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Join with millions in the common purpose to achieve the objectives of this global vision Charter, and help create a culture of lasting peace on Earth.  Download a PDF of the single-page Charter.

Protect natural heritage and biodiversity

• respect the Earth and take responsibility for all our actions, realising the interconnectedness of life; • protect in perpetuity and cease further destruction of all remaining biodiverse old-growth native forests and other areas of high conservation value including lakes, rivers and oceans; • prohibit the contamination of air, soil and waterways; • accelerate training and employment programs to help repair previously-cleared and degraded land; • plant and intergrow with companion vegetation, increasing quantities of appropriate trees to help repair the atmosphere; • preserve and maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, plants and animals in their natural habitats.

Honour the UN Charter and respect all peoples

• uphold the United Nations draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; • engage with Indigenous Peoples to learn from their history, cultures and spiritual values; • support self-determination and sovereign treaty rights worldwide; • facilitate permanent representation of the world’s Indigenous Nations and Peoples in all United Nations forums; • honour the inheritance of traditional languages, knowledge, sacred materials and sites; • learn from the wisdom of elders of all cultures.

Enable ecologically sustainable development

• adopt the world’s best practices and reduce, reuse and recycle to minimise our consumption of Earth's finite resources; • educate for a sustainable world population by providing comprehensive and free family-planning assistance; • design adequate sustainable habitat to end homelessness; • introduce into all education systems, reverence for nature, permaculture, the skills of birthing and parenting, first-aid, effective communication, self-esteem and creative artistic expression; • co-operate internationally to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by replacing fossil-fuel use with safe and renewable energy technologies; • disengage from nuclear industries and stop uranium mining until safety is ensured from all radioactive  materials, mine tailings and by-products from the nuclear cycle;  • implement a moratorium on releasing genetically engineered crops which can interfere irreversibly with natural biodiversity; • label accordingly all foods altered with DNA technology; • increase the provision and efficient use of public transport systems; • utilise environmentally responsible products and services, and deal only with materials manufactured or created within the principles of ecologically sustainable development; • contribute to inter-generational equity by progressively planning for the wellbeing of future generations.  

Acquire health and immunity efficiency

• incorporate a complementary and wholistic approach to health care and medical science; • practise the wisdom of Hippocrates, who taught, “Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food”; • attain and maintain physical and mental wellbeing by combining an optimistic attitude, sleep, exercise and a nutritious diet of fresh, organically grown foods, including sprouted seeds, nuts and grains, raw fruits, vegetables and herbs; • abstain from health-reducing practices, substances, smoking tobacco and all drug abuse; • inspire everyone to realise their highest physical, mental and spiritual potential.

Use permaculture to help end world hunger

• supersede unsustainable monoculture, toxic pesticide use and intensive animal factory-farming with high-yielding, diverse, local, organic agricultural systems and free-range animal farming; • establish efficient food and medicine gardens as productive permaculture learning and growing centres, in schools, backyards, parks, gaols and rehabilitation facilities; • propagate, plant and  care for trees, intercropped with complementary vegetation, in all possible city, urban and rural areas to produce fruits, nuts, vegetables, herbs, grains, fibre, timber and fuel to reduce unemployment and help end hunger and poverty; • promote individual and community self-reliance through local exchange trading systems, and natural low-impact landcare strategies.

Practise composting to restore soils 

• produce valuable humus-rich soil for home, municipal, farm and forestry use, by composting all currently-wasted biodegradable materials; • replace artificial fertilisers with fine rock-dust and humus to remineralise soils, increase the nutrient value of food crops and boost resistance to plant disease; • treat sewage to irrigate vegetation and rejuvenate degraded lands.

Base economic order on social justice

• promote equal opportunity for everyone; • demand that corporate business and governments put the welfare of people before profits and military spending; • support the U.N. and grant amnesty for political prisoners, and relieve the debt burdens of impoverished countries; • aim for fair resource distribution to satisfy the essential needs of all to live with health and dignity.

Resolve conflict with creative mediation

• learn, develop and encourage the skills of conflict resolution; • expedite participatory democracy between people and their elected governments and councils; • establish a department of peace within every government; • nurture equality, love, respect and understanding between individuals, genders, age groups, families, castes, communities, cultures and races; • encourage all religions, faiths, nations and peoples to co-exist in harmony as one family, sharing the Earth as our common home; • facilitate equal worldwide access to education resources and communication technologies; • ensure basic human rights and freedom of speech for all; • investigate and rectify all human rights violations; • stop the glamorisation of war and violence; • motivate the media to be positive, accurate and responsible.

Transform the military to earth repair

• redirect funding, technological expertise and resources of all national military services towards implementing this solution strategy as the priority within each country; • enable all nations to participate in developing the United Nations Global Peacekeeping Operations to ensure international security; • decommission and eliminate nuclear and biological armaments, depleted uranium, land mines and all instruments of mass destruction.

Unite with others in a common purpose

• rescue the future by helping achieve the local and global objectives of this Charter; • network to raise awareness of this solution strategy and propose its goals for adoption by education, religious, union, political, business, legal, military and community groups, local Councils, and for legislation by Governments; • contribute towards a peaceful and abundant Earth, where everyone can enjoy life in wisdom, happiness, harmony and love.

Produced by the Earth Repair Foundation and the Environment Program of United Nations Association of Australia (NSW) Inc. PO Box 503, Katoomba NSW 2780 Australia.  Phone: (02) 4782 2625, Fax: (02) 4782 9107, Int’nl Code: +61 2,  E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it     Internet: www.earthrepair.net  This Charter was initiated in 1992 at the Rio Earth Summit. It has grown through the contribution of many hundreds of people. Join us!

Most people on Earth would know about this solution strategy from two people in 33 days, if they each shared it with one new person a day for 33 days, and each person receiving the strategy shared it with one new person a day for the balance of the 33 days.  Totals over 6 billion people.  When enough people lead our leaders will follow.