Overview
What impact has values-based mobilization around the issue of climate change had on policy-makers and religious communities in the US? Should science play a role in this effort? Is greater scientific expertise and literacy needed within the religious community itself? If there is a need for greater scientific expertise and literacy, how this can be met through practices that respect the distinct dialects spoken in the two communities? How can the issue of climate change play a role in forging common ground between religion and science and move the issue forward in the process? Project Participants are addressing these and other issues to help generate strategies designed to support values-based mobilization around the climate change issue.
Both the religious community and the academic community are initiating many exciting projects to address the challenges of climate change and bring attention to the problem among their constituencies. This page provides an interactive map of those efforts, including links to various webpages and documents emerging out of these two communities. We hope this map will continue to grow, and we welcome information about efforts not here included.
Participants
Carlos Brandao
Clare Butterfield, Director, Faith in Place
Richard Cizik, Vice President, Government Affairs, National Association of Evangelicals
Strachan Donnelley, President and Founder, Humans and Nature
Barrett Duke, Vice President for Public Policy and Research, Southern Baptist Convention
Robert Edgar, General Secretary, National Council of Churches
Bethany Fitzgerald, Campus Minister, St. Thomas More Newman Center
William French, Associate Professor of Theology, Loyola University of Chicago
Paul Gorman, Executive Director, National Religious Partnership for the Environment
Walt Grazer, Manager, Environmental Justice Program, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
John Grim, Co-Founder & Co-Director, Forum on Religion & Ecology
Martin Kaplan, Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP
Stephen Kellert, Tweedy/Ordway Professor of Social Ecology, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Joan Kirby, UN Representative, Temple of Understanding
Evonne Marzouk, Executive Director, Canfei Nesharim
Sallie McFague, Professor, Vancouver School of Theology
Michael Northcott, Reader in Christian Ethics, Edinburgh University
Jonathan Rose, President, Rose Companies
Adam Stern, Executive Director, Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life
Lawrence Troster, Rabbinic Scholar, GreenFaith
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Co-Founder and Co-Director, Fo
Actions
- Recognize climate change as an urgent and moral issue
- Establish or expand religious coalitions on the environment
- Communicate the scale of the problem
- Communicate the urgency of the issue to political leadership and broader public
- Create new opportunities for dialogue between business and religious leaders
- Establish religious outreach efforts on climate change
- Develop and expand the field of Religion and Ecology
- Encourage religious institutions to incorporate climate change in their curricula
- Create partnerships between religious, scientific and environmental representatives
1 comment
March 13th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Richard Jordan
Whenever we think of the values that faith-based traditions are able to articulate, we are not dealing with alternative forms of value-based initiatives, such as the Intl. Olympic Movement. The Olympic Movement embodies many values that are very useful in our work, and I think that I would like to contribute to this subject on a regular basis.