"Spirit of Place": A Hudson Valley Climate Training
2025-06-13 14:00 - 2025-06-14 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Ashokan Center, 477 Beaverkill Rd, Olivebridge, New York, 12461, United States
The Center for Earth Ethics is thrilled to bring our faith, spirituality and climate training to the Hudson Valley this June. The Center has hosted Faith and Climate trainings since 2016. When both nature and society face many threats, community, spiritual connection, and bioregional knowledge are indispensable. This convening is a vital opportunity to come together, learn from leaders and one another, and renew our commitment to the challenging work ahead.

This training, designed for leaders and active members of all faiths and traditions, will support participants in responding to the climate crisis, with a focus on ecology and biocultural heritage of the Hudson Valley. The program will address climate science and policy, bioregionalism, local watershed and foodshed issues, and environmental justice initiatives. We will share skills to offer spiritual support and pastoral care, co-create ritual and ceremony, communicate science through an ethical lens, and learn from the land and water. The program will run from Friday afternoon through Saturday evening with an optional stay through Sunday morning.

The training will be held at The Ashokan Center, New York State’s oldest environmental education center. Adjacent to the Ashokan Reservoir in the Catskills foothills, The Ashokan Center hosts cultural, educational and community programming in its historic buildings powered by 100% renewable energy. Our program will integrate the outdoor classroom, forest and stream of this special site. Miles of hiking trails, kayaks, and a wood-heated sauna are available to participants, alongside a fully vegetarian, high-quality menu. Participants may stay onsite or commute from home. Learn more about the Center’s facilities.

Although preference will be given to people connected to faith and spiritual communities in the Hudson Valley, the training is open to all who feel called to apply.By application; apply at the link below.In person only; onsite lodging available. Please contact us at info@centerforearthethics.orgwith any questions. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.

Faith For Climate, Brasilia
2025-08-13 17:00 - 19:00 | New York
CEE is honored that Executive Director Karenna Gore will be a participant at the “Memorial of Indigenous People” event on Wednesday, August 13 at 5 pm in Brasilia. This spiritual and ethical gathering—a call for climate justice, global ethics and hope in defense of all forms of life—is part of Brazil’s journey toward COP30 later this year.

Taking place ahead of the Global Ethical Stocktake, the forum will feature over 100 Indigenous, Afro-Brazilian, interfaith and youth leaders, in addition to:

Marina Silva – Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Brazil

Karenna Gore – Executive Director, Center for Earth Ethics (CEE)

Ana Toni – Executive Director of COP30

Guilherme Syrkis – Centro Brasil no Clima

Moema Salgado – ISER

Sérgio Xavier – Fórum Brasileiro de Mudança do Clima; COP30 Envoy

Sônia Guajajara – Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Brazil

Co-sponsors include Centro Brasil No Clima, Memorial Dos Povos Indígenas, Forum Brasileiro De Mudanca Do Clima, Secretaria de Cultura e Economía Criativa, ISER, The Climate Reality Project, Fé no Clima and the Center for Earth Ethics.

Katrina 20: Faith, Climate & Justice | A Moral Witness Dialogue
2025-08-28 14:45 - 17:00 | TEP Interpretive Center, 5909 St Claude Ave, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70117, United States
On August 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM, join GreenFaith USA and the Center for Earth Ethics in New Orleans for Katrina 20: Faith, Climate & Justice, an interfaith gathering marking the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Part of the UNFCCC and Brazilian government’s Global Ethical Stocktake leading up to COP30, this free public event will explore the moral and spiritual dimensions of the climate crisis through the lived experiences of Gulf South communities.

Co-moderated by Karenna Gore of the Center for Earth Ethics and Jacqui Patterson of the Chisholm Legacy Project with opening and closing reflections from a special nationally recognized guest, the panel will feature faith and frontline leaders who have spent the past two decades rebuilding, resisting environmental racism, and envisioning a just future.

