Project Earthrise: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of in VIVO Planetary Health

Susan L. Prescott, Ganesa Wegienka, Remco Kort, David H. Nelson, Sabine Gabrysch, Trevor Hancock, Anita Kozyrskyj, Christopher A. Lowry, Nicole Redvers, Blake Poland, Jake Robinson, Jean-Claude Moubarac, Sara Warber, Janet Jansson, Aki Sinkkonen, John Penders, Susan Erdman, Ralph Nanan, Matilda van den Bosch, Kirk Schneider, Nicholas J. Schroeck, Tanja Sobko, Jamie Harvie, George A. Kaplan, Rob Moodie, Laura Lengnick, Isaac Prilleltensky, Yuria Celidwen, Susan H. Berman, Alan C. Logan and Brian Berman
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Susan L. Prescott: NOVA Institute for Health of People, Places and Planet, 1407 Fleet Street, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Ganesa Wegienka: Department of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Remco Kort: Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
David H. Nelson: Independent Researcher, Woodstock, ON N4S 6Y9, Canada
Sabine Gabrysch: Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Trevor Hancock: School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2, Canada
Anita Kozyrskyj: Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, Alberta, Edmonton Clinic Health Academy, Edmonton, AB T6G 1C9, Canada
Christopher A. Lowry: Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Nicole Redvers: School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202, USA
Blake Poland: Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 3M7, Canada
Jake Robinson: Department of Landscape, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Jean-Claude Moubarac: Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montréal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada
Sara Warber: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Janet Jansson: Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, DC 99352, USA
Aki Sinkkonen: Natural Resources Institute Finland, Itäinen Pitkäkatu 4, 20520 Turku, Finland
John Penders: Department of Medical Microbiology, School for Nutrition & Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM) and Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht UMC+ [University Medical Centre], 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands
Susan Erdman: Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Ralph Nanan: Sydney Medical School–Nepean, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia
Matilda van den Bosch: School of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Kirk Schneider: Existential-Humanistic Institute, San Francisco, CA 94901, USA
Nicholas J. Schroeck: School of Law, University of Detroit Mercy, 651 East Jefferson Ave., Detroit, MI 48226, USA
Tanja Sobko: School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Jamie Harvie: Institute for a Sustainable Future, Duluth, MN 55802, USA
George A. Kaplan: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Rob Moodie: School of Population and Global Health (MSPGH), University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
Laura Lengnick: Cultivating Resilience, LLC, Asheville, NC 28805, USA
Isaac Prilleltensky: School of Education and Human Development, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA
Yuria Celidwen: Independent Researcher, New York, NY 10017, USA
Susan H. Berman: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Alan C. Logan: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Brian Berman: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 20, 1-101

Abstract: The “Earthrise” photograph, taken on the 1968 Apollo 8 mission, became one of the most significant images of the 20th Century. It triggered a profound shift in environmental awareness and the potential for human unity—inspiring the first Earth Day in 1970. Taking inspiration from these events 50 years later, we initiated Project Earthrise at our 2020 annual conference of in VIVO Planetary Health. This builds on the emergent concept of planetary health, which provides a shared narrative to integrate rich and diverse approaches from all aspects of society towards shared solutions to global challenges. The acute catastrophe of the COVID-19 pandemic has drawn greater attention to many other interconnected global health, environmental, social, spiritual, and economic problems that have been underappreciated or neglected for decades. This is accelerating opportunities for greater collaborative action, as many groups now focus on the necessity of a “Great Transition”. While ambitious integrative efforts have never been more important, it is imperative to apply these with mutualistic value systems as a compass, as we seek to make wiser choices. Project Earthrise is our contribution to this important process. This underscores the imperative for creative ecological solutions to challenges in all systems, on all scales with advancing global urbanization in the digital age—for personal, environmental, economic and societal health alike. At the same time, our agenda seeks to equally consider our social and spiritual ecology as it does natural ecology. Revisiting the inspiration of “Earthrise”, we welcome diverse perspectives from across all dimensions of the arts and the sciences, to explore novel solutions and new normative values. Building on academic rigor, we seek to place greater value on imagination, kindness and mutualism as we address our greatest challenges, for the health of people, places and planet.

Keywords: planetary health; grand challenges; Anthropocene; Symbiocene; collaboration; interdependence; social and economic justice; interdisciplinary research; resilience thinking; the great transition; biodiversity losses; climate change; environmental degradation; public health; ecology; anthropology; political/social/environmental sciences; philosophy; geography; spirituality; human culture; history and tradition; architecture and design; arts; ethics; wisdom; and Indigenous governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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