Center for Earth Ethics

Faith & Climate Summit #2
2021-12-08 09:00 - 12:00 UTC
On Wednesday, December 8th join the Parliament of the World’s Religions for the Faith & Climate Summit #2.
With the close of COP26 the Parliament in partnership with Bhumi Global, the Center for Earth Ethics, Dayenu, EcoSikh, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light, the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation, UK COP26 Presidency, UN Environment Programme Faith for Earth, and World Resources Institute invites you to join us for a debrief and robust discussion about the faith community’s continued engagement with UNFCCC and climate action more broadly.
Learn more at https://parliamentofreligions.org/blog/interfaith-partners-gather-faith-climate-summit-2

Clinical Climate Change Conference: Mental Health and Well-being for Patients and Clinicians
2022-01-07 09:30 - 15:30 UTC
The Center for Earth Ethics is honored to be a sponsor for the fourth annual Clinical Climate Conference organized by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai on Friday, January 7, 2022. This year’s conference, which runs from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern Time, will be held virtually and will address the theme of Mental Health and Well-being for Patients and Clinicians. CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore will address a workshop on “Taking Action as an Antidote to Anxiety.”

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Worldwide Climate and Justice Teach-In Information Session
2022-01-13 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York), 2022-01-13 15:00 - 16:00 UTC
As the Worldwide Teach-in on Climate and Justice continues to mobilize half a million educators, students and community members to participate in its historic global event on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, faith communities have a vital role to play in addressing climate change and creating just climate solutions.

To help describe the roles that faith communities and people of faith can take in the Worldwide Teach-In, Bard and CEE are holding information sessions on Thursday, January 13, 2020, at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. (New York time). Interested individuals can register here to learn ways to engage people from their faith community in serious dialogue about climate solutions and justice in the transition.

CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore will be a guest speaker at these sessions.

Ecocide: A Discussion of Law and Ethics
2022-01-20 12:00 - 13:30 UTC
Ecocide: A Discussion of Law and Ethics
Thursday, January 20, 2022
VIRTUAL EVENT
9 a.m. Los Angeles | 12 p.m. New York & Quito | 6 p.m. The Hague
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Mass environmental devastation affects us all, even if the damage is inflicted within national borders. Yet as it stands today international law is inadequate to address extreme, willful damage to the environment.
Now, a global effort is underway to make international law a more powerful mechanism to protect our planet. In June 2021, the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide defined ecocide as the “unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts.”
This definition is an initial step to making ecocide an international crime. At present, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court lists four international crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression. Recognizing ecocide as the fifth would create, in the Panel’s words, “a new and practical legal tool” to preserve and protect the Earth, our common home.

Left to right: Hugo Echeverria, Kate Mackintosh, Olivia Swaak-Goldman, Karenna Gore
On Thursday, January 20, 2022, at noon (New York time), “Ecocide: A Discussion of Law and Ethics” will assemble international lawyers and scholars to discuss the Panel’s efforts to define ecocide as well as to examine the significance of shifting to an eco-centric framework.
Scheduled speakers include attorney and consultant Hugo Echeverria, an expert in the environmental rule of law, wildlife crime, and the rights of Nature; Kate Mackintosh, inaugural executive director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law and a deputy chair of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide; and Olivia Swaak-Goldman, executive director of the Wildlife Justice Commission, who has published extensively on international criminal law and humanitarian law. Karenna Gore, CEE’s founder and executive director, organized the session and will serve as moderator.
This event is sponsored by the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law, and the Wildlife Justice Commission.
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Climate Revival: Launch a Year of Resilient Creation & Restored Communities
2022-01-20 19:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
We need a climate revival!
After another year of record-breaking climate disasters, environmental injustices are degrading our communities, God’s Creation, and democracy. This year, we’re changing the script. Let’s move from degradation to resilience, from brokenness to restoration, from death to revival!
Join us virtually on January 20, 2022 to launch a year of “Resilient Creation & Restored Communities: Voting for Climate Justice in 2022”!
Featured Speakers, along with many other faith leaders:

Karenna Gore – Founder & Executive Director of the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary
Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley – Professor & author of Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision
Rev. Lennox Yearwood – President & CEO of Hip Hop Caucus

At this event, we will LEARN what’s at stake for our communities and climate in 2022, COMMIT to a year of engagement for resilience and restoration, and PRAY for a revival of climate justice.
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Event hosted by the Southeast Faith Leaders Network (SFLN) with the support of the U.S. Climate Action Network.

