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CEE August 2023 Update – Summer Reflections and Looking Towards Climate Week

September 8, 2023

Sacred Work, Local and Global CEE Panel at the Waterfall Unity Festival, Skóhare, NY, July 2023. Photo by Aja Two Crows “Regenerating the part of the self that has been lost to colonization and the state of the world moves the human agenda toward valuing harmony between people and the planet.” In this reflection, Aja Two Crows recounts a discussion of local and international advocacy for Indigenous peoples and traditional ecological knowledge at July’s Waterfall Unity Festival, held at the end of July in upstate New York. Read More The Harvest Through the Weeds The UN “Stocktaking Moment” in Rome highlighted the dangers

CEE May 2023 Update

May 25, 2023

Indigenous Leaders Explore Spiritualities, Colonization and the Environment at CEE Forum On Tuesday, April 25, Kenyan community organizer and youth leader Carson Kiburo, Greenland anthropologist-activist Qivioq Løvstrøm, and Philippine Indigenous advocate Donato Bumacas explored how traditional Indigenous beliefs relate to ecologically sound cultural practices and discussed the challenges facing Indigenous beliefs and life systems. Kasike R. Múkaro Borrero (Guainía Taíno Tribe) moderated. Read More and View Event Radical Realism about our Planetary Plight On April 24, Christian environmental ethicist Larry Rasmussen visited Union to discuss his new book. “The Planet You Inherit”. Read More World Bank Roadmap Fails to

Restoring Brigid, Restoring Justice

January 10, 2023

Editor’s Note. This article was originally posted by Shannon M.D. Smith on the Women of the Water website as “A Time of Justice, A Season of Renewal” in January 2021 and on the CEE website on March 8, 2021 to mark President Biden’s Proclamation on Irish-American Heritage Month, 2021. CEE is reposting it now to lift up St. Brigid’s Day, celebrated on February 1 in Ireland. Beginning this year, Brigid’s Day will be an official bank holiday in the country, to be commemorated on the first Monday in February. We sing a song to BrigidBrigid brings the springAwakens all the fields and flowersAnd calls the birds to sing…

CEE December 2022 Update

December 22, 2022

“Values, Culture, Spirituality, and Ecosystem Restoration” at COP15 The “Values, Culture, Spirituality, and Ecosystem Restoration,” a side event on December 13 at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, explored a values-based approach to preserving biodiversity and launched a groundbreaking conversation guidebook.Read More Faith + Food Coalition Publishes Report on Women in MENA Region This report, announced at COP27, summarizes findings from a dialogue among local women leaders in the Middle East and North Africa region that focused on how women of faith are confronting the challenges of food security and climate change in the region.Read More New Resources