50 Years of Environmental Justice with Catherine Flowers
2020-04-14 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
On this 50th Anniversary of Earth Day – who could have imagined what kind of world we are experiencing now?

Tuesday April 14 at 2 PM ET – Listen Now

Catherine Flowers, a past WasteWater Education Board member, is a Franklin Center for the Humanities Practitioner in Residence. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, she is a fierce advocate for the under served and largely ignored working poor.

In this lecture, as part of our Earth Month series of public outreach events, Catherine will reflect on the disparity of progress made in the past 50 years of the environmental movement – a disparity still in evidence today.

Catherine is an internationally recognized advocate for the human right to water and sanitation as expressed in the UN Sustainable Development Agenda. In 2019 she testified before the US House Committee. She is a Professor of Practice at Duke University.

In April we have partnered with some amazing people and organizations who have given generously of their time and expertise to provide events at no cost to attendees.

See WasteWater Education’s Earth Month Page as we are adding new events all the time. Our live attendance space is limited to 195 but we will be posting recordings here and in our WasteWater Education YouTube Channel

Mashpee Wampanoag Solidarity Training
2020-04-19 17:00 - 19:00 UTC
Learn how to support the Mashpee Wampanoag as they reverse the “disestablishment” of their tribal lands.
In this course, people across the country and internationally will learn to help the Mashpee Wampanoag retain their tribal lands from a recent federal assault. We will close the webinar with a Dream Warriors live concert. United we are unstoppable!
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Last month, the Department of the Interior announced that Mashpee Wampanoag lands would be removed from federal trust and its reservation proclamation would be revoked. In our next webinar, participants will learn how to help directly from Mashpee Wampanoag tribal members to generate a national shield for their sovereignty. The disestablishment of their reservation is unacceptable, and to make this announcement during the COVID crisis is deeply cruel.
These 321 acres are all the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe has left. It is home to their health care system, tribal court system, education system, language immersion programs and more. We as a nation of many nations, are prepared to stand with the Wampanoag in peace and prayer to stop this critical assault on their community. If this precedent is established, other Indigenous communities could be likewise threatened. Any further erosion of native land holdings on this continent equates the further erosion of the dignity of American society. But while our ancestors were once divided, we of many races are prepared to stand united in support of the Wampanoag to rectify the wrongs of the past.
Participants in this webinar will receive an update on the situation from Mashpee Wampanoag tribal members, a training on how to help them at this time, and a live concert from the Dream Warriors Indigenous Artist’s Collective to close it up. We believe that through nation-wide organizing, political communications and prayerful unification, we can pass the congressional legislation needed to uphold Wampanoag sovereignty.
We are excited to see you all on Sunday, April 19th from 2-4 PM Pacific time and if you can’t make the live webinar, please register still and you will receive a recording.A portion of the proceeds from suggested donations will go to the Mashpee Wampanoag Nation. The remainder will help native families struggling in the COVID 19 crisis. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Everyone of every background is encouraged to join.
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Reclaiming Indigenous Paths to Health in Times of Planetary Crises: From Colonialism to Climate Injustice and COVID-19
2020-04-20 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Halifax)
We live in unsettling times of converging environmental and health crises. Globally, from climate change and mass species extinction to the spread of both chronic and communicable diseases—now including COVID-19, we face catastrophes that compel us to rethink life and health as a whole. As ‘modern’ societies grapple with a seemingly ‘unprecedented’ planetary chaos, now preceded by an indefinite suspension of the ‘normal’ way of life (given COVID-19), Indigenous Peoples locate these crises differently, as part of a long sequence of devastating environmental disruptions and pandemics spreading from the onset of violent conquest to the climate and health injustices of globalization’s (neo)colonial and settler colonial present.
Being distinctively and particularly impacted all along, Indigenous resistance and resilience find strength in the embodied knowledge that another world is possible outside and beyond the colonial present of environmental and health injustices. This other, Indigenous world, is rooted in an encircling notion of whole health that has been passed down by Indigenous ancestors through generations of survivance and struggle, even in the face of relentless colonial and patriarchal aggression, including systematic attempts to erase Indigenous cultures, practices and knowledges. While richly diverse, many Indigenous Peoples share a holistic vision of health based on reciprocity and care of the sacred relations among the health of the land, the community (including humans and non-humans), the body and the spirit. From Indigenous knowledges, illness and instability come from imbalances among relations, including among societies and with Mother Earth.
As modern societies are forced, however painfully, to pause their frantic pursuit of ‘economic growth’ at all costs (often in ways that aggravate systemic injustices), we must ask not how to ‘restart’ the same system that has been destroying lands and disrupting the climate for centuries while failing to address many of the world’s basic health and nutrition needs. Instead, we must ask; how do we reclaim other visions and knowledges that can guide us to healthier, more just and sustainable futures?
In this webinar, Indigenous knowledge-bearers, Martha Many Grey Horses and Marcelo Eduardo Zaiduni Salazar join moderators Mindahi Bastida and Leonardo Figueroa to discuss the challenges to Indigenous health from past to present crises, as well as alternatives based on Indigenous whole health approaches.
Watch Live Stream, April 20th, 6 pm EDT
Our Speakers:

Marcelo Eduardo Zaiduni Salazar is from Bolivia, with Aymara and Aramaic parents. He is a social communicator as well as a traditional doctor and expert in ancestral knowledge. He is a former Vice Minister of Traditional Medicine and Interculturality of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, as well as a former Vice Consul of the Plurinational State of Bolivia in Cusco Peru. He is currently a consultant for several agencies on the topic of multidimensional indicators and Good Living.

Dr. Martha Many Grey Horses is a member of the Kainai First Nation of the Blackfoot Confederacy of Canada. She was raised on her parents’ ranch situated along the Bullhorn Creek on the reserve. Martha comes from a long lineage of hereditary chiefs on her mother’s side; her grandparents and parents were spiritual leaders of the traditional Blackfoot societies. Her people hung on to the sacred traditions and practices as best they could. It meant they held their annual summer encampment where the clans came together and there the societies would have their ceremonies. As a junior youth, Martha was initiated to a Keeper of a Medicine Pipe Bundle. She continues to carry her role and responsibility.

Mindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz is Director of the Original Caretakers program at the Center for Earth Ethics. He serves as the general coordinator of the Otomi-Hñahñu Regional Council in Mexico, a caretaker of the philosophy and traditions of the Otomi Peoples, and has been an Otomi Ritual Ceremony Officer since 1988. Born in San Pedro Tultepec, Mexico State, he holds a doctorate in rural development by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and a masters in Political Science by Carleton University. Bastida Muñoz has served as a delegate to several commissions and summits on indigenous rights and the environment. He has written on the relationship between the State and Indigenous Peoples, intercultural education, sacred site, collective intellectual property rights and associated traditional knowledge, among other topics.

Leonardo Figueroa Helland is an Associate Professor of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management at The New School. He leads the Indigeneity and Sustainability project of the Tishman Environment and Design Center and co-convenes the Latin American Observatory of the Humanities for the Environment. A decolonizing scholar of mix-blood heritage (Indigenous and Euro-American), his work underlines the centrality of Indigenous resurgence and revitalization in addressing planetary crises and achieving climate justice. His latest writings appear in the Journal of World Systems Research, the journal Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, the volume on Social Movements and World-System Transformation, and the forthcoming volume on Anarchist Political Ecology. His current projects include a manuscript prospectively titled “Anthropocene” Collapse / Indigenous Resurgence: From Planetary Crises to Decolonization.

Understanding Environmental Justice and Community Health in light of Covid and Climate
2020-04-25
EARTHX Women in the Environment Summit

See the complete schedule for the EarthXWomen summit April 23 – 25.

Care of the Whole is Self-Care: Understanding Environmental Justice and Community Health in light of Covid and Climate

Center for Earth Ethics Panel

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Catherine Coleman Flowers is the founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice (CREEJ) which seeks the implementation of best practices to address the reduction of health and economic disparities, improve access to clean air, water, and soil in marginalized rural communities by influencing policy, inspiring innovation, catalyzing relevant research, and amplifying the voices of community leaders. This is done within the context of climate change and through the lens of environmental justice. A member of the Board of Directors for the Climate Reality Project, she is employed as the Rural Development Manager for the Equal Justice Initiative and serves as a Senior Fellow for the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary. Her goal is to find solutions to raw sewage that exist in rural communities throughout the United States. Catherine is also an internationally recognized advocate for the human right to water and sanitation and works to make the UN Sustainable Development Agenda accountable to front-line communities. Her journey is chronicled in her book entitled Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret, which will be published by the New Press this fall.

Lyla June is an Indigenous musician, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her dynamic, multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective and ecological healing. She blends studies in Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives and solutions. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree, focusing on Indigenous food systems revitalization.

Seneca Johnson I am 18 years old, and a senior at the Santa Fe Indian School. I live in Santa Fe New Mexico and am from the Muscogee and Seminole Nations of Oklahoma. I am a steering committee member of the non profit YUCCA, Youth United for Climate Crisis Action, a project of Earth Care. Our mission is to create sustainable social, economic, and environmental change that uplifts every member of our community.

Karenna Gore is the founder and director of the Center for Earth Ethics (CEE) at Union Theological Seminary. The Center for Earth Ethics bridges the worlds of religion, academia, policy and culture to discern and pursue the changes that are necessary to stop ecological destruction and create a society that values the long-term health of the whole. She is also an ex officio member of the faculty of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Ms. Gore’s previous experience includes serving as director of Union Forum at Union Theological Seminary, legal work at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and in the legal center of Sanctuary for Families, and as director of Community Affairs for the Association to Benefit Children (ABC). She currently serves on the boards for ABC and Riverkeeper. She has also worked as a writer and is the author of Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America. Ms. Gore is a graduate of Harvard College, Columbia Law School and Union Theological Seminary. She lives in New York City with her three children.

COVID 19 and the Earth
2020-05-12 14:15 - 14:45 UTC
Join EDS at Union on Tuesday, May 12th at 2:15 PM ET for a Facebook Live conversation between Dean Kelly Brown Douglas and Karenna Gore on COVID 19 and the Earth.
Karenna Gore is the founder and director of the Center for Earth Ethics (CEE) at Union Theological Seminary. The Center for Earth Ethics bridges the worlds of religion, academia, policy and culture to discern and pursue the changes that are necessary to stop ecological destruction.
Watch the conversation by visiting the EDS at Union Facebook page on that date and time!

Faith 2020 Roundtable: Al & Karenna Gore - Watch
2020-05-21 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
Inspired conversation with former Vice President Al Gore and daughter Karenna Gore of the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary. We talked about The Climate Reality Project, ways to think faithfully about our work amidst the Coronavirus pandemic, and the importance of our vote this election year to impact change for the greater good. We were also joined by Fred Davie, Senior Vice President at Union, and Rabbi Rachel Kobrin of Congregation Rodef Shalom in Denver, ColoradoFaith 2020 is excited to be joined by former Vice President Al Gore and CEE Director, Karenna Gore.