Keeping Faith in Science?
2022-02-17 14:30 - 16:00 UTC
CEE Executive Director Karenna Gorewill take part in the Keeping Faith in Science?, a series of webinars in February sponsored by the London-based United Society Partners in the Gospel. She will speak about faith and the climate crisis at 2:30 p.m. EST (7.30 p.m. U.K. time) on February 17 alongside Dr. George Zachariah from Trinity Methodist Theological College, New Zealand.
“We are privileged to be joined by Karenna Gore, an expert in the relationship between faith and climate activism, alongside many other experts in their respective fields across the world church,” said Revd Canon Richard Bartlett, USPG’s director of mission engagement. “It is going to be a thought-provoking and very topical series of webinars.”
Other speakers in the four-part series, which will be running at 7.30 p.m. every Thursday in February, include Professor Jolyon Mitchell, director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues at the University of Edinburgh, and Dr. Mwai Makoka, programme executive at the World Council of Churches.
Founded in 1701, USPG is the Anglican mission agency that partners churches and communities worldwide in God’s mission to enliven faith, strengthen relationships, unlock potential and champion justice.
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Faith for Earth Dialogue, Feb 21 - Mar 4
2022-02-21 - 2022-03-04
The resumed fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly will take place online and in Nairobi from February 28 to March 2, 2022. UNEA-5 brings together representatives of the 193 UN Member States, businesses, civil society and other stakeholders to agree on policies to address the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.
To amplify the voices of faith-based organizations at UNEA-5, UNEP’s Faith for Earth Initiative has organized the Faith for Earth Dialogue, a set of more than 25 online panels and conversations from February 21 to March 4.
CEE Participation at the Faith for Earth Dialogue (all times New York)

Faith for Earth: A Call for Action. Monday, February 21, 9:30 a.m. CEE Advisory Board member Kusumita Pedersen is a panelist.
Working Group on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration. Wednesday, February 23, 8 a.m. Andrew Schwartz, director of sustainability and global affairs, and Gopal Patel, a senior advisor, are panelists.
Faith, Values & Ethics in Environmental Governance. Friday, February 25, 9:30 a.m. Kusumita Pedersen and Mona Polacca, a senior fellow, are panelists.
Faith and Food: Nature Positive Solutions for a Flourishing World. Wednesday, March 2, 8 a.m. Andrew Schwartz organized and will lead the session. (SPECIAL REGISTRATION LINK for this session only.)
Faiths Respond to Stockholm+50 & UNEP@50. Friday, March 4, 8 a.m. Gopal Patel is a panelist. Karenna Gore, CEE’s founder and executive director, will moderate the session.

Register today at Faith for Earth Dialogue.
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Karenna Gore: "Widening the Circle"
2022-02-23 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
“Widening the Circle”
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
12 p.m. New Haven & New York
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On Wednesday, February 23, 2022, at noon Eastern Time, Executive Director Karenna Gore will address Yale students and guests as a session in the School of the Environment BIOMES speaker series. The title of Ms. Gore’s address, “Widening the Circle,” will examine the root causes of today’s compound ecological crisis.
Mary Evelyn Tucker, co-founder and co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale, will introduce Ms. Gore. The talk will be broadcast live to members of the Yale community in Burke Auditorium and online to guests.

UN Commission on the Status of Women: The Climate Crisis as a Catalyst for a Culture of Equality
2022-03-16 12:00 - 14:00 UTC
Statement Roundtable: “The Heart of Resilience: The Climate Crisis as a Catalyst for a Culture of Equality”

An online dialogue for the 66th session of the Commission on the Status of Women
Hosted by the Baha’i International Community United Nations Office
Wednesday 16 March 2022

“In a world where the impending risks of climate change press daily, a twofold reality presents itself—while women are disproportionately affected by climate change,
they are uniquely situated to lead efforts in response.”

