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Basic respect and appreciation of and love for the natural environment

Deeper Eco-Spirituality

Comprehension and respect for biodiversity in stability of symbiosis

Comprehension and respect for ecosystems as fragile habitats

  1. Total Human Development and Harmony Through Synergism

  2. Holistic Health Care and Medicine

  3. Deep Ecology and Harmony with Nature 

  4. Sense of History and Sense of Mission

  5. Civics and Democratic Governance

  6. Culture as Community Creativity

  7. Light-Seeking and Light-Sharing Education

  8. Gender Sensitivity, Equality & Harmony

  9. Reconstructive/Restor-ative Justice

10. Associative Economics, Social Capital and Sustainable Development

11. Synergetic Leadership and Organizations

12. Appropriate/Adaptive Technology

13. Mutual Enrichment of Families and Friendships

14. Human Dignity and Human Harmony: Human Rights and Peace

15. Aesthetics Without Boundaries: 'Art from the Heart'   

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A Giant Leap for Humankind

By Ed Aurelio C. Reyes

Chair-Emeritus (one of two), and secretary-general, World Environment Day-Philippines Network.

This poem/prayer was written in October 1999; translated into Bengali, Danish, Filipino, German,French, Japanese, and Swedish, before Earth Day (April) 2000. By now the translations number about 20. A multi-nationality solemn ceremony, called “Handshakes and Hugs for Earth Synergy,” was created along with the poem and centered on the sharing of personal responses to it and a chorused recitation of It. Versions of this cere-mony have been held in at least six countries during Earth Day 2000, and in more and more places during commemorations of Earth Day (April 22) and World Environment Day (June 5) all these past years

For Earth Synergy
in the new millennium 

nations of the world come together as one,
in body, mind and spirit,
to stand in reverence before the rest
of the bio-diverse citizens

     and elements of our living planet Gaia,
to take full responsibility / for past and present

     environmental destruction,
and to lovingly commit
a conscious synergy of efforts

rescue and heal, conserve and exalt,

our Mother Earth.

This is a giant leap for Humankind
right back to the bosom of our home planet,
undoubtedly a euphoric historic event
that heralds a new way of life
for all Earthians,
as we enter the new millennium.

Amen

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