languaging earth community

The term Earth Community comes from the Earth Charter, a declaration of university responsibility to and for one another and the living Earth created through a process that began with the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and carried forward through a multiyear collaborative process involving hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals of diverse religious faiths, cultures, races, languages, and nationalities.

The term Community of Practice comes from Meg Wheatley & Deborah Frieze, "Using Emergence to Take Social Innovations to Scale." It is a group of people who share particular interests and form committed relationships to advance a field of knowledge and practice with a focus on sharing discoveries with a wider audience of people doing related work.