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Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System

This is an archive of prayers and song composed for, or relevant to, the Earth, our collective home and life support system.

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“A veritable universal pledge of allegiance to this planet and to its peoples,” by Adlai E. Stevenson Ⅱ (9 July 1965)

This is an excerpt from a speech given on 9 July 1965 by Adlai Ewing Stevenson Ⅱ (1900-1965), his final speech before the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. (The US ambassador to the UN passed away less than a week later in London on 14 July.) In 1971, the prominent environmental leader (and then executive director of Friends of the Earth) David Brower (1912-2000), described the quote as “A veritable universal pledge of allegiance to this planet and to its peoples” in his own speech, “What Organizations and Industry Should Do,” delivered at the First International Conference on Environmental Future, held in Finland from 27 June to 3 July 1971. The speech was published in the proceedings of the conference, The Environmental Future (ed. Nicholas Polunin, 1973), p. 478. . . .

Categories: Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, 🌐 Earth Day (22 April)

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., earth pledges, universalist

Contributor(s): Adlai E. Stevenson Ⅱ and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Earth Pledge, by an Unknown Author (ca. 1980)

The earliest “Earth Pledge” circulated between Earth Day 1970 and 1983. . . .

Categories: Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, 🌐 Earth Day (22 April)

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., earth pledges, eco-conscious, eco-feminism, universalist

Contributor(s): Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

The Global Pledge of Allegiance, by Edna A. Maisner-Reitz (1988)

This “Global Pledge of Allegiance” by Edna A. Meisner-Reitz was first published in The Quest, vol. 2, issue 4, Winter 1989 (Theosophical Society of America), back cover. . . .

Categories: Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, 🌐 Earth Day (22 April)

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, Cold War (1985–1991), earth pledges, eco-conscious, eco-feminism, universalist

Contributor(s): Edna A. Maisner-Reitz and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Pledge of Allegiance to the Family of Earth, by Bella Abzug & Mim Kelber (Women’s Foreign Policy Council, 1989)

The “Pledge of Allegiance to the Family of Earth” was offered by the Women’s Foreign Policy Council (co-chaired by Bella Abzug and Mim Kelber). The earliest publiclation of the pledge that we were able to located is as found in the article, “Earthlings Unite” by Nina Combs in Ms. Magazine, vol. 18:1&2 (July/August 1989), p. 19. . . .

Categories: Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, 🌐 Earth Day (22 April)

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, Cold War (1985–1991), earth pledges, eco-conscious, eco-feminism, universalist

Contributor(s): Mim Kelber, Bella Savitzky Abzug and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Peas on Earth, a song by the Jewish environmental educators of the Teva Learning Center (Fall 2010)

A pun filled ditty by the Fall 2010 Jewish environmental educators of the Teva Learning Center. . . .

Categories: Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., eco-conscious, humor, peace, Prayers of Jewish Farmers, punning, Teva Learning Alliance, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Oración por nuestra tierra | תְּפִילָת הָאָרֶץ | A Prayer for Our Earth, an ecumenical prayer by Pope Francis, translated and adapted by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid·org)

An ecumenical prayer by Pope Francis from his encyclical, Laudato Si (praise be to you) from May 24th, 2015. Here’s my draft of a Hebrew translation of Pope Francis’ prayer for our earth. It turns out no one had translated it yet. The translation includes sparks from the High Holiday liturgy. I thought we should have it available for Rosh Hashanah, even though I’m sure the translation could use more work and more feedback. . . .

Categories: Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, 🌐 Earth Day (22 April)

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Catholic and Apostolic Church, eco-conscious, ecoḥasid, ecumenical prayers, Hebrew translation, North America, Northampton, Vatican City

Contributor(s): David Seidenberg (translation), Neohasid·org, Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Jorge Mario Bergoglio

The Earth is Our Temple, a d’var tefilah on making blessings over foods by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid·org)

The Talmud (Brakhot 35a-b) teaches that eating food without saying a brakhah (a blessing) beforehand is like stealing. A lot of people know that teaching, and it’s pretty deep. But here’s an even deeper part: the Talmud doesn’t call it “stealing”, but מעילה ׁ(“me’ilah“), which means taking from sacred property that belongs to the Temple. So that means that everything in the world is sacred and this Creation is like a HOLY TEMPLE. . . .

Categories: Blessings Before Eating, Fasting, Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Tishah b'Av Readings

Tags: blessings, ברכות brakhot, eco-conscious, ecoḥasid

Contributor(s): David Seidenberg, Neohasid·org and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17

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