Participants include:

Bette Billiot – Community Organizer, Leadership Team Member for LA Liberation & Sovereignty Collective, Co-Director of Bayou Youth Leadership Project

Toi Carter – Louisiana Just Recovery Network Executive Director, MS Gulf Coast Katrina Survivor

Dr. Angela Chalk – Founder and Executive Director of Healthy Community Services

Reverend Tyrone Edwards – Plaquemines Parish Councilman, Former Member of Black Panther Party, Voting Rights and Climate Organizer Activist, Zion Travelers Cooperative Center Founder

Scott Eustis – Community Science Director, Healthy Gulf

Anthony Giancatarino – Taproot Earth Co-Director/Strategy Partner

Chenier “Klie” Kliebert – Imagine Water Works Founding Director; Creole Indigenous Climate Leader

Ms. Sharon Lavigne – Executive Director and Founder of Rise St. James

Gregory N. Swafford – Healthy Gulf Southeast Louisiana Organizer; Katrina Class of St. Augustine, Founding Director of Culture of Cleanliness

Darrilyn Turner – Zion Travelers Cooperative Center Executive Director

Music performances by local jazz musicians will open the dialogue, and MS Poet and director of the Cosmic Poetry Sanctuary Artis Burney will draw the event to a close.

Local food will be provided by Sweet Anoni’s catering.

COURSE | SU 190: Climate Ethics (Online)
2025-09-16 18:45 - 2025-10-14 21:15 | New York
ONLINE9/16, 30 & 10/7, 14 Tuesdays (6:45-9:15pm EST) Instructor: Karenna GoreCost: $150

Climate Ethics is a framework for examining the moral issues that have arisen within the global climate crisis, and the implications for what to do about it. It includes framing questions such as: how do we respond to the reality that communities hurt first and most intensely by the crisis are generally those least responsible for causing it?; what are our responsibilities to future generations?; what values shape our relationships with other-than-human species and the elements of nature?; what are the threats and opportunities of proposed technological solutions?; what are the laws and social norms that undergird the status quo?; how can we create positive change? The course will provide basic literacy in climate science and case studies of impacts, but it focuses on an understanding of the drivers of human behavior that are shaping our shared biosphere. Recognizing that the climate crisis is about more than data, science, and technology (as important as they are), Climate Ethics explores how to draw from values, culture and spirituality to heal and protect the life-support system of the Earth.

BIPOC Climate Justice Summit
2025-09-21 09:30 - 16:00 | New York
On Sunday, September 21, the Center for Earth Ethics is co-sponsoring the 5th annual BIPOC Climate Justice Summit: Power Shift, an all-day public event launching NYC Climate Week at Columbia University. This year’s summit convenes frontline communities, organizers, researchers, funders and public servants to build collective power and advance transformative climate justice.

This summit aims to catalyze global collaboration to drive progress on climate justice, particularly across the following themes:

The Power Shift | Elevating frontline leadership, movement diplomacy and community mandates in the lead-up to COP30 and beyond.

The Knowledge Shift | Confronting extractive systems of science, law and philanthropy while uplifting collective wisdom and decolonized knowledge.

The Policy Shift | Exploring how local and federal governments can redistribute power through participatory governance and justice-centered decision making.

The System Shift | Grounding climate justice in reparations, mutual aid, land back and regenerative practices led by BIPOC communities.

Mutual Aid as Strategy | Highlighting mutual aid not as charity, but as a foundational, reparative practice and organizing model for a just climate future.

Through dynamic panels, interactive booths and creative activations, this gathering aims to ignite alignment across sectors and build momentum for the shifts needed to deliver climate justice. The summit is led by the HBCU Green Fund, Donors of Color Network and ACE Observatory, with Columbia University as host partner.

Beyond COP30: Leadership for a New Era
2025-09-24 08:30 - 09:20 | Lavan Midtown New York, 641 W 42nd St, New York, New York, 10036, United States
On Wednesday, September 24, CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore will appear as a featured speaker at Beyond COP30: Leadership for a New Era, hosted by TED Countdown and Futerra. She will join Lindsay Levin, co-founder of TED Countdown, and Tulio Andrade, chief strategy officer of the COP30 Presidency, for a dialogue on the leadership and imagination required to meet this pivotal moment.

