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Virtual Event | Freedom to Be: The role of Indigenous spiritualities in averting climate catastrophe and safeguarding planetary health

This virtual panel will explore how this Indigenous spiritualities intersect with the climate crisis. Panelists will explore at how global Indigenous communities are affected by the same extractionist industries and land removal policies that drive climate change. They will investigate how Indigenous spiritualities' intrinsic connection to the environment and Earth can support an ecologically focused […]

Discussion | Hearing Nature’s Voice: Perspectives from Law, Ethics, Business and Science

James Chapel 90 Claremont Avenue, New York, New York, United States

How can the world transition from anthropocentrism to ecocentrism? Join us on Monday, September 18 at 6 p.m. for “Hearing Nature’s Voice,” a discussion of why humans must shift away from their extractive and destructive dispositions towards nature. Using modalities such as rights of nature, rights of future generations, earth ethics and nature-based governance, the […]

Online | An Urgent Call to Protect the Amazon: A Livestream Premiere Ahead of COP28

At the 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions (PoWR), The Interfaith Rainforest Initiative brought Indigenous leaders from the Amazon across the world to share an urgent plea to protect the Amazon Rainforest. This assembly featured keynotes from some of the most prominent Indigenous leaders of the Amazon sharing the urgent call to protect the forest […]

Brigid’s Day | Global Pause for Peace

Solas Bhride Centre for Spirituality and the Brigidine Sisters in Kildare, Ireland home to Brigid's perpetual flame, call people from around the world to join in a global Pause for Peace on St. Brigid’s Feast Day, Thursday, February 1, 2024. The Pause for Peace movement invites people for one minute of silence and reflection at […]

Book Launch | “Gu’ahia Taíno: We Speak Taíno”

Union Theological Seminary 3041 Broadway, New York, New York, United States

Join CEE as we celebrate the publication of “Gu'ahia Taíno: We Speak Taíno” by human rights advocate, consultant, cultural adviser, writer, and artist Roberto Múkaro Agueibaná Borrero. Compiled in collaboration with the United Confederation of Taíno People’s Taíno Language Committee, Borrero’s classical Taíno dictionary and grammar guide contributes to the important work of Indigenous language […]

Online | Rights of Nature – From Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism

In this webinar organized by Riverkeeper, CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore, a Riverkeeper board member, will be joined by Thomas Linzey of the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights and Riverkeeper Advisory Board Member Steven “Owl” Smith of the Ramapo Munsee Nation to discuss the movement for the “Rights of Nature.” This movement is focused […]

World Peace and Prayer Day

Established in 1996, World Peace and Prayer Day was initiated by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, a spiritual leader and keeper of the Sacred Pipe of the Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Sioux Nation. The gathering first brought together Indigenous Peoples of North and South America, but spread to the rest of the world. On June 21st—the summer solstice—everyone, regardless […]