This is a living document sharing both what we strive to achieve at the Center for Humans & Nature as a workplace and what stands at the core of the Center’s work itself, as reflected in our mission and values.
The Center for Humans & Nature embraces the work of coming together to re-envision* our human and natural communities — communities to which all can belong*. We believe ideas and actions that honor the kinship* of humans with and within the natural world provide the very foundation for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
We live in a time of widespread questioning and examination of the structures and narratives that entangle racism, inequality, violence, environmental degradation, toxic individualism, and unethical economics. If, as Dr. Martin Luther King stated, “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” it will only do so as we all work to recognize and heal ancestral* and ongoing wounds that we inherit and carry—in our own bodies and in the social and ecological bodies in which we are embedded.
The Center for Humans & Nature works to celebrate and affirm life-sustaining relationships within our board, staff, and partner communities, in our publishing practices, and in our relationships with the land.
In short, the Center’s mission to explore and promote our responsibilities to each other and the whole community of life keeps us squarely focused—in all that we do—on the ideas, perspectives, stories, and practices that can support and inspire our collective flourishing.
*Each of these links offers diverse insights on topics such as kinship, community, and belonging from contributors to Humans & Nature Press.
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