BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Center for Earth Ethics - ECPv6.17.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Center for Earth Ethics X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://centerforearthethics.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Center for Earth Ethics REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260728T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260728T143000 DTSTAMP:20260721T170045Z CREATED:20260625T153845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260721T170045Z UID:10000637-1785243600-1785249000@centerforearthethics.org SUMMARY:Turning Tides: Policy\, Ethics\, and the Promise of Clean Water DESCRIPTION:More than fifty years after the Clean Water Act established the national goal of making all waters fishable and swimmable\, recent legal decisions and rulemaking have dramatically weakened the Act by narrowing the definition of “Waters of the United States.” This redefinition threatens to remove federal safeguards from more than 80 percent of the nation’s wetlands and millions of miles of creeks and streams. This rollback comes amid persistent water pollution\, escalating climate-driven risks\, and ongoing environmental injustice\, raising the urgent question: Can we afford to weaken the legal protections that sustain life itself?  \n\n\n\nJoin the Center for Earth Ethics on Tuesday\, July 28 for an online forum on the legal\, ethical\, cultural and spiritual dimensions of clean water protection in the United States. Drawing on a new policy note authored by Maggie Greenfield\, with Karenna Gore and Paul Gallay\, the webinar will bring together legal\, policy\, Indigenous and global leaders to explore how communities and watershed advocates are responding to this pivotal moment in the history of clean water protection. \n\n\n\nFeatured speakers: \n\n\n\n\nBette Billiot: Co-founder\, Louisiana Liberation and Sovereignty Collective; United Houma Nation Tribe of Louisiana\n\n\n\nYenny Vega Cárdenas: President\, International Observatory on the Rights of Nature\n\n\n\nPaul Gallay: Strategic Advisor\, Center for Earth Ethics; Director\, Resilient Coastal Communities Project (Columbia Climate School)\n\n\n\nKarenna Gore: Executive Director\, Center for Earth Ethics\n\n\n\nMaggie Greenfield: Consultant\, Center for Earth Ethics\n\n\n\nSamira Siddique: Director of Strategic Initiatives\, Center for Earth Ethics URL:https://centerforearthethics.org/event/turning-tides-policy-ethics-and-the-promise-of-clean-water/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://centerforearthethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/03_WOTUS.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260918T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260918T180000 DTSTAMP:20260916T210536Z CREATED:20260730T201810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T210536Z UID:10000638-1789743600-1789754400@centerforearthethics.org SUMMARY:The Immorality of Inaction: Voicing Truth on Climate DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, September 18\, at the historic Riverside Church in New York City for “The Immorality of Inaction: Voicing Truth on Climate.” This gathering will bring people together to give voice to what we know to be true about the catastrophic consequences of allowing the pillage and pollution of the Earth—and what we are called to do about it.  \n \nWe have the scientific knowledge\, technology and financial resources to decrease fossil fuel emissions\, restore integrity\, protect communities and prevent ecosystem collapse. Yet we don’t. In the face of shifting political winds and corporate profit-seeking\, our systems have us ever more locked into a trajectory of self-destruction. The ones that suffer first and worst are the most vulnerable among us. We cannot be silent. Through speech\, story and song\, we will invigorate and empower a unified moral community voice. Let’s build the public pressure needed to move from a culture of denial and delay to one of decisive action.  \n \nSpeakers include: \n\nAlexis Abramson\, Dean of the Columbia University Climate School\nBishop William Barber II\, Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival\nRoberto Múkaro Borrero\, Board President\, United Confederation of Taíno People\nSwami Dayananda\, Director\, LOTUS (Light Of Truth Universal Shrine) Center for All Faiths\nPaul Gallay\, Director\, Resilient Coastal Communities Project\, Center for Sustainable Urban Development\, Columbia Climate School\nAl Gore\, Founder and Chairman\, The Climate Reality Project\nKarenna Gore\, Founder and Executive Director\, Center for Earth Ethics\nOren Lyons\, Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation\nSophia Powless\, Indigenous educator\, member of the Wolf Clan of the Onondaga Nation\nGegye Yongyal Tulku Rinpoche\, Ordained Buddhist teacher\, leader in the Kagyu Nyigma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism\nCharitie Ropati\, Youth Climate Advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations\nRabbi Jennie Rosenn\, Founder and CEO\, Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action\nSamira