Former Vice President Al Gore is the co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, and the founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit devoted to solving the climate crisis. He is also a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and a member of Apple Inc.’s board of directors.
Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980, and 1982 and to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th vice president of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years.
He is the author of the #1 New York Times best-sellers “An Inconvenient Truth” and most recently, The New York Times best-seller “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.”
He is the subject of the documentary movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” which won two Oscars in 2006 — and a second documentary in 2017, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.” In 2007, Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Karenna Gore is the founder and director of the Center for Earth Ethics (CEE) at Union Theological Seminary. The Center for Earth Ethics bridges the worlds of religion, academia, policy and culture to discern and pursue the changes that are necessary to stop ecological destruction and create a society that values the long-term health of the whole. She is also an ex officio member of the faculty of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Ms. Gore’s previous experience includes serving as director of Union Forum at Union Theological Seminary, legal work at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and in the legal center of Sanctuary for Families, and serving as director of Community

Laudato Si at 5: Ecological Citizenship and Climate Justice in times of Covid-19
2020-06-18 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Fordham Law School – Zoom Webinar
Thursday, June 18, 2020 / 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | program
This event is free and open to the public.
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Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home reaches its fifth anniversary, amid a pandemic which has the power to transform ways of working, commuting, and connecting. It also reveals the deep inequities in our society, including environmental injustice that harms human health. In this dialogue, we will explore the ecological crisis in times of COVID-19 from a moral, economic, and legal perspective.
Speakers:
Kit Kennedy, Director, Energy & Transportation Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council
Karenna Gore, Director, Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary
John Mundell, President/Senior Environmental Consultant at Mundell & Associates, Inc.
Simone Borg, Law Professor and Head of the Department of Environmental Law and Resources Law at the University of Malta School of Law.
Moderators:
Rabbi Burt Visotzky, Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies and Director, Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue, Jewish Theological Seminary
Endy Moraes, Director of Fordham’s Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer’s Work.
Conveners:
Fordham’s Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer’s Work
Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary
Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue, Jewish Theological Seminary

Mass Poor People's Assembly & Moral March on Washington
2020-06-20
SIGN UP To Join the Poor People’s Campaign MASS ASSEMBLY in Washington D.C.!
On June 20, 2020 we will rise together as a powerful moral fusion movement to demand the implementation of our Moral Agenda!
The fact that there are 140 million poor and low-wealth people in a country this rich is morally indefensible, constitutionally inconsistent and economically insane. We are building power for an agenda that lifts all people by challenging the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism! #PoorPeoplesCampaign
RSVP here: bit.ly/MoralMarch2020

"Earth Stanzas" Intergenerational Poetry and Song Circle for Solstice!
2020-06-21 10:00 - 12:30 UTC
EI LIVE HOMESustain What?“Earth Stanzas” Intergenerational Poetry and Song Circle

Upcoming June 21, 2020 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST

DESCRIPTION: This special Earth Institute Sustain What webcast is an inter-generational series of readings, reflections and musical performances examining humanity’s turbulent, wondrous, fast-forward planet.
Earth Stanzas is a project of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University and the Center for Earth Ethics at the Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University.
Scheduled guests include Karenna Gore, the founder and director of the Center for Earth Ethics;
David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center and Charlie Malone, the Center’s outreach manager (both are poets as well);
Jane Hirshfield, founder of Poets for Science
and poets Sony Ton-Aime, Rachel Marco-Havens, Elizabeth Shvarts, Andrei Codrescu, Rafael Jesús González and Fatou M’Baye, youth author of model poem “Thank You, Tree.”
Live Musicians are Reggie Harris and Magpie.
The event is hosted by Andy Revkin, the founding director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability.
Join us LIVE!

Urgent Federal Climate Bills & Strategy
2020-07-01 12:00 - 13:30 UTC
Nationwide policy change is the best and only real hope for systemic action at the scale and timeline required to avert disaster.
Come learn about 9 specific bills in Congress that will shape the future of our planet – if we can pass them.
LIVE STREAM

CO-HOSTS:
★ Climate Crisis Policy
★ Columbia University Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
★ Columbia University Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy, Program in Nutrition
★ Center for Earth Ethics
★ Family Farm Action
★ Others TBA
PRESENTERS:
1. Lead Congressional Sponsors and Legislative Directors.
2. Lead Organizations backing Climate Bills (below).
3. The Climate Crisis Policy Digest.
4. Columbia University Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.
WEBINAR MATERIALS
SOLUTIONS & POLICY DIGESTS
1. Project Drawdown: 100 Solutions.
2. The Climate Crisis Policy Digest.
3. Sabin Center for Climate Change Law Model Law Initiative.
LEGISLATION
Summaries of Bills & Sponsors.
INDUSTRY MATERIALS
1. American Innovation & Manufacturing Act (Refrigerants)
2. The Break Free from Plastics Pollution Act
ENERGY & CARBON
3. The Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for Our Nation’s Future Act
4. The American Energy Innovation Act
5. The Ban Fracking Act
6. The Carbon Action Rebate Act
7. Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act of 2019
AGRICULTURE
8. Agriculture Resilience Act
9. The Climate Stewardship Act
10. The Food & Agribusiness Merger Moratorium Act
11. The Farm System Reform Act
BILL SUMMARIES:
https://bit.ly/USClimateBills
PLEASE NOTE: Participation or co-hosting is not an endorsement of any specific legislation. This is a discussion.
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Poor People's Campaign New York State Open House
2020-07-01 17:00 - 18:00 UTC
The Center for Earth Ethics is proud to have been one of more than 300 Mobilizing Partners for the Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington Digital Justice Gathering on June 20th and 21st. Two and a half million people on Facebook marched on Washington to demand an end to systemic racism, poverty, militarism and the war economy, ecological devastation, and the corrupt moral narrative of religious nationalism.
Now it’s time to get organized and continue the work of building power with and among poor folks in a statewide movement for change.
You’re invited to attend a New York State Poor People’s Campaign State Open House on Wednesday, July 1st at 5:00 PM. At this Open House we will get connected, learn more about the Campaign, and discuss the next steps to help build this movement in NY State.
This event will be held via Zoom. Those who RSVP will be sent the login information on July 1. The meeting will also be recorded and emailed to all who registered. Spanish and ASL interpretation provided.
RSVP for Poor People’s Campaign New York State Open House
Another way to support the work of the Poor People’s Campaign in New York State is to make a donation at nysppc.org/donate. You can also help spread the word about the Campaign and raise resources at the same time by hosting a Virtual House Party. Click here for a toolkit and email Rev. Beth DuBois at svpcpastor@gmail.com to get started.
Learn more about the Legislative and Policy Priorities of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.
Follow the New York State Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival on Twitter | Instagram | Facebook.