Background
The priority theme for this year’s CSW is “Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes”. The Baha’i International Community (BIC) has submitted a formal written statement to the CSW on this theme, titled “The Heart of Resilience: The Climate Crisis as a Catalyst for a Culture of Equality”. This event aims to engage participants in conversation and facilitate their reactions to the themes of the statement, particularly around how much humanity benefits when women’s leadership is promoted at every level of society, and how the challenges posed by climate change should serve as catalysts to embrace new approaches to inclusive forms of governance as well as just patterns of community life capable of unlocking the whole range of human experience.

Format
The dialogue will be held during the UN Commission on the Status of Women
Wednesday 16 March 2021
12.00pm to 2.00pm EDT
Link to the event on the NGO CSW Virtual Platform
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We Believe We Will Win: A Rally to Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline
2022-04-07 19:00 - 20:00 UTC
An expansive movement of landowners, Indigenous water protectors, Black leaders, and climate activists are mobilizing to ensure the Mountain Valley Pipeline is stopped. In the past few months, the pipeline has suffered some severe blows. In November, Indigenous and Black leaders ensured the Lambert Compressor Station was stopped, signaling a huge environmental justice victory. In January, the US Court of Appeals stopped MVP from further destroying Jefferson National Forest. In February, the Court stopped MVP from threatened endangered species.
On Thursday, April 7 (7-8 pm ET) hundreds will gather on Zoom for ‘We Believe We Will Win: A Rally to Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline,’ bringing together community leaders in Virginia and West Virginia to share how they achieved these wins, what it will take to stop this disastrous pipeline, and how you can help.
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Speakers include:
– Karenna Gore, Executive Director, Center for Earth Ethics
– Anita Royston, President, Pittsylvania County NAACP
– Crystal Cavalier-Keck, Co-founder, Seven Directions of Service
– Desiree Shelley Flores, Climate Justice Organizer, Mothers Out Front
– Autumn Leah Crowe, Program Director, West Virginia Rivers
– Russell Chisholm, Co-Chair, Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights Coalition (POWHR)
– MC: Joshua Vana, Director, ARTivism Virginia
We believe we will stop this disastrous pipeline. Building on the recent wins, community leaders will share how they achieved these wins, what it will take to stop this disastrous pipeline, and how folks can help.
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Fireside Chat: Values, Culture and Spirituality in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
2022-04-11 11:00 - 12:00 UTC
Fireside Chat: Values, Culture and Spirituality in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
Virtual Event
8 a.m. Los Angeles | 11 a.m. New York | 5 p.m. Paris | 6 p.m. Nairobi
Join Lucy Mulenkei, executive director of the Indigenous Information Network, Tim Christophersen, head of the Nature for Climate Branch Ecosystems Division at UNEP, and Andrew Schwartz, director of Sustainability and Global Affairs at the Center for Earth Ethics for a conversation about the role of faith communities in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
This chat will kick off a series of consultations with faith-based and other spiritual groups during 2022 about the UN Decade.
Find out more here and join live on Zoom.

Virtual Event | Cathonomics: Book Launch and Conversation
2022-04-13 17:00 - 18:00 UTC
On April 13 at 5 p.m. (New York time), the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University’s Earth Institute and the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary will host a virtual conversation between Dr. Anthony Annett and CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore on the topics presented in Annett’s new book, “Cathonomics: How Catholic Tradition Can Create a More Just Economy.”
The webinar/book launch will include a moderated conversation, audience Q&A, and introductory remarks by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, who contributed the forward to the book.
The event is free, but registration is required.

