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Earth Charter Reflections Speakers
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Respect and Care for the
Community of Life, Ecological Integrity, Social and Economic
Justice, Democracy, Nonviolence and Peace
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Dr.
Peter Blaze Corcoran
is Professor of
Environmental Studies and Environmental Education at Florida Gulf Coast
University, where he serves as Director of the Center for Environmental
and Sustainability Education. He has been a Faculty Member at College of
the Atlantic, Swarthmore College, and Bates College, and a visiting
professor in Australia, The Netherlands, and Fiji. He works extensively
in international environmental education with special interest in the
South Pacific Island Nations. He is among the founders of the Global
Higher Education for Sustainability Partnership and has conducted their
consultations with stakeholders in tertiary education in many regions of
the world. He is Past President of the North American Association for
Environmental Education. Corcoran is on the President’s Advisory Council
of the National Wildlife Federation. He serves as Senior Fellow in
Education for Sustainability at University Leaders for a Sustainable
Future in Washington, DC, and is Senior Advisor to Earth Charter
International in San Jose, Costa Rica. His recent books are A Voice
for Earth: American Writers Respond to the Earth Charter
with A. James Wohlpart, University of Georgia Press (2008), The
Earth Charter in Action: Toward a Sustainable World published in the
Netherlands by Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) Publishers (2005), and
Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability: Contestation,
Critique, Practice, and Promise with Arjen Wals published in The
Netherlands by Kluwer Academic Press (2004). He is currently at work
with co-editor Philip Molo Osano on the book,
Young People, Education, and Sustainable Development: Exploring
Principles, Perspectives, and Praxis, to be published in The
Netherlands by Wageningen Academic Publishers in 2009.
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Dr.
Elisabeth Ferrero is professor of Humanities at Saint Thomas
University in Miami, Florida. Closely involved with the Earth
Charter process since 1998, she was appointed by the late Maximo Kalaw,
Director of the Earth Council, to produce the official Italian
translation of Draft II of the Earth Charter and tostart the National
Committee of the Earth Charter in Italy. With Dr. Joe Holland she
is the author of The Earth Charter: A Study Book of Reflection For
Action [Redwoods Press, 2002] which has been translated into Italian
[2003], Portuguese [2005] and currently into German. In Italy she
is recognized as a leading figure of the Earth Charter and regularly
holds conferences and seminars at various universities. She founded
Saint Thomas University Study Abroad For Earth [SAFE] program, which has
organized ecological study programs, many of which centered around the
Earth Charter, in Italy and in Ecuador [1991-1995]. For many
years, she organized major conferences in Assisi, Italy, on
Spirituality and Sustainability [1995-1998]. She is also a published
poet in both Italian and in English. Her latest book of poems is
Barefoot Mapping, Redwoods Press [ 2007]. She holds an M.A. and a Ph.D.
from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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Dr.
James Wohlpart, Associate Director of the Center for Environmental
and Sustainability Education, is a Professor of English and Associate
Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida Gulf Coast
University. He is a founding member of the faculty, having arrived in
August 1994, three years before the university opened. In the inaugural
year of Florida Gulf Coast University, he received the XX Award (The
Twenty) for his leadership in opening the new university. He has taught
courses in American Literature and Environmental Literature. His
latest publications have focused on the area of environmental literature
and engagement with place, including publications in the South Atlantic
Review on Emily Dickinson and on Orion online on the Riverwoods Field
Laboratory. He serves on the Board of the Estero Bay Buddies, a citizen
support organization, and was a founding member of ECOSanibel (Earth
Charter of Sanibel). When possible, he spends time quietly and gently
walking Earth.
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