Forging an Earth Ethic in a Time of Crisis
2020-07-09 19:00 - 20:30 UTC
Forging an Earth Ethic in a Time of Crisis

Karenna Gore
Director, Center for Earth Ethics Union Theological Seminary
Forging an Earth Ethic in a Time of Crisis
Hosted by Charlemont Forum of the Charlemont Federated Church – Affiliated with the United Church of Christ
Watch the Complete Video HERE
“The coronavirus pandemic has revealed injustices in the fabric of our society and demonstrated the strong relationship between science and ethics and the potential for systemic change. As we meet the challenge of this pandemic, we must also reckon with the looming climate crisis and forge a new earth ethic together.”

The themes of climate change and the corona virus will merge in the Charlemont Forum’s second summer program event with Karenna Gore speaking to the challenge of “Forging an Earth Ethic in a Time of Crisis”. The Forum will once again utilize the Zoom technology platform that has proved effective in reaching audience members in Western Massachusetts as well as nation wide. The program is scheduled for July 9 at 7 p.m.

Register for July 9 HERE (Required)

Climate Crisis Policy Follow Up
2020-07-15 12:00 - 13:30 UTC
Thank you for attending the July 1 webinar (video). We had over 300 join in and almost 200 wanted to help build a Climate Bill Package or Collect Votes, or both!
This is an exciting and big task that needs a lot of coordination. Here are some next steps:
1. Group Follow-up Call. JULY 15. Noon-1:30pm EST. Register on Zoom.
Agenda: Legislation (Fracking, Forest Protection) (20 min). Organizing Planning (70 mins). Q&A live.
2. Organizing Approach: We’ll always be open, inclusive and transparent.
3. Adopt-A-District: If you’d like to take the lead in a Congressional District to secure co-sponsors, please fill out this form.
4. Organizing Leads: If you’re interested in being on a core coordinating team, please reply to this email and let’s connect. We need a big team!
5. Process for Reviewing Bills: Discussion points: Collect bills. Study, summarize. GHG analysis. Determine Group Support. Here’s a summary of bills to study.
6. Bill Package Principles: Proposal for Discussion: Start with Project Drawdown Science. Collect Bills to achieve GHG reductions & fulfill policy suggestions from experts and civil society in the Climate Crisis Policy Digest. Embrace bills with sector coalition backing.
7. Groups Bill Endorsements: Here’s a list of Groups that have endorsed various Bills, gathered from the sponsors/lead groups. Going forward this will be an opt-in setup, respecting individual autonomy to support or not, any bill. Submit your Group’s Bill Endorsements here.
8. Vote Count: Here’s a list of Congress people and their co-sponsorship of various Bills. Some bills (GND Resolution, OFF Act) are listed to show historical support.

NYS Poor People's Campaign 101
2020-07-22 18:00 - 20:00 UTC
NYS Poor People’s Campaign 101
Wednesday, July 22 6-8pm
Online Zoom Workshop
On July 22, please join us for Poor People’s Campaign 101. We will discuss the history of the 1968 campaign, the relaunch in 2018 and how we got to where we are today. Most importantly, we will focus on the principles of the campaign and our goals, in particular why shifting the narrative by shifting the narrator is so central to what we do. We will also explore ways you can get involved. Whether you are new to the campaign or would just like a refresher, or perhaps you are wanting ideas on how you too can present the Poor People’s Campaign to your organization or community, we encourage you to register for this program and discussion. Spanish and ASL interpretation available.

July 22nd, 6pm-8pm
NYS Poor People’s Campaign 101 – Register Here
Online Workshop (Zoom)
Contact newyork@poorpeoplescampaign.org with any questions!
El 22 de julio, te invitamos a participar del evento educativo “Introducción a la Campaña de la Gente Pobre” (PPC 101). Presentaremos la historia de la Campaña de la Gente Pobre del 1968, además del reinicio de la Campaña en el 2018 y cómo hemos llegado a donde estamos. Conoceremos los principios de la Campaña y nuestros objetivos. En particular por qué cambiar la narrativa con cambiar los protagonismos, es fundamental para lo que hacemos. Compartiremos diferentes formas de involucrarse. Invitamos a personas que quieran conocer la Campaña por primera vez, además de personas que quieran profundizar su participación y personas interesadas en cómo presentar la Campaña en su organización o comunidad. Interpretación al español y lenguaje de señas (ASL).
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Mother Earth’s Pandemic: The Doctrine of Discovery
2020-08-06 08:00 - 2020-08-20 17:00 UTC
Dates: Thursday August 6, 13, and 20, 2020
Times: 6-9 PM EST each Thursday, followed by caucuses/small group discussions.
Location: Online
Sponsors: Indigenous Values Initiative and American Indian Law Alliance
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The “Doctrine of Discovery,” better described as the “Doctrine of Christian Discovery and World Domination,” established the worldview that not only brought devastation to the natural world, but also impaired the ability for human beings to live in proper relationship with the Earth. 15th century Papal Bulls, issued by the Vatican, justified the assault upon Indigenous Peoples as an artificial justification to take possession of their bodies, lands and resources in order to finance their New World Order. This worldview advanced the Age of Discovery as an extension of the Crusades, and was the conceptual framework behind the Protestant Reformation, the establishment of Nation States around the world, and later secularized to define colonialism, white supremacy and global capitalism.
Essentially, what defines Indigenous Peoples is their relationship with a living landscape that includes the soil, water, air, and all other non-human being co-inhabitants. This orientation to land is distinctly opposed to the European concept of owning land and the process of colonization. Indigenous scholars have discussed these two opposing orientations as being one of habitation and the other, of occupation. Although the violent seizure of Indigenous lands was initiated with “discovery,” corporations today, continue exploiting Indigenous Peoples and their land all over the world. The Doctrine of Discovery is the root of the problem, and the reason that it is discussed at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
This current pandemic and the escalating climate chaos clarify to everyone that there are consequences to the devastation humans have perpetrated upon the environment. As Oren Lyons has pointed out, Natural Law will reestablish balance, and these climate changes will not destroy the Earth, but will most likely destroy the human beings who abuse her. The earth will rebound in its own time. If we are to survive as a species, we must reorient to an Indigenous worldview acknowledging that we are first and foremost, co-inhabitants with this Earth—not in charge of it. These Indigenous values, along with the acceptance of traditional ecological knowledge, will transform future technological innovations possibly resulting in a viable future for our species. Religious concepts of imperial thinking urgently need to be re-imagined; messages from Indigenous Peoples need to be heeded; and environmental justice needs to be restored. Racist ideologies of conquest and domination are directly connected with domination of the Earth and other non-human beings.
This conference will connect the dots between our current pandemic, environmental devastation, the Doctrine of Discovery, and a way forward. Too often these are thought of as unrelated concepts, rather than being the core impediment in working towards social justice in an ecologically balanced Earth. Our speakers have been working in these areas for many decades. Participants will hear the wisdom from the traditions of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), as well as other Indigenous Peoples. Through virtual discussion groups, you will be able to interact on how best to implement these values of respect, thanksgiving, and peace into your lives.
Please join us in August 2020 for conversations about the Doctrine of Discovery, so we can begin the process of decolonization back to understanding our proper relationship to the natural world and peace.

