March 2021
Environmental Injustice: Reckoning with American Waste
Virginia Humanities: ADD TO CALENDAR Nonfiction writers Kerri Arsenault (Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains), Anna Clark (The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy), and Catherine Coleman Flowers (Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret) discuss their investigations into American environmental injustices, from sewage and sanitation management systems that reinforce systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudices, to Flint’s water crisis and other industrial impacts leading to contaminated waters, illness, and loss. As part of the all-virtual 2021 Virginia Festival of the Book,…
Find out more »April 2021
EDS at Union Community Read: Catherine Coleman Flowers’ WASTE
Each semester, Episcopal Divinity School at Union selects a theme and book to guide a semester-long discussion on justice issues critical for faith communities to address. This spring 2021, EDS at Union is joining with the Center for Earth Ethics and the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice to focus on the structural challenges facing communities living in poverty and to explore how economic, environmental, and racial issues exacerbate inequality in the United States. To frame this discussion, we have selected Waste: One…
Find out more »Faith Leaders Cohort at the Upcoming US Climate Reality Leadership Corps Training
The Center for Earth Ethics is kicking off Earth Day by co-hosting a Faith Leaders cohort at the upcoming Climate Reality Leadership Corps Training happening April 22 - May 2. We are teaming with The Climate Reality Project to create specific sessions that will help faith leaders from across traditions integrate climate activism into their work. THIS IS OUR MOMENT FOR CHANGE. YOU CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN. The Climate Reality Leadership Corps Virtual US Training will feature four days of…
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