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

The climate crisis has never been just a scientific or political challenge — it’s a test of our imagination, courage and conscience. In an era when conversations have grown too insular and institutions are faltering, COP 30 comes at a time of profound disruption, but also possibility.

​Join Lindsay Levin, co-founder of the global climate initiative TED Countdown, for a conversation with guests about the stories we tell, and the leadership required to navigate the complexity of this moment. Together, we’ll explore

​How do we speak about the future in ways that invite connection, belonging and shared purpose?

​How might Brazil’s vision of a Global Mutirão — a collective uprising of care and action — take root?

​Why is the Global Ethical Stocktake so important – and how can we each play our part in it?

​Speakers

​Karenna Gore, founder of the Center for Earth Ethics, and co-leader for the North American Dialogue of the Global Ethical Stocktake

​Tulio Andrade, Chief Strategy Officer, COP 30 Presidency

Season of Creation Interfaith Gathering
2025-10-01 12:00 - 13:00 | The Interchurch Center Chapel, 61 Claremont Avenue, New York, New York, 10115, United States
On September 1, 1989, Ecumenical Patriarch Demetrios I issued a prophetic message on the urgency of care for the environment, marking the first annual “Day of Prayer for Creation.” The message was taken up, and in the decades since, a Season of Creation has been observed across many Christian denominations worldwide between September 1 and October 4 (the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of all animals and the environment). Over the last two years, a seminar in Assisi attended by leaders from nearly all major denominations has been working to institute the Feast of Creation formally as a shared major feast in liturgical calendars across the Christian world—the first such achievement since 1456. This year also marks the ten-year anniversary of the late Pope Francis’ landmark ecological encyclical, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home.

The Interchurch Center, in 2025, will honor and participate in this process by adding a Season of Creation Interfaith Gathering to its own calendar. We recognize that, as inspiring and important as the Feast of Creation will be among the Christian churches, the integrity of creation is a bedrock for interfaith collaboration and fraternity far more broadly, and we take the opportunity to recommit our diverse religious communities, hand in hand, to moral and institutional responsibility to the Earth of which we are a part.

The gathering—on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 12:00-1:00 pm—will be hosted by Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute (GEII) and the Interfaith Center of New York (ICNY), in collaboration with the Interchurch Center’s Committee on Ecumenical, Interfaith, and Community Concerns (CEICC) and Union Theological Seminary’s Center for Earth Ethics (CEE).

Wednesday, October 1, 202512:00-1:00 pm EasternThe Interchurch Center Chapel61 Claremont AvenueNew York, NY 10115In-person and livestreamed: YouTube link to follow

Book Talk | "Sacred Resistance: Eco-Activism and the Rise of New Spiritual Communities"
2025-10-21 17:30 - 19:30 | The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway
Join the Center for Earth Ethics and Union Theological Seminary’s Eco-Justice Caucus at UTS’s Burke Library for a dialogue and discussion with Mark Clatterbuck, editor of a new volume from Orbis Books. With a forward by Winona LaDuke, “Sacred Resistance” weaves together “five deep and rich case studies of spiritually-based eco-activism written by those engaged in the struggle.”

Please enter at the northwest corner of 120th and Broadway.

Fall 2025 Faith Sector Forum: Building Hope & Safety in a Changing Climate
2025-11-05 09:30 - 13:00 | Rebuild By Design
Faith organizations play a central role in supporting New Yorkers during crises, yet many lack access to the tools and training needed to plan for future risks. The NYC Faith Sector Climate Adaptation Working Group, convened by New York Disaster & Interfaith Services (NYDIS) and Rebuild by Design, invites faith leaders and partners to a focused discussion on how the faith sector can work together to prepare for these growing challenges.