Siddique\, Director of Strategic Initiatives\, Center for Earth Ethics\nReverend Adriene Thorne\, senior minister of the historic Riverside Church in the City of New York\nElizabeth Yeampierre\, Executive Director\, UPROSE…and more to be announced\n\n\n \n \n \n REGISTER NOW URL:https://centerforearthethics.org/event/immorality-of-inaction/ LOCATION:Riverside Church\, 490 Riverside Drive\, New York\, New York\, 10027 CATEGORIES:Climate & Health,Ecology, Spirituality & Faith​,Environmental Justice & Civic Engagement,Grassroots Dialogues,Rights of Nature & Ecocentric Law,Sustainability & Global Affairs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://centerforearthethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IOI_Banner-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260919T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261004T170000 DTSTAMP:20260910T181533Z CREATED:20260522T142101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T181533Z UID:10000634-1789804800-1791133200@centerforearthethics.org SUMMARY:Women's Water Walk DESCRIPTION:CEE is excited to co-sponsor the Women’s Water Walk\, a 108 mile women-led prayer walk to stop the proposed Constitution Pipeline. The walk\, which men are also encouraged to join and support\, begins September 19 near Damascus\, N.Y.\, and will continue for two weeks\, until October 4\, through towns along the proposed pipeline route. We will sing together as we walk and make prayers at the many rivers\, lakes and waterways that cross our path.  At the end of each day there will be a community gathering to discuss and develop a list of solutions\, actions and legislative agendas—focusing not only on what we seek to stop\, but also on what we are trying to build. URL:https://centerforearthethics.org/event/womens-water-walk/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://centerforearthethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-06-30-at-4.51.43-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260919T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260919T120000 DTSTAMP:20260910T181447Z CREATED:20260910T181444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T181447Z UID:10000641-1789819200-1789819200@centerforearthethics.org SUMMARY:A Water Ceremony in Solidarity with the Women's Water Walk DESCRIPTION:Join us for a ceremonial gathering and walk to the river in honor of water and in solidarity with water protectors. We will begin in the Union courtyard\, sharing words\, songs\, and water\, which we will pour into a shared vessel. Then we will walk a path on the edge of Riverside Park\, to the pier at West 125th Street and offer the water to the river. This is in solidarity with the Women’s Water Walk\, a 108-mile prayer walk that begins at the at same time near Damascus\, New York\, and is an act of love for the natural waterways and resistance to the proposed Constitution fracked-gas pipeline. URL:https://centerforearthethics.org/event/a-water-ceremony-in-solidarity-with-the-womens-water-walk/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://centerforearthethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/WWW-Flyer-Updated-Final-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260920T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260920T173000 DTSTAMP:20260819T155018Z CREATED:20260819T154913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260819T155018Z UID:10000639-1789893000-1789925400@centerforearthethics.org SUMMARY:Reawakening Humanity's Sacred Connection with Earth DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, September 20\, CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore will participate in a gathering hosted by The Fetzer Institute Environment Collaborative at Columbia University’s Lee Bollinger Forum. This free event will feature ceremony\, dialogue and reflection to celebrate and explore the sacred spirit that connects us to each other\, all living beings\, and our Earth while honoring the grief and joy\, struggle and courage that accompany environmental work. URL:https://centerforearthethics.org/event/reawakening-humanitys-sacred-connection-with-earth/ LOCATION:Lee Bollinger Forum\, 601 West 125th Street\, New York\, New York\, 10027\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://centerforearthethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260923T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260923T200000 DTSTAMP:20260902T140917Z CREATED:20260831T023910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260902T140917Z UID:10000640-1790154000-1790193600@centerforearthethics.org SUMMARY:Arctic Voices: From Alaska and the Circumpolar Arctic DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, September 23\,Inuit Nunaat Fund will host a day of panel discussions curated by Arctic Indigenous Peoples at Union Theological Seminary. The gathering will convene Indigenous Peoples from across the circumpolar Arctic to speak on cultural wellbeing and interconnection—and the impacts of climate change and