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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 413
Northwest Earth Institute
Nuclear Age for Peace Foundation
Pathways to Peace
Pax Christi
Population Coalition
Rain Forest Action Network
School Sisters of Notre Dame
Sierra Club National
Sisters of Charity Halifax
Social Ventures Network
SGI-USA
The National Conference for Community & Justice
TIKKUN Magazine
True Majority
US Conference of Mayors
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
We the People
Women of Vision & Action
YES! Magazine
Wilderness Society
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Notice this list of organizations includes organizations representing Christian Churches,
U.S. city governments and U.S. mayors.
The Earth charter is also endorsed by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO).
“UNESCO, along with The Twentieth Century Fund (now called The Century Foundation) and
the Ford Foundation” were in large part responsible for the formation of the IBO in Geneva,
Switzerland in 1968. The professed purpose of the IBO was to “provide a common educational
basis for international students that would be acceptable to universities around the world.”
Current activities of the IBO make its original purpose suspect.
“Presently, almost 1,300 schools around the globe are authorized to offer IBO programs.
And in the US and Canada, just under 650 schools are tied in to the IBO, with 473 in the US.”
These numbers are frightening considering the IBO’s current activities. Not only has the IBO
endorsed the Earth Charter, they are also looking for ways to incorporate it into many of their
curriculums including: “Theory of Knowledge, Environmental Systems, Environmental Science,
Technology and Social Change, Peace and Conflict Studies, Experimental Science, Philosophy,
Geography, History, Math, and the Arts.”
The IBO has also “been involved in prep work for the UN’s World Summit on
Sustainable Development, it’s involved in a number of UN International Schools, and the
organization works with a variety of United Nations Model programs.” In spite of the IBO’s
involvement with the Earth Charter or maybe because of it, the IBO was awarded a $1.17 million
grant by the U.S. Department of Education. This grant was established to create partnerships
between the IBO and six middle schools and high schools in disadvantaged areas of
Massachusetts, New York and Arizona.
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