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Join this 2nd interfaith-based consultation to address the climate emergency, confronting the impact of human activity on the planet with insight and hope. More than 45 global interfaith organizations gathered a year ago for our first interfaith-based consultation to address the climate emergency. In 2020, a coalition of planning partners is pleased to invite you […]

Please join President Serene Jones on Thursday, September 24th at noon for the next edition of our Knowledge & Nourishment webinar series. President Jones will be in conversation with The Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis to discuss the journey of the Poverty Initiative to the Kairos Center. Theoharis is an American theologian who is the co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call […]

Center for Earth Ethics Director, Karenna Gore will participate in the 2020 FAITH FOR NATURE: MULTI-FAITH ACTION Inspired to take collective action to protect our shared planet   Faith for Nature: Multi-Faith Action is a global event designed to lay the foundation for inter-faith collaboration for sustainable and regenerative development to achieve the SDGs. The concept […]

October 8, 2020: 9:00AM to 3:30PM Online - Zoom Register The climate crisis poses an existential threat to New York City, and indeed to our entire world. Global warming, sea-level rise, devastating storms, and the many other effects of carbon pollution are an imminent threat to public health, food and water security, and the sustainable […]

Feeling bruised, battered, or fatigued by this election season? Looking for a source of uplift down the home stretch to November 3rd?  Then, this webinar is for you. This will be a time to renew our energies and our focus as we approach an election day with so many profound implications for those who care […]

The year 2020 has brought sharp focus to our collective struggles: a global pandemic, environmental destruction, threats to democracy, reckonings with racial inequality. How is it possible to blossom, lotus-like, from the mud of suffering? The Dalai Lama offers us an incredible example of how to live with compassion, courage, and ethical conviction in the […]

You are invited to attend a special edition of the Knowledge & Nourishment webinar series with President Serene Jones on November 4, 11:00 am-11:50 am EST. This episode has been arranged to hold space for the community to process the election results, and to share directly from the administration where they see Union’s place in the world […]

The Center for Earth Ethics will participate in the Finance in Common Summit, November 11-12, 2020 hosted by the Paris Peace Forum.   Building Resilience for People and Planet   The Finance in Common Summit will stress the crucial role of Public Development Banks (PDBs) in reconciling short-term countercyclical responses with sustainable recovery measures that will […]

Union is pleased to announce the Inaugural James H. Cone Lecture. This annual lecture, in honor of Dr. Cone, the father of Black Liberation Theology, will continue forth his legacy of prophetic Black theological and religious thought that pricks the conscience of America. Join us online Wednesday, November 11 at 6:00 p.m. EST, as Dr. Anthony B. Pinn of […]

ZERO SUMMIT 2020, together with WELCOME TOMORROW 2020, promises content and solutions on how to invest in a transformative and global movement. Center for Earth Ethics Director, Karenna Gore will join a roster of speakers and panelists from business services, technology, agriculture and sustainability sectors to discuss how we can best move forward together towards […]

Saturday, November 14, 2020 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm RSVP Erin Brockovich (Superman's Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It) and 2020 MacArthur Fellow Catherine Coleman Flowers (Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret) illuminate—in a conversation about sustainability and environmental justice—the failures and dangers of […]

The need for action does not stop with Election Day. Whether our nation rises to the occasion in the face of the climate crisis and environmental injustice depends significantly on how much organized pressure is brought to bear on members of congress. In congressional districts across the country, faith-rooted advocates have enormous potential to be […]