This convening will introduce the Faith Sector Climate Adaptation Toolkit, developed through site visits, trainings, and conversations with leaders in all five boroughs. The toolkit offers practical resources to strengthen preparedness, communication, and advocacy. Participants will engage in panels and breakout sessions to share experiences, identify needs, and explore ways to build collective capacity for a safer and more resilient city.

Science and Spirituality: An Ethical Stocktake Dialogue to Inspire COP30
2025-11-05 13:00 - 14:30 | New York
Why do we deny or ignore what both science and other ways of knowing teach us about the climate crisis? How can we learn from spiritual traditions and practices to live in balance with nature?

Join the Center for Earth Ethics and Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology online on Wednesday, November 5, at 1 p.m. (ET) for “Science and Spirituality: An Ethical Stocktake Dialogue to Inspire COP30.” Part of the Global Ethical Stocktake—an initiative of the COP30 presidency led by Minister of the Environment and Climate of Brazil, Marina Silva—this dialogue will inform the GES report for COP30 and amplify the newly released Living Earth Community website.

Key Questions

The Global Ethical Stocktake seeks answers to five strategic questions. Each dialogue must address at least one of them:

Why, even when aware of the risks, do we deny or ignore what science and traditional knowledge tell us about the climate crisis?

Why do we maintain models of production and consumption that harm the most vulnerable and contradict the goals of Mission 1.5°C?

What can be done to ensure that wealthy countries accelerate their transitions and contribute financially to the most vulnerable?

What cultural or spiritual traditions and practices from your community teach how to live in balance with nature?

How can we mobilize more people, leaders, businesses, and nations to support fair and ethical change? What values can inspire this mission?

Host: Karenna Gore | Executive Director of Center for Earth Ethics

Moderator: Mary Evelyn Tucker | Co-Director of Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, Living Earth Community

Participants:

Lyla June Johnston | Musician, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages

Ursula Goodenough | Professor Emerita of biology at Washington University in St. Louis; Author of “Sacred Depths of Nature.”

Melanie Harris | Professor of Black feminist thought and womanist theology at Wake Forest School of Divinity; Director of Food Health and Ecological Well-Being Program

Mirian Vilela | Executive Director of Earth Charter International Secretariat, Executive Director of the Center for Education for Sustainable Development at University for Peace

Steve Kolmes | Editor of Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development; Professor Emeritus of environmental studies at University of Portland

Live Interview | Karenna Gore on the Young Turks
2025-11-06 20:30 - 21:00 | New York
CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore joins The Young Turks this evening to discuss the Global Ethical Stocktake, COP30, climate ethics, and more!

Tune in tonight at 8:30 PM ET at TYT.com!

A conversation on the Global Ethical Stocktake with Marina da Silva, Al Gore, Karenna Gore and Wanjira Mathai
2025-11-14 11:00 - 12:30 | TED Countdown House
Join Brazil’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change Marina Silva and co-leaders of the Global Ethical Stocktake for a conversation moderated by former US Vice President Al Gore. The conversation will explore the role of ethics and moral leadership at a time of great risk but also great opportunity, as well as ways to engage civil society in creating the world they want to see.

​Host: Center for Earth Ethics and Global Ethical Stocktake

​Speakers:

​Karenna Gore, Founder and Executive Director, Center for Earth Ethics

​Marina da Silva, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change of Brazil

​Al Gore, former US Vice President and Climate Leader, Climate Reality Project & Climate TRACE

​Wanjira Mathai, Managing Director, Africa & Global Partnerships, World Resources Institute

​Note: This event will have booth translation in Portuguese and Spanish

​Please note: Unfortunately, this event is not fully accessible – it’s only accessible by stairs. If you have any accessibility questions, please contact us at countdown@ted.com — we’re happy to provide more information.

