Saturday, April 20, 2024, from 6 a.m. to Noon PDT, via Livestream - the Episcopal Dioceses of Western Massachusetts is having an Earth Day 2024 celebration to mark the conclusion of the Creation Care Justice Network's pilot program An Episcopal Path to Creation Justice - a new initiative to equip churches for deep and broad work in creation care.
The event will feature presentations by Dr. Mary Evelyn Tucker, with Bill McKibben and Robin Wall-Kimmerer joining virtually. The day will conclude with a celebratory Eucharist officiated by Bishop Carol Gallagher and Bishop Doug Fisher.
The Livestream will be available on their Province 1 YouTube channel.
Mary Evelyn Tucker 'is the co-founder and co-director of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology with her husband, John Allen Grim. Tucker teaches in the joint Master's program in religion and ecology at Yale University between the School of the Environment, and the Divinity School. She also has an appointment at Yale's Department of Religious Studies. She teaches three online courses on Journey of the Universe and The Worldview of Thomas Berry.
Bill McKibben "is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the leader of the climate campaign group 350.org. He has authored a dozen books about the environment, including Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? (2020), about the state of the environmental challenges facing humanity and future prospects."
Robin Wall-Kimmerer is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, who has written numerous scientific articles and the New York Times Bestseller, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (2015)