Earth Day 2022: Life Force
2022-04-22 16:00 - 19:00 UTC | Screenshot 2019-02-18 at 1.48.32 PM – Edited
Earth Day 2022: Life Force
Live-streamed from James Chapel, Union Theological Seminary
Friday | 2.22.22 | 4 – 7 p.m.
Let’s spend an afternoon tending to the best of the human spirit, which is inseparable from the life force that animates our planet.
Earth Day 2022 is an opportunity for tapping into the life force that flows through each of us. a counterpoint to the overload of information and analysis that can leave us depleted and exhausted—and a boost to get us to the other side. Join us as we gather with artists, poets, thought leaders and climate scientists who are reimagining and recasting how we experience this time.
Scheduled participants at Earth Day 2022, which will be livestreamed from James Chapel at Union Theological Seminary in New York, include the following:
Bill McKibben | Gavin Schmidt | Jacqui Patterson | Jody Sperling | Karenna Gore | Kate Marvel | Rev. Lenox Yearwood | Lyla June | Mike Massimino | Miranda Massie | Mitchell Joachim | Pádraig Ó Tuama | Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky | Rev. Dr. Serene Jones | The New York City Labor Chorus
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Values, Culture and Spirituality: A Consultation on Air
2022-04-26 11:00 - 12:00 UTC
A Consultation on Air: St. James Parish
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
8 a.m. San Francisco | 11 a.m. New York | 5 p.m. Paris
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On Tuesday, April 26, 2022, at 11 a.m. Eastern Time, the Center for Earth Ethics for “A Consultation on Air: St James Parrish.” You’ll hear from four incredible women working in and around St. James Parish who utilize their traditions, culture and values to stop plastic pollution at its source, push restoration work, and create legal frameworks to deal with plastic pollution through its entire lifecycle.

“Vive Alameda”: culture and heritage-related provisions of the New Urban Agenda
2022-04-27 10:00 - 12:30 UTC
Vive Alameda Habitat 3 Urban Village Project Six Years Later:
From a Quito Neighborhood to the World, A look at Advances in the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda Through Culture and Heritage
In the framework of the High-Level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on the progress in the implementation of the New Urban Agenda

Date and Time: Wednesday, 27 April 2022, 10:00 to 12:30pm
Modality: Hybrid (Online and In-Person). In person location: Van Alen Institute, located at 303 Bond Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. https://www.vanalen.org/about/.
Registration:

In-person: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/implementing-the-new-urban-agenda-thru-culture-and-heritage-in-person-tickets-316991910337
Online: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/implementing-the-new-urban-agenda-thru-culture-and-heritage-online-only-tickets-313853944597

Organizer: Instituto Metropolitano de Patrimonio de Quito (IMP)
Partners: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador; Climate Heritage Network; International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS); Municipality of Quito (additional partners forthcoming)
Short Concept Note:
This event will examine the state of progress towards implementation of the culture and heritage-related provisions of the New Urban Agenda. The event comes on the eve of 6th anniversary of the NUA’s adoption at the landmark Habitat III Conference held in Quito, Ecuador in September 2016. The Habitat 3 conference was instrumental in advancing the global understanding of the role of culture and heritage for sustainable and resilient cities and human settlements. It occurred only a few months after the UN General Assembly had taken the innovative decision to expressly include natural and cultural heritage in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, through SDG 11.4. The amplification of SDG11.4 in the urban context can particularly be seen in sections 14c, 38, 45, 52, 60, 69, 97, 124 and 125 of the New Urban Agenda.
The April 2022 event will use as a point of departure the Habitat III Urban Village Project “La Alameda Historic District of Quito: Forging Heritage Tools for Urban Sustainability (Art and Citizen Participation).” The project is known informally as “Vive Alameda” after the Quito neighbourhood that was home to Habitat 3 and which is also part of the “buffer zone” of the Historic Center of Quito, the first city inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
This project was a collaboration between different community actors and various local, national and international cultural heritage experts. They came together to explore, experiment and examine the historical layers of fabric, values, cultures, traditions and experiences of the historic La Alameda neighborhood to test the cultural concepts proposed for inclusion in the NUA and to develop and showcase tools to implement them. The Project aimed to benefit the neighborhood through the creation of concrete cultural heritage-based sustainable development tools and also to point the way towards viable strategies, replicable around the world, to realize the potential of culture to drive sustainable urbanization, as expressed in the NUA.
Six years later, participants in the Vive Alameda project as well as partner and colleagues will assemble to consider the potential for culture and heritage in sustainable urbanism documented in Alameda and reflected in the New Urban Agenda – and the ongoing efforts to realise that potential.
Focal point: Arq Angelica Arias, Executive Director, Instituto Metropolitano de Patrimonio de Quito. anearias@hotmail.com
Select one or several themes the side-event contributes to (fighting inequalities, sustainable urban economic development, climate action, peace and security, localizing global agendas)
The event will focus on the treatment of culture and heritage in the New Urban Agenda, including the following:

