It’s hard to say if the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP27, was good or bad. It’s a question of perspective and orientation. What was COP27, which recently
The world needs “a sustained conversation between advocates of freedom of religion or belief and advocates of the rights of Indigenous peoples.” That was a central message from Professor Ahmed
This month, Union Theological Seminary published a profile of CEE founder and executive director, Karenna Gore. In her interview, Gore, a Union alumna, spoke about her “transformative education” at Union,
As we work on ecosystem restoration, we need to be cognizant of the structures and histories that brought us to the place that we’re in today. Our current institutions, the
Food and water insecurity. Population growth. Diet and nutrition. These three conditions combined – exacerbated by climate change – are creating challenges and even failures of food systems in the
The climate crisis is a present, existential threat, yet there is still time to change course and genuine reasons to be hopeful. That was a central message at the “Earth Day
During the closing plenary session of the fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly, or UNEA 5.2, earlier this year, representatives gave a standing ovation for the passing of
I was grateful for the opportunity to speak at a dialogue, “Faiths Respond to Stockholm+50,” organized by Faith for Earth Initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme on March 4,
“Power must be challenged by power,” wrote Reinhold Niebuhr in “Moral Man and Immoral Society,” and so it felt during the COP26 gathering in Glasgow. There were the representatives of the
On the 49th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, Executive Director Karenna Gore penned a guest column, “The common wealth of water,” in the Virginia Mercury. Gore urged Virginia’s state government