Schedule
Thursday 6 August, 6-9 PM (EST)

6:00-6:10 Opening, Tadodaho Sid Hill
6:15-7:00 Orienting the conference panel:

Phil Arnold, Sandy Bigtree, Betty Lyons, Jake Edwards

7:00-8 PM Keynote: “The Haudenosaunee, United Nations and the Doctrine of Discovery” by Oren Lyons

8:00-9:00PM: Thematic Discussion groups/Caucuses

Thursday 13 August, 6-9 PM (EST)

6:00-7:00 PM Legal dimensions of the Doctrine of Discovery

Joe Heath, Dana Lloyd, Steve Newcomb, Makayla Loeb

7:00-8:00 PM Mother Earth’s Pandemic in other contexts

Eglute Trinkauskaite, Rob Ruehl, Sarah Nahar, Angela Mooney D’Arcy, Abel Gomez

8:00-9:00PM: Thematic Discussion groups/Caucuses

Thursday 20 August, 6-9 PM (EST)

6:00-7:00 International work and the Doctrine of Discovery

Betty Lyons, Evie Reyes-Aguirre, Tupac Enrique Acosta, Tina Ngata

7:00-8:00 Considerations for an Indigenous Future (panel-summation)

Jake Edwards, Beverly Jacobs, Tink Tinker

8:00-9:00 PM Thematic Discussion groups/Caucuses

Thematic Discussion Groups (caucuses)
After each panel there will be facilitated thematic discussion groups (caucus) for intentional thematic dialogue and conversations around the panels and possible next steps. Each caucus will have a facilitator and be capped at 25 members as a way of allowing for intentional conversations. Caucuses will be assigned on a first come first serve basis. We will try and accommodate your choices as best we are able but no guarantees. The Indigenous Peoples solidarity caucus is reserved as a space for Indigenous Nations and Peoples to talk. The regional action caucus groups we will be crafted to the best of our ability based on a critical mass of folks from a particular location.

Rural Environmental Justice & Sanitation in Lowndes, AL with Catherine Flowers
2020-09-08 19:00 - 20:00 UTC

Values & Worldviews: Ecological Civilization as Mutual Flourishing
2020-09-10 21:00 - 22:30 UTC
Webinar Series: Earth Charter and Ecological Civilization
A new kind of collaboration, toward a new kind of civilization, is needed if we are to shift humanity away from the current civilization that is indifferent to the needs of the most vulnerable and that predominantly has lifestyles and production patterns that destroys the life support systems that sustain life on Earth.
Two decades ago, after years of international collaboration and with input from visionaries around the world, a document known as the Earth Charter was drafted as a vision of hope and a call to action. The 16 principles of the Earth Charter provide a framework for the long-term well-being of people and the planet.
In 2012, China adopted Ecological Civilization in its National Constitution and mandated its incorporation into “all aspects of economic, political, cultural, and social progress.” This call for civilizational change raises awareness of the need for an alternative paradigm. But, what is “ecological civilization” and how can it be achieved?
Now, as we enter the third decade of the new millennium, there is urgency in generating an intercultural and intersectoral dialogue about the meaning, principles, metrics, vision, and values that ought to drive humanity towards ecological civilization.
Toward this end, a group of global partners are coming together to organize a series of webinars to exchange views, deepen discourse, and hopeful stimulate further collaboration. This series of four webinars, to take place between September and December, is being organized as a collaborative effort between the Earth Charter International, University for Peace, Pace Center for Green Sci-Teck and Development, the Institute of Ecological Civilization, China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), and the Center for Process Studies.
The following questions will be addressed:

What is an “Ecological Civilization?”
What values and worldviews are needed to ground a paradigm shift towards that direction?
Can the Earth Charter principles provide a framework for building an ecological civilization?
How to cultivate the consciousness needed, and how to turn this new consciousness into action?
What are the driving forces of the current civilization and what could be the drivers of “Ecological Civilization”?
What is the role of education, policies, and international collaboration to turn Ecological Civilization a reality?

Dates, Speakers and Time
September 10
Values & Worldviews: Ecological Civilization as Mutual Flourishing
Speakers: Mary Evelyn Tucker, Meijun Fan, and Karenna Gore
Moderator: Andrew Schwartz
Time: 7:00pm Costa Rica, 9:00pm ET, 9:00am Beijing of 11 September
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Voting is Power Unleashed: Moral Monday Mass Assembly
2020-09-14 19:00 - 21:00 UTC
On September 14 at 7 PM ET, the Poor People’s Campaign will hold a mass digital assembly and teach-in: “Voting is Power Unleashed: Moral Monday Mass Assembly”. This online program will bring together thousands of poor and low-income people, community and faith organizations, and more as we plan to educate and empower ourselves on voter engagement, registration, and protection ahead of this consequential election season.

