Earth Care International's mission is to educate and empower youth to create a thriving, just and sustainable world.
A 501 (c) 3 education and empowerment organization
THE HEART OF SUSTAINABILITYSustainability is commonly defined as the ability to meet today's global economic, environmental and social needs without compromising the same opportunity for future generations. The very concept of sustainability did not become meaningful until we began to imagine that human activities could create a condition of ecological, social, and cultural unsustainability.
Earth Care International believes the heart of sustainability is caring for the Earth and ensuring that thriving ecosystems - our life support - exist into an infinite future.
Earth Care works with sustainability as a process and a way of seeing the world through which communities can transform the economic and social systems that damage or weaken the integrity of the Earths ecosystems. Because modern dominant human societies are threatening the Earth, the work of Earth Care is at its core a social endeavor to transform people and the systems they function in.
YOUTHIn creating a sustainable world, young people have an essential role to play in the process of change. When authentically engaged, youth serve an essential and vital role in communities as energizers - bringing new ideas and thinking to the table, and the willingness to implement new ideas without being stymied by past failures. This energizing and creative force is essential to building sustainable communities.
However, results of Gallup and Roper poles that show that up to 70% of today's youth feel disenfranchised and hopeless about their futures. Youth are often seen as problem-makers rather than assets to communities.
The devaluing and forgetting of the essential role of youth is one of the often unrecognized contributing factors to the unsustainability of communities. When disenfranchised, youth energy is transformed into dysfunctional behaviors and results in negative impacts and consequences for the community - taking us further from sustainability and from our ability to care for the Earth. In order for youth contribute to positive change, we must address their disenfranchisement in modern communities.
Earth Care offers young people the opportunity to participate in their community and to become visionary leaders capable of creating an abundant and sustainable world. These leaders make choices that improve their relationship to the earth, one another, and ultimately the world.
Using sustainability education, we work with youth to understand connections between social, economic, and cultural issues to create a world that operates in harmony with natural systems.
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This multi-level program for youth engagement, leadership, and organizing provides opportunities for young people to discover their voices, act on their convictions for a more just and sustainable world, and realize their full potential as individuals, community members, and stewards of the earth. The Youth Allies Institite is a partnership with Santa Fe Mountain Center and many other community-based organizations in Northern New Mexico.
Earth Care offers Sustainability Courses in the public schools that focus on sustainability.
These are full-semester courses through which students obtain credit towards graduation. Our licensed & Earth Care-trained educators teach
the courses.
Economics, Environmental Science, Government, and Electives.
Over 500 students directly served
 Earth Care teaches teachers to integrate sustainability content and teaching methods into their curricula.
Individual Teacher Training
Teacher and Administration Working Groups
School-wide Sustainability Integration
Offered through Santa Fe Public Schools Professional Development Academy
Over 50 teachers and administrators directly impacted & 6000 students indirectly impacted. 
Sustainable Santa Fe: A Resource Guide
is a free annual publication created through the partnership of youth
and adults. Each October 40,000 copies are distributed in Santa Fe and
beyond. 192 pages of articles, art work, and photographs highlight the
incredible work our community is doing to create a thriving, just, and
sustainable world.
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Announcements
Earth Care Teacher Institute for Sustainability Education
July 26 - August 1
Are you concerned about the state of the world today? Do you want to be inspired by innovative approaches to addressing sustainability? Do you want to learn to enable young people to become the next generation of leaders in creating a sustainable society? Change the world through education by participating in the Earth Care Teacher Institute this summer, 2008. Learn how you can contribute to a thriving, just and sustainable future through education.
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Library Management Volunteer
Position now available! Help us make our educational resources available to teachers, youth, and the community.
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To raise your awareness about the increasing urgency of work such as Earth Care's, take a moment to visit the following website: Global Climate Change
Earth Care's work is made possible through the generosity of private individuals, foundations, and the following businesses.
 
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