Climate Wisdom from COP30 | Empowering Communities, Protecting the Planet
2025-11-14 17:00 - 19:00 | New York
On November 14 at 5 p.m. ET, CEE’s Karenna Gore will join a live COP30 panel discussion in the Climate Wisdom series, hosted by the Brahma Kumaris Environment Initiative. This session will feature insights and experiences from global leaders, including Maureen Goodman, Kumi Naidoo and Golo Pilz. Panelists will share practical examples of innovation, collaboration and policy progress emerging in the COP—and first-hand accounts of the transformative wisdom needed to tackle the most pressing challenge of our time.• Maureen Goodman, Director Brahma Kumaris, UK • Kumi Naidoo, President, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty • Karenna Gore, Director, Centre for Earth Ethics • Moderator: Golo Pilz, Adviser Renewable Energy Brahma Kumaris

The climate crisis is a spiritual crisis: A multifaith Global Ethical Stocktake event
2025-11-15 14:00 - 15:30 | TED Countdown House
This session explores how faith, spirituality, and moral imagination can drive courageous climate action. We will examine how people of all faiths—and none—can act meaningfully together even in a tough political landscape. Together, speakers and audience, will help shape a Global Ethical Stocktake submission on the role of faith in building a just and regenerative future.

​Hosts: Project Dandelion, Laudato Si’ Movement, Center for Earth Ethics, Women, Faith and Climate Network, Baha’i International Community, The Brahma Kumaris

​Speakers:

​Moderator: Nika Sinai, Baha’i artist and the Office of External Affairs Director for the Baha’ community in Australia

​Dr. Lorna Gold, Executive Director, Laudato Sì Movement

​Samira Siddique, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Center for Earth Ethics

​Maureen Goodman, Programme Director for the Brahma Kumaris UK, Brahma Kumaris representative at the UN, Vienna

​Thaynah Gutierrez, Geledés Black Women’s Institute

​Note: This event will have booth translation in Portuguese and Spanish

​Please note: Unfortunately, this event is not fully accessible – it’s only accessible by stairs. If you have any accessibility questions, please contact us at countdown@ted.com — we’re happy to provide more information.

Reflections from Belém: Columbia at COP30
2025-12-01 16:30 - 17:30 | The Forum at Columbia University, 601 West 125th St., New York, NY 10027
As the world turns from negotiation to implementation following COP30 in Belém, the Columbia Climate School invites you to join the final installment of the Countdown to COP30 series: Reflections from Belém: Columbia at COP30.

This closing session will feature firsthand insights from Columbia faculty and student delegates who attended COP30, highlighting key takeaways, breakthrough moments, and the road ahead. The discussion will explore what was achieved in Belém, how Columbia contributed, and how the university will continue to support global climate implementation and accountability efforts moving forward.

Moderated by Jeffrey Schlegelmilch, associate professor of professional practice in the Faculty of Climate, Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP), director of executive education and non-degree programs, Executive Education

Panelist

Sheila Foster– Professor of Climate, Columbia Climate School

Amy Campbell – Executive Office of the UN Secretary General (Adaptation Workstream), Former UK Climate Negotiator and Climate School Alumna

Karenna Gore– Executive Director, Center for Earth Ethics, & Teaching Professor of Practice of Earth Ethics, Union Theological Seminary

Reception to follow from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM next door in Room 316

Round Table | "Climate Justice Now" Book Launch
2026-03-05 16:15 - 18:15 | The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University, 74 Morningside Dr, New York, New York, 10027, United States
On Thursday, March 5, CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore will join a roundtable discussion marking the launch of “Climate Justice Now: Crossing Disciplines to Combat our Planetary Crisis”—a new “multidisciplinary book that offers a critical exploration of debates on climate justice across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities.” Karenna will join Jennifer Hadden and Emily H. G. Cooperdock of Brown University, and Michael Brownstein of CUNY to discuss the new volume and challenges currently facing the climate justice movement.

A livestream link is available for those unable to attend the in-person event.

Book Description: Climate change is not only an environmental crisis but also a catalyst for worsening socioeconomic inequalities, leading to widespread calls for “climate justice.” This multidisciplinary book offers a comprehensive exploration of debates on climate justice across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Synthesizing these divergent approaches, it develops a new conceptual framework that transcends disciplinary divides, providing a deeper and richer understanding of climate justice. Contributors make an urgent case that climate justice must be centered within and across disciplines, creating a roadmap for multidisciplinary research and pedagogy on the climate crisis. Featuring a wide range of voices and actionable recommendations, this timely book illuminates how scholarship on climate change can become a call to action.