The program will be anchored by two prominent legal organizations, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Forward Justice, which will lead a massive and unique teach-in on voter participation and protection. We will also hear from poor and low-income folks who have experienced voter suppression as well as notable leaders, artists, activists, and the co-chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign.
Use this link to join as a co-sponsor. Once you sign-up, you can use this digital toolkit to spread the word far and wide.
As we show in a new report, poor and low-income people are a key section of the electorate, but their issues are rarely part of the political narrative. There are over a dozen states where just a small increase in turnout by poor and low-income voters in the 2016 presidential election and in 2018 midterms could have met or exceeded the margin of victory. Poor and low-income people are no longer waiting to be included in the national political narrative.
That is why September 14 is not a one-off event, but a launching pad for a national organizing campaign between now and November: We Must Do M.O.R.E. (Mobilizing, Organizing, Registering, and Educating). As a part of the M.O.R.E Campaign, we are encouraging at least 1000 faith and community organizations to sign-on to the Prophetic Pledge to turn-out 1000 people to the polls. And thousands more are signing-up as MORE Organizers to do outreach in their communities. We’d be thrilled to count you and your people in the numbers.
Forward Together!
Rev. Kazimir Brown & Dr. Adam Barnes
PPC Faith Partners Team

Environmental Justice for All Act - Online Tour
2020-09-15 13:00 - 14:30 UTC
Environmental Justice for All Act — Improving Lives of Marginalized Communities
Facebook Live Online Tour – Next Stop: Tuesday, Sept. 15 from Los Angeles 1:00 – 2:30 pm ET
Sponsored by Rep. Raul Grijlav (D-AZ) House Natural Resources Committee Chair Rep. Raul Grijalva is leading forums on Facebook Live to promote the “Environmental Justice for All Act,” which he and Rep. A. Donald McEachin (D-VA.) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) introduced. See fact sheet.
Grijalva and Rep. McEachin will discuss the impacts that decades of neglect have had on Cancer Alley and how the Environmental Justice for All Act would give community members long-sought legal powers to protect themselves from polluter abuses. The bill was written after a collaborative process with impacted communities lasting more than a year, and has been praised as a new model for preparing legislation.
Among other measures, the bill would:

Amend the Civil Rights Act to allow private citizens and organizations that experience discrimination (based on race or national origin) to seek legal remedies when a program, policy, or practice causes a disparate impact;
Provide $75 million annually for research and program development grants to reduce health disparities and improve public health in disadvantaged communities;
Levy new fees on oil, gas, and coal companies to create a Federal Energy Transition Economic Development Assistance Fund, which would support workers and communities transitioning away from greenhouse gas-dependent jobs; and
Require federal agencies to consider health effects that might accumulate over time when making permitting decisions under the federal Clean Air and Clean Water acts.

Event details and links will be made available on Rep. Grijalva’s website HERE.

Bloomberg Green Festival Climate Activism Panel
2020-09-18 10:00 - 11:30 UTC
Climate Activism
Friday, September 18, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EDT

10:00 AM – The Green Vote

Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., President & Founder, Hip Hop Caucus
Moderator: Jillian Goodman, Reporter, Bloomberg Green

10:25 AM – Winning the New Green Deal

Varshini Prakash, Co-Founder & Executive Director, The Sunrise Movement
Moderator: Akshat Rathi, Reporter, Bloomberg Green

10:50 AM – Climate Justice

Catherine Coleman Flowers, Founder, Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice
Mustafa Santiago Ali, Vice President of Environmental Justice, Climate, and Community Revitalization, The National Wildlife Federation
Moderator: Jillian Goodman, Reporter, Bloomberg Green

Ecology And Ecumenicity: Facing Division And Imagining Reconciliation In The Care Of Our Common Home
2020-09-18 13:00 - 15:00 UTC
An online colloquium with ecologically-attentive theologians, ethicists, and community leaders from an array of Christian traditions. Organized with the Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute
Free and open to the public. Register now.
The ecological crisis is, no less, an ecumenical crisis and an ecumenical opportunity. There can be no degradation nor restoration of the environment, on any scale from local to global, that does not also present a challenge of communication with and commitment to one another. The “home” (oikos) we share—however divided and acrimonious it may be—is and must be a home to all. Yet our ecological vision and efforts are often themselves divisive or inattentive to divisions that shape our capacities for response.
This roundtable will take up the urgent contemporary questions rising from the entanglement between social division (religious, political, ethnic, economic, and so forth) and ecological degradation. For instance:

How are we best to understand the causes and ethical entailments of our present ecological challenges through the resources offered by our (different and often disagreeing) traditions?
What roles are played by ecological precarity in the divisions (cultural, ethical, political, theological) between and within Christian communities?
How should religious communities (and conversations between communities) contribute to society’s responses to these challenges—whether at the level of a public vision of ecological integrity, or at the level of concrete challenges like food security, environmental justice, and the plight of climate refugees?
What ecumenical resources exist for engagement between religious communities with apparently incompatible assessments of the present ecological situation?

This special program has been generously co-sponsored and co-organized by the Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute, Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary; the Church World Service; the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University; and the Zohrab Information Center.

Panelists
The Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis:
Fr. Chryssavgis, Archdeacon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, was born in Australia, studied theology in Athens, and completed his doctorate in Oxford. He taught theology in Sydney and Boston, and currently serves as theological advisor to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, “the green patriarch.” His latest book is Creation as Sacrament: Reflections on Ecology and Spirituality (Bloomsbury, 2019). He lives in Maine.

