EarthPledge.org partners with businesses for earth friendly operation
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Earth Pledge-Innovative Environmental Solutions
Description
Earth Pledge identifies and promotes innovative techniques and technologies that restore the balance between human and natural systems. Through demonstration, education, and research, we deliver viable models to government, industry, and communities. The New York region is our laboratory for implementing replicable solutions that will inspire and facilitate a global transition to sustainability.
Earth Pledge is a nonprofit organization that originated as a United Nations committee chaired by Theodore W. Kheel to promote interest in the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. To aid in his efforts, Kheel enlisted the support of his friend and internationally acclaimed artist Robert Rauschenberg, who created Last Turn, Your Turn (1991), the official artwork of the Earth Summit. The proceeds from the sales of these limited-edition prints were contributed to Earth Pledge.
THEODORE W. KHEEL, founder and president of Earth Pledge, is a lawyer, arbitrator, and mediator. He is a former president of the National Urban League and member of numerous government-appointed fact-finding boards. The New York Times has declared him “the most influential peacemaker in New York City in the last half-century.”