Promoting the ecological and social function of land, fostering ecosystem-based solutions to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns (NUA Sections 14c, 45, 69)
Quality, decent and productive jobs, including through the promotion of cultural and creative industries, sustainable tourism, performing arts and heritage conservation activities (NUA 60)
Leveraging of cultural heritage for sustainable urban development, rehabilitating and revitalizing urban areas (NUA Section 38, 125)
Strengthening social participation and the exercise of citizenship, stimulating participation and responsibility (NUA Section 38, 125)

Sustainable, dense, low-carbon, inclusive land use and territorial planning, including the upgrading of slums and informal, while preserving cultural heritage (52, 69, 97, 124)

Karenna Gore: Creation Care | Sunday, May 8
2022-05-08 11:15 - 12:30 UTC
Karenna Gore on Creation Care
Christ Church Greenwich — 2022 Sunday Forum Series
Sunday, May 8, 2022 | 11:15 a.m.
254 East Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, Conn.
CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore, author of “Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America,” will speak on Sunday, May 8, at 11:15 a.m. in the Parish Hall at Christ Church Greenwich. Her speech is part of a six-week focus on Creation Care in the church’s 2022 Sunday Forum Series.
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Black Interfaith in the Time of Climate Crisis - Tue, May 17
2022-05-17 17:00 - 19:00 UTC
Black Interfaith in the Time of Climate Crisis
Tuesday, May 17 | 5 p.m.
Oprah Winfrey Theater, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C., & Online
Interfaith America’s Black Interfaith Project is proud to partner with the Center for Earth Ethics for Black Interfaith in the Time of Climate Crisis. Former Vice President Al Gore and Black Interfaith Fellow Ibrahim Abdul-Matin will keynote this special event that will feature a diverse group of speakers.
Join us in Washington, D.C., as we explore the unique challenges climate change poses to Black communities. The panel discussion will illustrate ways in which Black communities of faith have come together to address these challenges and build a more sustainable future.
Panelists for the event include:

Pamela Ayo Yetunde, Professor, Chaplain, Pastoral Counselor, and Co-Editor of “Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Race, Resilience, Transformation and Freedom”
William Barber III, Director, Climate and Environmental Justice, The Climate Reality Project; Fellow, Center for Earth Ethics
Crystal Cavalier, Co-Founder, Seven Directions of Service
Karenna Gore, Founder and Executive Director, Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary

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Questions? Please contact Orly Zinkow at orly@ifyc.org.

A Moral Call for Peace and Climate Justice - Sun, May 22
2022-05-22 17:00 - 18:30 UTC
In this moment of converging crises – climate disasters unfolding across the world, and threats to peace and security in Ukraine – we are joining together across faith traditions urge our leaders to pursue peace, good jobs, justice, and a rapid transition to clean energy for all.

Join us for an interfaith event on May 22 at 5pm at Marble Collegiate Church and livestreamed online as we rise up with one voice to urge our leaders to have the courage to meet this moment with the bold actions that science and justice demand.
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PARTNERS

Auburn Seminary

Bronx Jews for Climate Action

Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action

Dayenu in the Heights

Center for Earth Ethics

Congregation Beth Elohim

Congregation B’nai Jeshurun

Fort Tryon Jewish Center

Interfaith Center of New York

Interfaith Power and Light

Jewish Climate Action Network-NYC

Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

Marble Collegiate Church

Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns

NY Jewish Clergy Students for Climate Action

New York Interfaith Power and Light

New York Jewish Agenda

New York Renews

Park Slope Jewish Center

Presbyterian Church USA

Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism – New York

Shomrei Ha’Adamah Dayenu Circle

The Point CDC

WeACT for Environmental Justice

Is your congregation or faith organization interested in partnering on this event? Drop us a line at info@dayenu.org.

Earth Equity and Design for Freedom - Thur, May 26
2022-05-26 10:00 - 16:00 UTC
Join Grace Farms for a full-day event featuring panels, tours, guided walks, lunch and breakout discussions with tools to create biodiversity positive, nature-based solutions in our landscapes, installed with sustainable materials free of forced labor.
Hosted at Grace Farms, in partnership with Edwina von Gal, founder of the Perfect Earth Project, and Louis Fusco, PLA, Principal, with the Connecticut ASLA.
Highlights include:

Keynote with Karenna Gore, founder and executive director of the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York.
Joy Harjo, 23rd United States Poet Laureate and first Native person to hold that position, will open the Landscapes Forum at Grace Farms with a recorded poem and reflection.
Engage in a panel about the ethical role of landscape architecture and landscape design with Jennifer Reut of Landscape Architecture Magazine, Sierra Bainbridge of MASS Design Group, 2022 AIA Architecture Firm of the Year, Tamar Warburg of Sasaki, Richard Roark of OLIN, and more.