Seasons of Reckoning: The Practice of Moral Accounting
2026-03-09 13:00 - 14:15 | New York
This spring, CEE is participating in Seasons of Responsibility: Interreligious Conversations on Environmental Justice and Repair, an online learning series hosted by Jewish Theological Seminary that explores responsibility, agency and repair in the face of urgent ecological challenges. On February 9, CEE Strategic Advisor Roberto Múkaro Borrero took part in the session “Indigenous Leadership and Ecological Responsibility,” in conversation with Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay, associate dean of The Rabbinical School and executive director of the JTS Hendel Center for Ethics and Justice.

On March 9, CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore will be a featured speaker in “Seasons of Reckoning: The Practice of Moral Accounting” alongside Rabbi Burton L. Visotzky, JTS Professor Emeritus and CEE Advisory Board member.All seven sessions in this series will consider how spiritual, religious and wisdom traditions can inspire ethical action and cultivate collective hope.

Women, Ethics, and Climate Futures: Reflections on the Global Ethical Stocktake Dialogues
2026-03-11 12:00 - 13:15 | New York
Join us for an official parallel event happening alongside the seventieth session of theUN Commission on the Status of Women. This interactive online session will reflect on the Global Ethical Stocktake, a COP30-linked dialogue process that explores the moral, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of collective decision-making on climate. The event, which CEE is co-hosting with Parliament of the World’s Religions, the Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Engagement at Seattle University, the Green Hope Foundation and the Green Tent Circle, will feature panel reflections and facilitated small-group dialogue on responsibility, care and climate action.

The Earth in Trust: Law, Faith Traditions, and the Work Of Environmental Accountability
2026-04-23 18:30 - 20:30 | Fordham University – Lincoln Center School of Law, Moot Court, Room 1-01, 150 West 62nd Street, New York, New York, 10023
On Thursday, April 23, CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore will join Adam D Orford (Fordham Law School), Kit Kennedy (NRDC) and Hakan Yesilova (The Fountain Magazine) for an interdisciplinary conversation hosted by Fordham University’s Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer’s Work, The Pastrana Foundation, and the Peace Islands Institute. Panelists will explore how interfaith perspectives and legal expertise engage the urgent challenges of environmental and climate justice.

Recent debates over climate governance and regulatory authority have underscored how contested the foundations of environmental responsibility and accountability remain. Against this backdrop, this interdisciplinary conversation will highlight how legal frameworks intersect with enduring religious traditions of stewardship, solidarity and care for vulnerable communities. Grounded in the pursuit of the common good, panelists will examine how law and faith traditions can deepen responsibility, sustain hope, and inspire compassionate action for the Earth and for one another in an ecological age.

The event is hosted in collaboration with Fordham Environmental Law Advocates and the Center for Earth Ethics.

Book Talk | "Unmoored Yet Unbroken: Ecopsychology for a Changing World"
2026-04-28 17:30 - 19:30 | New York
Join the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary’s Burke Library for a dialogue and discussion co-moderated by CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore and Susan Bodnar, editor of “Unmoored Yet Unbroken.” This new volume presents “a rich tapestry of global narratives highlighting the psychological impact of environmental changes.”

Contributing authors will join the conversation to explore the intricate relationship between humans and the natural world—and how protecting this relationship is vital for mental health and essential in fighting climate change.

Please enter at 120th and Broadway.

Spirit of Place, Spirit of Earth: An Eco-Justice Training
2026-06-12 12:00 - 2026-06-14 14:00 | The Ashokan Center, 477 Beaverkill Rd, Olivebridge, New York, 12461, United States
How do we recognize and honor our innate belonging to the Earth? How is this sense of ecological belonging a spiritual and religious matter? What does it teach us about justice, and how do we tend it within our communities and across the bounds of space, time, and species? How are these lessons learned and felt from direct experience with the land?

