Insights

“Water is not a commodity. In some ways, it’s a covenant: it carries memories, it sustains life and it carries the sacred,” reflected Union Theological Seminary President Lisa Thompson while welcoming guests to a webinar on the status of clean water protection hosted by the Center for Earth Ethics on July 28, 2026.  Today, however, 80% of the country’s wetlands and millions of miles of creeks and streams are at

This past June, the Center for Earth Ethics hosted “Spirit of Place, Spirit of Earth: An Eco-Justice Training” at the Ashokan Center in New York’s Hudson Valley. More than 120 participants, speakers, facilitators and guests gathered for an immersive weekend of learning, reflection, conversation and time on the land. Together, we explored questions of ecological belonging: How do we recognize and honor our innate relationship with the Earth? What does

On May 28, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the state’s fiscal year 2027 budget into law. Just two days earlier, the state legislature approved major climate rollbacks in one of the ten bills that make up the budget. The passage of the Transportation, Economic Development and Environmental Conservation (TED) bill marked the end of a months-long fight between the Governor and the State Senate and Assembly. Coming nearly two