The Very Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas:
was named Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Theology at Union in September 2017. She was named the Bill and Judith Moyers Chair in Theology in November 2019. She also serves as the Canon Theologian at the Washington National Cathedral and Theologian in Residence at Trinity Church Wall Street. Ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1983, Dean Douglas holds a master’s degree in theology and a Ph.D. in systematic theology from Union. Dean Douglas is the author of many articles and five books, including Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective and Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God. Her academic work has focused on womanist theology, sexuality and the black church.

Dr. Dawn Nothwehr, OSF:
is a leading Catholic environmental ethicist, who in 2012 was acknowledged among the top twenty-five eco-theologians in The U.S. Heartland by The National Council of Churches of Christ Ecojustice Programs. Since 2015 she has served on the Encyclical Working Group of the Office of Human Dignity of the Archdiocese of Chicago, whose mission is the education and implementation of Laudato Si’. A Rochester, Minnesota Franciscan, Sr. Dawn joined the faculty of Catholic Theological Union (Chicago) in 1999. The mandate of the John Family Chair is to promote the Roman Catholic Consistent Ethic of Life, advanced by Cardinal Bernardin; thus, her research and teaching addresses a variety of issues. Her primary focus is environmental ethics through the lens of Franciscan theology, especially the effects of global climate change on poor people. Equal concerns include the religion/science dialogue, the ethics of power and racial justice, and fundamental moral theology.

Dr. Christopher Sheklian:
was appointed Director of the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center in September 2018. An anthropologist by training, completing his PhD at the University of Chicago, Dr. Sheklian specializes in the Anthropology of religion and secularism, studying the role of liturgy and law on the lives of religious minorities. He teaches Classical Armenian at St. Nersess Armenian Seminary, and he is an ordained deacon in the Armenian Apostolic Church in America.

Rev. Dr. David Vásquez-Levy:
serves as President of Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California –a progressive, multidenominational seminary and center for social justice that prepares theologically and spiritually rooted leaders to work for the well-being of all. A committed Lutheran pastor, a nationally recognized immigration leader, and a sought-after speaker, Vásquez-Levy leads at the intersection of faith, higher education, and social change. He is currently engaged in a series of public conversation with various State Attorneys across the country in an effort to reframe our national conversation about immigration.

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Karenna Gore joins McClendon Scholar-in-Residence Program
2020-09-19
McClendon Scholar-in-Residence Program

“Where Faith, Intellect and Justice Meet”

The McClendon Scholar Program brings scholars and thought leaders to Washington to share their learning, wisdom and insight about how the church can be more effective in its work for social justice. Established through the generosity of the late Rev. Dr. Jack E. McClendon, the program grows out of Dr. McClendon’s insight that justice, service and action can only be sustained when a community works to deepen its faith and grapples with the profound issues of the day.

Coming Programs
Due to the pandemic, all McClendon Scholar Programs for the next few months will be conducted online

James Forman, Jr, August 25 & Sept. 3: Mr. Forman, a professor at Yale Law School and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Locking Up Our Own, will lead a two-part webinar – “After the Protests: What Do We Do Now?” Both programs will focus on how to improve policing, reform the criminal justice system. Register for the Sept. 3 program here. You can also watch the August 25 program here.

Karenna Gore, Spiritual and Moral Response to the Climate Crisis, September 19, 10 am: In this online dialogue, we’ll talk about questions like: How do we understand the climate crisis from a spiritual and moral perspective? What personal and societal change is needed for a sustainable future? What specific things can I do to make a difference?

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March for Climate Justice Through Racial Justice
2020-09-20 13:00 - 15:00 UTC
On Sept. 20th, we are marching because we know that addressing the climate crisis effectively rests in our commitment to racial justice. This isn’t the first march calling for climate justice and racial justice, and it won’t be the last. The march will kick off and set a tone for Climate Week by prioritizing Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples, making clear the intersection between climate justice and racial justice.
More info about the march can be found here:
https://bit.ly/pcmny-920.
We cannot achieve climate justice without racial justice. Make plans now to march with us on Sept. 20!
If you can, please make a donation to help make it possible to provide face masks and hand sanitizer, to purchase materials needed for art builds, and to help cover the other costs related to this effort. Your contribution is appreciated! https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/nyc-climate-week-actions-commitment-to-racial-justice
At this event, *masks will be required, and social distancing will be encouraged.* Thank you.
Co-sponsors (as of 9/9):
Peace Action of Staten Island
350Brooklyn
350NYC
Atlantic Climate Justice Alliance
Bronx Climate Justice North
Bronx Green Party
Brooklyn For Peace
Divest NY
Earth Day Initiative
Environmental Justice Initiative / NY En. Law & Justice Project
Extinction Rebellion
Extinction Rebellion NYC
Food & Water Action
Granny Peace Brigade, NYC
Green Party of Brooklyn
Indivisible Harlem
Indivisible Nation Bk
MADRE
National Lawyers Guild – Environmental Justice Committee
North American Climate, Conservation and Environment (NACCE)
North American Megadam Resistance Alliance
North Bronx Racial Justice
NY Buddhist Climate Action Network
NY Communities for Change
NYC War Resisters League
NYC World Can’t Wait
Peace Action New York State
Peoples Climate Movemen-NY
PSC, Environmental Justice Working Group
Queens Climate Project
Raging Grannies NYC
Rise and Resist
SEMILLA WARUNKWA & ProtectTheSacredNYC
Shut Down Indian Point Now
Sixth Street Community Center
St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church
Sustainable Staten Island
Take Down Columbus NYC
VOCAL-NY
WE ACT
World Can’t Wait
Zero Hour NYC