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A Consultation on Water: River Yamuna - Mon, May 30
2022-05-30 08:00 - 09:30 UTC
A Consultation on Water: River Yamuna
Monday, May 30, 2022
5 a.m. San Francisco | 8 a.m. New York | 2 p.m. Paris | 5:30 p.m. New Delhi

The river Yamuna is one of India’s most sacred rivers. Closely connected to the stories of the Hindu deity Krishna, the Yamuna is venerated and worshiped by Hindus worldwide. Despite this, the river is considered to be “dead”, so heavily polluted that no life can exist within it. After leaving the Himalayas it reaches Delhi, where the water is diverted and replaced with untreated sewage water. It is this water, which contains dangerously high levels of toxic chemicals that Hindu devotees use for worship and rituals. Despite several high profile campaigns over recent years, the plight of the Yamuna is no closer to being resolved.

On Monday, May 30, 2022, at 8 a.m. Eastern Time, the Center for Earth Ethics will host “A Consultation on Water: River Yamuna.” This exploration of climate and pollution issues around one of India’s greatest rivers will be moderated by Gopal Patel, senior advisor at the Center for Earth Ethics.

This is the second consultation in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration series, Values, Culture and Spirituality. #GenerationRestoration

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Faith in Earth - Thursday, June 2
2022-06-02 11:45 - 13:00 UTC
Faith communities have a rich tradition of applying a holistic world view on human life and creation. They acknowledge the cry of the earth with the cry of the most vulnerable in our societies. On Thursday, June 2, Executive Director Karenna Gore will speak at “Faith in Earth,” a seminar that will create room for deep listening where religious perspectives are discussed in the context of the Stockholm +50 conference.

An official side event to Stockholm +50, this seminar will highlight the role of religious actors in shaping a new values-based and sustainable development paradigm. The seminar builds on the rich and important UNEP’s Faith for Earth conversation and the outcome of its 25 sessions during UNEA 5. It will include both faith narratives and voices from the most vulnerable in our societies.
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Fire Drill Fridays with Jane Fonda - Friday June 3
2022-06-03 14:00 - 15:30 UTC
On Friday, June 3, at 2 p.m. (New York Time), CEE Fellow William J. Barber III, director of Environmental and Climate Justice at the Climate Reality Project, will join Ebony Twilley-Martin, co-executive director of Greenpeace USA, and special guest host, Nalleli Cobo, on Fire Drill Fridays with Jane Fonda for a conversation about race and climate.
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Poor People's Campaign: Moral March on Washington and to the Polls - Sat, June 18
2022-06-18 10:00 - 12:00 UTC
The Poor People’s Campaign will assemble and march on Saturday, June 18, 2022 in Washington, D.C., because any nation that ignores nearly half of its citizens is in a moral, economic and political crisis. 140 million people were poor or one emergency away from economic ruin before the pandemic. Since March 2020, hundreds of thousands of people have died, while millions are on the edge of hunger and eviction, and still without health care or living wages. The Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & Moral March will be a generationally-transformative declaration of the power of poor and low-wealth people and our moral allies.
9 a.m. ET – Gather
10 a.m. ET – March
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A Consultation on Cities: Mombasa, Kenya
2022-07-26 08:00 - 09:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
A Consultation on Cities: Mombasa, KenyaTuesday, July 26, 20225 a.m. San Francisco | 8 a.m. New York | 2 p.m. Paris | 3 p.m. Mombasa

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This consultation will focus on sharing knowledge with local social and faith leaders in Mombasa, Kenya, predominantly of the Muslim, Hindu and Christian religious traditions — highlighting a duty of care for the environment, particularly in the context of urban ecosystems.

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) identifies urban ecosystems as “radical transformations of natural areas” to serve a quality of life that modern society have come to expect and rely on. The UN Decade calls for greater commitments from civic groups and municipal authorities to set ambitious and innovative targets and fast-track sustainable urban ecosystems.