The Center for Earth Ethics will explore these questions and more at our faith, spirituality and climate training, which is returning to the Ashokan Center in New York’s Hudson Valley this June.This program, designed for leaders and members of all faiths and spiritual traditions, will address climate science and policy, bioregionalism, environmental and climate justice, spiritual and religious perspectives on ecological belonging, and the power of collective action and moral courage.

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World Peace and Prayer Day:"All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer"
2026-06-20 08:00 - 2026-06-21 17:00 | New York
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 20 and 21—the summer solstice—everyone, regardless of origin, nation, religion or belief, is encouraged to gather at sacred sites to pray: “All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer.”

There will be in-person programming centered at Mathó Pahá (Bear Butte) in the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota. Events will be live-streamed on from 10 A.M to 5 P.M. MT on Saturday, June 20. Speakers include CEE’s Karenna Gore, Kanahus Manuel, Pala Tootoosis, Josh Dini, Valeriah Big Eagle, Anissa Martin, Lisa Bellanger, Linda and Buz Daney, Krystal Two Bulls Jackie Andrew, Faith Spotted Eagle, Iktomi Waste Winyan Favel, Carla Rae Marshall, Duane Two Bulls, Cedric and Sissy Good House, Guy Jones, Sarah James and Jackie Bird.

For a full list of events and programming, visit the event website.

Global Ethical Stocktake (GES) Initiative & Film Premiere
2026-06-22 14:30 - 17:30 | Institute of Contemporary Arts, 12 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH, United Kingdom
During London Climate Week, join leaders from the Brazilian Government and the Global Ethical Stocktake (GES) network for the official launch of the International GES Initiative & Documentary World Premiere.

The launch event focuses on the intersection of ethics, social justice, and climate implementation. With the legacy of COP30 as its foundation, the Global Ethical Stocktake now serves as a continuous moral compass. By keeping the “global mutirão” spirit alive, the initiative ensures that the commitments reinforced in the past are translated into ethical action and effective implementation for the climate cycles to come.

The event will feature the first global screening of the feature-length documentary “A People’s Stocktake—A Story of the Global Ethical Stocktake” documenting the 2025 journey of listening diverse voices across six global regions.

Turning Tides: Policy, Ethics, and the Promise of Clean Water
2026-07-28 13:00 - 14:30 | New York
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?

Join 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.

Featured speakers:

Bette Billiot: Co-founder, Louisiana Liberation and Sovereignty Collective; United Houma Nation Tribe of Louisiana

Yenny Vega Cárdenas: President, International Observatory on the Rights of Nature

Paul Gallay: Strategic Advisor, Center for Earth Ethics; Director, Resilient Coastal Communities Project (Columbia Climate School)

Karenna Gore: Executive Director, Center for Earth Ethics

Maggie Greenfield: Consultant, Center for Earth Ethics

Samira Siddique: Director of Strategic Initiatives, Center for Earth Ethics

The Immorality of Inaction: Voicing Truth on Climate
2026-09-18 15:00 - 18:00 | Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive, New York, New York, 10027
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.

We 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.

Speakers include:

Al Gore

Bishop William Barber II

Paul Gallay

Karenna Gore

Oren Lyons

Wanjira Mathai

Sophia Powless

Charitie Ropati

Rabbi Jennie Rosenn

Elizabeth Yeampierre…and more to be announced

Women's Water Walk
2026-09-19 08:00 - 2026-10-04 17:00 | New York
CEE is excited to co-sponsor the Women’s Water Walk, a 113 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.

Reawakening Humanity's Sacred Connection with Earth
2026-09-20 08:30 - 17:30 | Lee Bollinger Forum, 601 West 125th Street, New York, New York, 10027, United States
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.

"The Problem With Plastics": A Book Talk with Judith Enck and Karenna Gore
2026-10-01 17:00 - 18:30 | The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway
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.
