Ethics of Care, and Intergenerational Justice,” will strengthen the Earth Charter’s position as a vision of radical hope and ethical guide in uncertain times.
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​We will celebrate 25 years of ongoing intercultural, interfaith, and intergenerational collaboration and wisdom sharing.

​During this event, Earth Charter International and hosts Earth Charter Netherlands will facilitate our impact and emphasise our shared responsibility to care for the planet and future generations. And you can be part of this. Don’t miss this opportunity to join the Earth Charter community gathering. Prepare for three days of inspiration with an exceptional lineup of speakers and participants who are leading the way toward a more just, peaceful and nature-inclusive world. Prepare to fill your heart and mind with radical hope for the future of all life and a shared belief in the power of care and an open mindset. '

​Hope to see you there at Earth Charter 25+ 🌾​

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