View of Guiyang from Dongshan Temple "China’s emerging framework of Ecological Civilization is reshaping what conservation can mean—expanding the public discourse beyond protected areas and species recovery to include culture, livelihoods, and the ethical foundations of human–nature relationship." ~ Garrison Institute The Pathways to Planetary Health initiative at the Garrison Institute  and the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology are co-sponsoring a series of 5 webinars. " T

While the current U. S. Administration is calling climate change a hoax, Columbia Climate School in New York City offers   7 Climate Experts on What We Can Still Do to Fight Climate Change : "We need more grassroots initiatives. Meet people old school–style in cafes or at local businesses or nonprofit organizations, spend time getting to know them, and come up with collective plans for sustainable living,” ~ Radhika Iyengar "The most important thing you can do about climate c

Photo Credit: Lake Atitlán, Guatemala; Max Harpur/Unsplash "We dwell within an intricate and evolving community of planetary life. The world speaks—to itself and to us—in a multitude of voices, each representing a unique way of being and knowing. Many of these voices are organic, such as birds, mushrooms, and trees. Others are elemental bodies like rivers and mountains. Yet each is an integral member of the whole. Since our species emerged in evolutionary history, we have pra

On October 27, 2025, just ahead of the November 2025 COP30 summit in Brazil, billionaire investor Bill Gates issued a memo: Three Tough Truths About Climate advising world leaders that global warming “will not lead to humanity’s demise” and that efforts to reduce emissions are “diverting resources from the most effective things we should be doing to improve life in a warming world.” Is he right? Climate Scientists Respond With Urgency Covering Climate Now and Sammy Roth, wh

I am not a scientist, so I asked Google Gemini: "What is the evidence for climate change?" Gemini said: "The scientific evidence for climate change is extensive, with observations from the atmosphere, oceans, and land confirming global changes." "There is an overwhelming scientific consensus that human activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels, are the primary cause." Key evidence includes:  Global Temperature Rise: Earth's average surface temperature has increase

. Churches take to the streets: WCC joins massive climate justice march in Brazil at COP30. COP30 in Brazil is in its final days, mid-November, Bloomberg reports : " Dozens of countries are pushing for the COP30 summit to deliver a ' road map away from fossil fuel use ' as its key outcome,.. At the United Nations meeting, representatives from the Marshall Islands, Colombia, the UK, Germany, Kenya, and Sierra Leone led a group of about 20 countries in calling for a path to sh

"The EcoCiv Institute (EcoCiv) first emerged as a vision of the scholar and activist John B. Cobb, Jr.  A professor at the Claremont Graduate University and Claremont School of Theology and a leader in ecological thinking. Prof. Cobb wrote the founding work in eco-theology in 1971,   Is It Too Late? A Theology of Ecology . Over the decades that followed, Cobb published over 50 books, inspired two generations of scholars and activists, founded multiple organizations, and org

Earthbound: God at the Intersection of Climate and Justice is an invitation to live sustainably, rooted in our faith and our shared call...

This Image was generated by ChatGPT and has errors in only showing 6 Ages (missing the Ocean Age 1,500-1,800 BCE and using a wrong image for the Industrial Age). It is shown here to illustrate both the potential power and problems with AI technology, which has accelerated since Sachs' 2020 book! Jeffrey D. Sachs' 2020 book T he Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions grew out of three lectures given in 2017 at the Oxford School of Geography and Environ

June 24, 2025 - Today the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network   (SDSN) released their 10th edition of the Sustainable...

"In a world grappling with converging crises, we often look outward – for new tech, new markets, new distractions. But the deeper issue...

Third Act Faith is currently offering an exploration of Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects, "a set of simple but profound practices to build strength and resilience for our work to heal the world.

Wikipedia defines " religious naturalism " as a "framework for religious orientation in which a naturalist worldview is used to respond...

On March 12, 2025, a Creation Justice Webinar: America in Search of a Soul was co-hosted by the Rev. Dr. Brooks Berndt , who serves as the Minister of Environmental Justice for the United Church of Christ, and the Rev. Michael Malcom, who serves as the Executive Director for Alabama Interfaith Power & Light and the People's Justice Council. The webinar drew its title from a 1976 sermon entitled “America in Search of a Soul,” by Howard Thurman, who prophetically understood t

In the YouTube video above, Project Drawdown Executive Director Jonathan Foley, Ph.D., discussed the importance of putting our energy toward new approaches and finding the right levers to solve climate change. He shared information on new leadership and new approaches, including: Steering away from a top-down geopolitical approach Prioritizing emergency brake solutions Geographically focusing action Enhancing health, well-being, equity, biodiversity, and the economy while a

August 27, 2024 , at 6 p.m. PDT - SOCAN's August monthly meeting will be Farming Sustainably at SOU, a field trip to the SOU farm at...

In her 2020 book Re-Enchanting the Earth: Why AI Needs Religion, Ilia Delio says: "The shift from the individual to the posthuman in the...

What does it feel like to live near an incinerator that burns trash? On July 18, 2024, Story of Stuff will delve into that question in...

Inside the Movement (ITM) is "a team of climate activists and journalists - the folks at EarthRise, Fossil Free Media, One Earth, The...

"The general public thinks Biden isn't doing enough to bring energy prices down. The environmental left thinks Biden has sold out to Big Oil