Good Trouble for a Healthy Planet - 2020 Faith-Based Organization Consultation on Climate Emergency
2020-09-24 10:00 - 13:00 UTC
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 to our second interfaith consultation entitled “Good Trouble for a Healthy Planet.” This 2020 virtual consultation will address the impact of human activity on the planet, the urgent need for action to obtain sustainable and resilient communities, and the development of recommendations for moving forward. Two keynote presentations and eight concurrent workshops will be supported with web-based materials and social media tools to equip participants. This watershed moment requires action by all, especially faith voices of insight and hope.
WHAT: “Good Trouble for a Healthy Planet” Webinar based Consultation
DATE & TIME: Thu. Sept. 24, 2020 from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. (EDT)
REGISTRATION: http://bit.ly/2020FBOclimateconsultation to be part of the Zoom event
DEADLINE: September 22, 2020
The Consultation will focus on eight areas.
• Envisioning a Sustainable and Just Economy for a Resilient World
• Taking Responsibility for the Climate
• Buen Vivir: Pathways to a Healthier Planet
• How to Activate More People of Faith to Action
• Solutions that Work: Adaptation and Mitigation
• Climate Migration (including displaced persons)
• Climate Grief
• Restoration and Nature Based Solutions
A description of each workshop can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/GoodTroubleWorkshopList .
Special thanks to @episcopalians for technically facilitating this virtual event.
In addition to @lutherans, the event planning team includes @actalliance @theanglicancommunion @USBahaiOPA @bkwsu @churchworldservice @blessedtomorrow @greenfaith @lutheranworld @maryknollogc @parliamentofreligions @mercysisters @episcopalian @WorldCouncilofChurches

Knowledge and Nourishment with Liz Theoharis and Serene Jones
2020-09-24 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
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 for a Moral Revival, and the Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary. She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church.
REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR
A live stream will also be available on Facebook and YouTube.
About Dr. Liz Theoharis
The Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis is the Director of the Kairos Center and a Founder and the Coordinator of the Poverty Initiative. She has spent the past two decades organizing amongst the poor in the United States, working with and advising grassroots organizations with significant victories including the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, the Vermont Workers Center, Domestic Workers United, the United Workers Association, the National Union of the Homeless and the Kensington Welfare Rights Union. She has led hundreds of trainings, Bible studies, and leadership development workshops; spoken at dozens of conferences and keynote presentations across the US and globally; and published several articles and book chapters sharing her vision that poverty can be ended and that the poor can be agents of social change. Liz received her BA in Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania; her M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary in 2004 where she was the first William Sloane Coffin Scholar; and her PhD from Union in New Testament and Christian Origins. She is the author of Always with Us?: What Jesus Really Said about the Poor (Eerdmans, 2017). Liz is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA).

Faith for Nature: Multi-Faith Action
2020-10-05 08:00 - 2020-10-08 17:00 UTC
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 and objectives of this conference will be in support of the fifth United Nations Environment Assembly to be held in February 2021 in Nairobi with the overall theme “ Strengthening Actions for Nature to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals”. The Faith for Nature Conference will have the following objectives and outcomes:

A) Identify the relevance and way forward in mobilizing values, ethics, spirituality and faith-based action to achieve the SDGs.

B) Empower faith-based organizations in taking action for the SDGs and to cooperate for sustainable and regenerative development, with a view to endorsing the establishment of a global Faith for Earth Coalition.

Learn More about the Faith for Nature initiative.
Organized and Hosted by:

UNEP FAITH FOR EARTH INITIATIVE
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF ICELAND
UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF ICELAND
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE OF ICELAND

The Climate Crisis and New York Faith Communities - The 38th Marshall Meyer Retreat for Social Justice
2020-10-08 09:00 - 15:30 UTC
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 development of human societies. This conference will catalyze much-needed action, by exploring the role of faith-based organizations in confronting the climate crisis.
Speakers will include:
Rev. Dr. Chloe Breyer, Executive Director, Interfaith Center of New York
Karenna Gore, Founder and Director, The Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary
Peggy Shepard, Co-Founder and Executive Director, WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Rick Chavolla, Board Chair, American Indian Community House
Gopal Patel, Director, The Bhumi Project
Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, Founder and CEO, Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action
Dr. Henry Goldschmidt, Director of Programs, Interfaith Center of New York
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Faith Rally: Election Day Home Stretch — A Digital Event
2020-10-14 13:00 - 14:30 UTC
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 about the climate crisis and the many interconnected issues of justice that we face today. Our three featured speakers will include:
-Rev. Gerald Durley, a veteran of the civil rights movement and the current Chair of the Board for Interfaith Power & Light
-Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., President of the Hip Hop Caucus which organizes the hip hop community for social and political change
-Karenna Gore, founder and director of the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary
This webinar is co-hosted by the Rev. Dr. Brooks Berndt of the United Church of Christ Environmental Justice Ministry and the Rev. Michael Malcom of Alabama Interfaith Power & Light and the People’s Justice Council.
Sign-up now to join the webinar!
Even if you can’t make its scheduled time, still sign-up, and we will send you a recording of it.

The Dalai Lama Global Vision Summit
2020-10-22 - 2020-10-27
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 face of tremendous adversity.
The Global Vision Summit will meet October 22 – 27. CEE Director, Karenna Gore is honored to participate on Day 6, Oct 27th.

Day 6 – Ethics for a New Millennium: Vision for a Better World

For many of us, the year 2020 has radically altered our ideas about what the future holds. A global pandemic, environmental destruction, threats to democracy, reckonings with racial inequality… a dizzying array of challenges confronts us. In all this, the Dalai Lama offers us an incredible example of how to flourish in enormous adversity, with tenacity, ethical conviction and courage. Learn how this perspective can help us rediscover a sense of purpose, community and hope.

Register for this Free Event

“To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.”

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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KNOWLEDGE AND NOURISHMENT: REFLECTING ON THE ELECTION
2020-11-04 11:00 - 11:50 UTC
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 following the election. President Jones will be joined by Executive Vice President Fred Davie, Dean Pamela Cooper-White, and EDS at Union Dean Kelly Brown Douglas.
Date: Wednesday, November 4
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
RSVP: Click Here
Webinar will also be available on Facebook and YouTube.
You are also welcome to worship with us during the noon Chapel service immediately following this webinar. It will be a time for us to continue to hold one another in love, whatever the election’s outcome may be.