This consultation is part of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration series, Values, Culture and Spirituality.

#GenerationRestoration

A Consultation on Cities: Mombasa, Kenya
2022-07-26 08:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York)
A Consultation on Cities: Mombasa, KenyaTuesday, July 26, 20225 a.m. San Francisco | 8 a.m. New York | 2 p.m. Paris | 3 p.m. Mombasa

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The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) identifies urban ecosystems as “radical transformations of natural areas” to serve a quality of life that modern society have come to expect and rely on. The UN Decade calls for greater commitments from civic groups and municipal authorities to set ambitious and innovative targets and fast-track sustainable urban ecosystems.

On Tuesday, July 26, at 8 a.m. (New York time), the Center for Earth Ethics will host a zoom event, “A Consultation on Cities: Mombasa, Kenya,” that will address truly sustainable urban ecosystems. This consultation will focus on sharing knowledge with the city’s social and faith leaders — predominantly from Muslim, Hindu and Christian religious traditions.

The participants will highlight the duty of care for their vibrant urban ecosystem:

What “ecosystem restoration” looks like in Mombasa.What role houses of worship and faith-based institutions can play in creating more green spaces with cities.The benefit that houses of worship and faith-based institutions bring to the regeneration movement.

This consultation is the third consultation in the series, Values, Culture and Spirituality, organized by CEE in collaboration with the UN Environment Programme’s Faith for Earth Initiative, will host a conversation to support the UN Decade’s efforts by spotlighting restoration projects around the world. Previous consultations have examined air in St. James Parish, Louisianaand water in India’s River Yamuna.

#GenerationRestoration

Values, Culture and Spirituality - A Consultation on Species: The Philippine Eagle
2022-09-08 06:00 - 07:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us as we delve into the world of the critically endangered Philippine Eagle and hear from an indigenous community working with others to protect their sacred species. How can that sacredness help protect the species and the ecosystems in which it lives? And how can working together with, and in support of, Indigenous peoples bring new solutions to conservation? This is the fourth dialogue on Values, Culture and Spirituality.

36.5 / New York Estuary
2022-09-14 07:27 - 20:06 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Cove, 31-10 Vernon Blvd., Queens, New York, United States
36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea is a series of nine site-specific performances and video artworks that engage the public in conversations about deep time and sea-level rise. Interdisciplinary artist Sarah Cameron Sunde stands in a tidal bay for the full tidal cycle (12-13 hours) as water engulfs her body and then reveals it again. She partners with local organizations and invites the public to participate by standing in the water with her and by marking each passing hour from the shore. These works have been created with hundreds of people in communities around the world: Maine, Mexico, San Francisco, the Netherlands, Bangladesh, Brazil, Kenya, and Aotearoa-New Zealand.

36.5 / New York Estuary is the ninth and final work in the series. Join Executive Director Karenna Gore and others as they join Sunde at the Cove in Astoria, Queens.

This duration, 7:27 a.m. to 8:06 p.m. (12 hours, 39 minutes), relates to the timing of the full tidal cycle in Lenapehoking-New York City near The Cove on September 14, 2022

NYC Climate Week
2022-09-19 08:00 - 2022-09-25 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Image: 2014 People’s Climate March in NYC – 311,000 People in NYC, 600,000 People Worldwide

NYC Climate Week is already gearing up with special events, speakers and mobilizing efforts underway!

Holistic Climate Solutions Summit
2022-09-19 08:00 - 2022-09-25 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Tzu Chi Center, 229 East 60th Street, New York, New York, United States
The Center for Earth Ethics is delighted to partner with Tzu Chi for the Holistic Climate Solutions Summit, September 19 – 25, 2022, for Climate Week NYC!

If we want a livable, sustainable future, we need to act now. That’s why this climate week, we’re getting together with activists, leaders, experts, and community members to have real conversations about the state of our environment and where we can go from here.

From September 19th to September 25th, the Tzu Chi Center will be hosting the Holistic Climate Solutions Summit, a week-long event jam packed with thought-provoking panels, interactive workshops, and community discussions. Be sure to bring your sense of revolutionary optimism as we come together for a better tomorrow.