extraction. URL:https://centerforearthethics.org/event/arctic-indigenous-nycw-salmon-to-reindeer-tundra-to-sea/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://centerforearthethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/SaveClip.App_790993274_18334983967287503_8059552557417698324_n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260925T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260925T150000 DTSTAMP:20260911T140407Z CREATED:20260911T140403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T140407Z UID:10000643-1790326800-1790348400@centerforearthethics.org SUMMARY:11th Annual Global South Summit DESCRIPTION:The Global South Summit convenes leaders\, organizers\, scholars and community advocates committed to building a just and sustainable future. This year’s theme centers on the powerful intersections of faith\, environmental justice\, nature-based solutions and Indigenous knowledge—lifting up wisdom traditions and frontline experiences that guide global transformation. URL:https://centerforearthethics.org/event/11th-annual-global-south-summit/ LOCATION:Union Theological Seminary\, 3041 Broadway\, New York\, New York\, 10027\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://centerforearthethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Concept-Notes-Climate-Week-Polished-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261001T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261001T183000 DTSTAMP:20260922T190622Z CREATED:20260430T195843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T190622Z UID:10000633-1790874000-1790879400@centerforearthethics.org SUMMARY:"The Problem With Plastic": A Book Talk with Judith Enck and Karenna Gore DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for Earth Ethics and Beyond Plastics for a book talk exploring “The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late.” CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore will be in conversation with Judith Enck\, president of Beyond Plastics and the book’s co-author. Together\, they will explore the massive\, systemic and urgent issues posed by the plastics pollution crisis—and what we can do to address it. By equipping people with knowledge\, hope and an arsenal of solutions\, we can put people and the planet before plastic\, and save ourselves while there’s still time. URL:https://centerforearthethics.org/event/the-problem-with-plastics-a-book-talk-with-judith-enck-and-karenna-gore/ LOCATION:The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary\, 3041 Broadway ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://centerforearthethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Screenshot-2026-04-30-at-3.48.04-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261016T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261016T210000 DTSTAMP:20260922T140257Z CREATED:20260910T181833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T140257Z UID:10000642-1792141200-1792184400@centerforearthethics.org SUMMARY:Celebrating 30 Years of Religion and Ecology DESCRIPTION:This conference will celebrate 30 years of Religion and Ecology as a growing academic field and moral force in society. The academic field arose from 10 conferences on Religion and Ecology\, organized by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim from 1996-1999 at Harvard’s Center for the Study of World Religions\, resulting in 10 volumes on the ecological dimensions of the world’s religions. The work of hundreds of engaged religion scholars and theologians has now spawned 30 graduate programs in North America. In addition\, thousands of grassroots religious environmental programs have emerged to inspire transformative action for the well being of our common home. This conference will bring together a community of scholars\, students\, and practitioners to reflect on the growth of the field and how ecotheology\, environmental ethics\, and environmental justice are shaping its future directions.See the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology for further background on this field. \n\n\n\nThe conference is free and open to all\, but pre-registration is required. \n\n\n\nThe afternoon panels and presentations will be livestreamed. No registration is necessary to watch remotely. Just tune in here on October 16 from 12:45pm-5:30pm. \n\n\n\nOverflow Space: The main conference space is now sold out. But we have added on an overflow space in Niebuhr Hall at Yale Divinity School\, where the afternoon portions of the program can be viewed on a large screen from 12:45pm-5:30pm. Please note that registration for the overflow space is a separate registration list from the main event and does not include any meals. If you register for the overflow\, you will be ushered directly to Niebuhr Hall.  \n\n\n\nFor more information\, to see the full lineup of speakers\, and to register\, go to Eventbrite. \n\n\n\nAgenda (subject to change)Area Information for Attendees URL:https://centerforearthethics.org/event/celebrating-30-years-of-religion-and-ecology/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://centerforearthethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/YDS-Conference-Program-wlinks-v6-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR