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for UNCED. He has been closely associated with communication initiatives of UNEP, especially those
connected with Ozone. Under his leadership CEE organized the first International Conference of the Decade
of Education for Sustainable Development in January 2005. Mr. Sarabhai received the Tree of Learning
Award from The World Conservation Union in 1998 in appreciation of his contributions to the field of
environmental education and communication. In 2005, The Indian Institute of Human Rights presented Mr.
Sarabhai with the World Human Rights Promotion Award.
Tommy Short (United States)
Chairman and Co-Founder
Earth Council Alliance
1220 Rosecrans St., #418
San Diego, CA 92106 USA
Tommy Short is chairman of Earth Council Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering a
sustainable global society based on the principles of the Earth Charter. He is an international business man
and philanthropist who has long supported sustainability projects around the world. In the past two decades,
he has travelled extensively in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, working with local communities and
organizations to identify and fund projects that support the environment, youth, and the arts. As co-founder
and chairman of the Earth Council Alliance, Mr. Short has taken further strides in identifying opportunities
and communicating sustainability to numerous organizations with co-founder, Maurice Strong.
Mary Evelyn Tucker (United States)
Yale University
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
205 Prospect Street
New Haven CT 06511 - USA
Mary Evelyn Tucker received her PhD from Columbia University in East Asian religions. She was named to a
dual appointment with the Yale Divinity School and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Previously she was a visiting professor of religion at Yale University, and she is founder and coordinator of
the Forum on Religion and Ecology. Along with John Grim, she organized a ten-conference series on World
Religions and Ecology at Harvard’s Center for the Study of World Religions, which led to the publication
of 10 volumes by Harvard from this series. She co-edited the volumes on the ecological dimensions of
Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. They are also editors of a series of 18 books on Ecology and Justice
from Orbis Books. Tucker has been a committee member of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment
at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) since 1986, and is vice president of the American
Teilhard Association. She was a member of the Earth Charter International Drafting Committee.
She has published Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (Open Court Press, 2003) and
edited two volumes on Confucian Spirituality with Tu Weiming. Her newest books are an edited volume of
Thomas Berry’s papers titled Evening Thoughts: Reflecting of the Earth as Sacred Community (Sierra Club
Books and University of California Press, 2006), and The Record of Great Doubts: The Philosophy of Ch’i
(Columbia University Press, 2007).
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