AIMS OF THE CEA
Preserve & Protect Natural Ecosystems: We seek to establish sanctuaries to support and foster life, working to protect biodiversity and return places under our care to their original states. Our team is working to accomplish this by fundraising and working to acquire land to follow through with our many projects and conservation initiatives (see SANCTUARY).
Community Outreach & Education: Working with people and building personal connections is one of the most important aspects of environmental protection. Wild places need protection, because human beings have neglected the land and taken more from it than it can naturally sustain. Helping to teach people about our impact on the planet and how to reverse the damage is a cornerstone to our work. We will also be offering courses online and in-person after the COVID-19 pandemic that center around the environment, permaculture, and living in tune with the planet. We are also working on establishing the Environmental Learning Center which will serve as an education arm of the CEA.
Environmental Activism: Working to raise awareness on environmental and conservation issues is essential to bringing about positive change. Inspiring people to go outside and pick up litter in a roadside ditch, or plant trees at a park is a powerful thing. Great change can be achieved by everyday people completing earth-centric acts of kindness.
Eating Closer to the Sun: Providing education on food chains and food production is important. Looking at the ethical implications associated with food production and finding ways to produce more with less land is closely linked to environmental conservation. Our gardening and permaculture courses and sanctuary projects will explain how eating a close to the sun plant-based diet is easily achievable and one of the best ways to support life on earth.
Recognizing the Autonomy of Nature: We are to act as stewards and custodians to the land. We are to act as guardians and protectors of these natural resources. These places don't have value because we have something to gain and take from them, they have value because they foster life and are living. Realizing that land and nature has a right to coexist alongside human beings is a great way to protect it. We are looking for ways to have natural areas recognized as rights bearing entities as other natural bodies have been across the globe.