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About this Event As we head into 2021, a new year filled with optimism, it is now time to refocus our energy on perhaps the greatest human challenge of all - the worsening climate crisis. In that calling, the Energy & Environmental Justice Ministry of the Congregational Church of San Mateo (CCSM) has organized a […]

Acclaimed environmental activist, MacArthur “genius” grant recipient, and author Catherine Coleman Flowers, founding director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, will headline the virtual 2021 Stone Social Impact Forum. Catherine Coleman Flowers will share her journey in environmental activism and how she broadens the scope of environmental justice to include issues specific to […]

Sponsored by the Center for Earth Ethics, Union Theological Seminary (NYC) students, coordinated with volunteers in Baltimore and Philadelphia, are pleased to host an Enbridge Line 3 pipeline resistance documentary. When: Thursday, February 25, 2021. Post-screening, viewers are welcome to stay for a follow-up discussion on the resistance and getting involved. Please pre-register for this […]

The Center for Earth Ethics is proud to be a co-sponsor of Black Women, Green Future hosted by New Voices for Reproductive Justice and their Environmental Justice Project on Thursday, February 25, 7-9 PM ET in partnership with WURD Radio, Philadelphia during Women of Color HERStory Month 2021. The Keynote Speaker is Jacqui Patterson, Director of the NAACP […]

"The impacts of climate change are already here. It is an economical issue. It is a national security issue. It is also a moral issue. It requires deep consideration of our moral obligations to one another across time and space. The causes are also present among us and if we can see them quite clearly, […]

Virginia Humanities: ADD TO CALENDAR Nonfiction writers Kerri Arsenault (Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains), Anna Clark (The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy), and Catherine Coleman Flowers (Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret) discuss their investigations into American environmental injustices, from sewage and sanitation management systems that reinforce systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudices, to […]

The Center for Earth Ethics is hosting a livestream conversation this Friday as we gear up for the Faith + Food Coalition Dialogue Series! Join CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore, Sustainability and Global Affairs Program Director Andrew Schwartz, Original Caretakers Program Senior Fellow Mona Polacca and Director of Bhumi Global Gopal Patel at 9 am PDT / 12 Noon EDT streaming […]

Each semester, Episcopal Divinity School at Union selects a theme and book to guide a semester-long discussion on justice issues critical for faith communities to address. This spring 2021, EDS at Union is joining with the Center for Earth Ethics and the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice to focus on the structural challenges facing communities living […]

Faith and Frontline Call to Action: Good Trouble for Justice A Consultation: How To Address The Climate Emergency April 19th  12 Noon - 1 pm EST Register This U.S. Climate Action Week, a coalition of planning partners is pleased to host you for a global interfaith consultation highlighting the need for frontline and faith communities […]

Center for Earth Ethics is pleased to invite you to On Caring for Our Common Home: Climate Change & the Moral Imperative Tuesday, April 20th @ 7 pm Featuring: Michael B. Gerrard, the Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Law School and Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School Register Now

Center for Earth Ethics' Senior Fellow for Original Caretakers, Mona Polacca and CEE Executive Director, Karenna Gore will be sharing their voices as part of this Earth Day event. Tune in at 12:30 pm Mountain Time / 2:30 pm Eastern Time on April 22nd for Mona and Karenna's contribution. Her Many Voices is honoring Earth […]

Earth Week: April 22nd and 23rd, 2021 / 2:00-4:30 pm Union Theological Seminary has recently declared a climate emergency, being the first seminary in the world to do so. The declaration commits Union to adopting a climate mobilization plan with the goal of eliminating our school’s carbon emissions in the next ten years. The plan […]