A Historic Gathering Pacific Small Island Developing States, or PSIDS, are on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Every tenth of a degree of warming means another community forced to
On September 19, a group of concerned citizens from New York state and beyond gathered at Arctic Lake in Oquaga Creek State Park in upstate New York to begin a
Before coming to Union Theological Seminary, I worked at Sterling College in Vermont, where environmental protection, outdoor skills, expeditions and farming were part of how I learned to understand the
We often encounter the climate crisis through numbers: rising temperatures, carbon emissions, melting ice and projections of a warming planet. These measurements are essential to understanding the scale of the
I recently participated in the event “The Immorality of Inaction: Voicing Truth on Climate” at Riverside Church in New York City. It was such a profound event, taking place just
The Center for Earth Ethics is excited to announce the Intelligence of Place Network, a Columbia Climate School Earth Network co-directed by CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore, Susan Bodnar, PhD
The lethal consequences of the climate crisis fill today’s headlines. This year alone, a collapsing glacier unleashed flooding that has killed or displaced thousands of people in Nepal and Tibet.
“Water is not a commodity. In some ways, it’s a covenant: it carries memories, it sustains life and it carries the sacred,” reflected Union Theological Seminary President Lisa Thompson while
This past June, the Center for Earth Ethics hosted “Spirit of Place, Spirit of Earth: An Eco-Justice Training” at the Ashokan Center in New York’s Hudson Valley. More than 120
On Monday, June 22, leaders from the Brazilian government and the Global Ethical Stocktake network gathered for the world premiere of “A People’s Stocktake—A Story of the Global Ethical Stocktake.”