HR!Day153 - The Vanishing Garden: Religion and the Fate of the Earth
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All world religions have a reverence for the earth; most believe that God or divine beings made the earth as a habitation for humanity and all living creatures and organisms and that all peoples have a responsibility for nurturing and preserving the earth, its human and animal creatures and its natural resources. This is the first of several Humanity Rising sessions on Climate Change and earth stewardship from the perspectives of the world’s religions. The first session, featuring activists from Christianity, Judaism, and Buddhism, focus on preserving/restoring the earth to a healthy state, and religious/spiritual strategies for addressing the current ecological crisis. Future panels will feature perspectives from other faith traditions.
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Humanity Rising Day 153 Friday December 4, 2020:
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| Co-Moderators | Org | URL | Other Links | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Garrison | President of Ubiquity University and Founder Humanity Rising | Humanity Rising, Ubiquity University | UbiVerse Social Platform | Humanity Rising: A Global Solutions Summit. “Transforming conversations that matter into action that makes a difference." |
| Sabinije von Gaffke | Founder of Impactfullness Ventures | . | . | Entrepreneur and Change Leader |
| Convener | Org | URL | Other Links | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Rees, Ph.D. | . | . | . | Visiting Professor and Director of Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Co-founder and Vice-President of the Bountiful Children’s Foundation, a humanitarian organization that addresses children’s malnutrition in the developing world. |
All world religions have a reverence for the earth; most believe that God or divine beings made the earth as a habitation for humanity and all living creatures and organisms and that all peoples have a responsibility for nurturing and preserving the earth, its human and animal creatures and its natural resources. This is the first of several Humanity Rising sessions on Climate Change and earth stewardship from the perspectives of the world’s religions. The first session, featuring activists from Christianity, Judaism, and Buddhism, focus on preserving/restoring the earth to a healthy state, and religious/spiritual strategies for addressing the current ecological crisis. Future panels will feature perspectives from other faith traditions.
Convener:
- Robert Rees, Ph.D. is Visiting Professor and Director of Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He has taught at UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, and Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania where he was a Fulbright Professor of American Studies (1995-96). A poet and scholar, Rees has published widely on religion as well as on politics, culture, literature, education, and the arts. He has long been involved in interfaith work, including in relation to climate issues. He is the co-founder and current Vice-President of the Bountiful children’s Foundation, a humanitarian organization that addresses children’s malnutrition in the developing world.
Presenters:
- The Reverend Canon Sally Grover Bingham, an Episcopal priest and Canon for the Environment in the Diocese of California, was one of the first faith leaders to fully recognize climate change as a moral issue. She is Founder and President Emeritus of The Regeneration Project and its Interfaith Power & Light campaign, which currently has 22,000 congregation members in forty states. Rev. Bingham recently retired from the national board of the Environmental Defense Fund. She is on the board of Pacific Forest Trust and on the advisory board of both the Union of Concerned Scientists and Climate One. She has received many awards including in 2012, the Rachel Carson Women in Conservation Award from the Audubon Society, the Life Time Achievement Award from the Festival of Faiths, and the Bishop of California Green Cross Award. Rev. Bingham is the lead author of Love God Heal Earth, a collection of 21 essays on environmental stewardship by religious leaders, published by St. Lynn’s Press.
- Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb serves Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation in Bethesda Maryland, an EPA Energy Star Congregation known for its many sustainability initiatives and justice efforts. A past chairperson of Interfaith Power and Light for MD, DC, and northern VA, he is now a board member of national IPL (founded by fellow panelist Rev. Sally!). He also chairs the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, which joins Catholic, Protestant, and Evangelical green initiatives under the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, on whose board Fred also serves. A longtime interfaith educator for climate, social, and racial justice, Fred is married to Minna Scherlinder Morse; their two children are a key impetus for their activism.
- Sensei Kritee Kanko, PhD, is a climate scientist, educator-activist, grief-ritual leader and Buddhist Zen priest. She is a Sensei in the Rinzai Zen lineage of Cold Mountain, a founding dharma teacher of Boundless in Motion and a co-founder of Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center. She has served as an Ecodharma teacher for Earth-Love-Go (Lama Foundation), One Earth Sangha, Impermanent Sangha and Shogaku Zen Institute. As a senior scientist in the Global Climate Program at Environmental Defense Fund she helps implement climate-smart farming at scale in India. Kritee believes in identifying and releasing our personal and ecological grief and bringing our gifts into strategic collective actions for societal healing. Her synthesis of myths surrounding climate crisis, racism, ethics and action is available as a Youtube video. Her other interviews and articles can be accessed here.
Co-Moderators:
- Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University, with Sabinije von Gaffke, Entrepreneur, Change Leader, Founder, Impactfullness Ventures
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| Presenter | Org | URL | Other Links | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reverend Canon Sally Grover Bingham | . | . | . | The Reverend Canon Sally Grover Bingham, an Episcopal priest and Canon for the Environment in the Diocese of California, was one of the first faith leaders to fully recognize climate change as a moral issue. She is Founder and President Emeritus of The Regeneration Project and its Interfaith Power & Light campaign, which currently has 22,000 congregation members in forty states. Rev. Bingham recently retired from the national board of the Environmental Defense Fund. She is on the board of Pacific Forest Trust and on the advisory board of both the Union of Concerned Scientists and Climate One. She has received many awards including in 2012, the Rachel Carson Women in Conservation Award from the Audubon Society, the Life Time Achievement Award from the Festival of Faiths, and the Bishop of California Green Cross Award. Rev. Bingham is the lead author of Love God Heal Earth, a collection of 21 essays on environmental stewardship by religious leaders, published by St. Lynn’s Press. |
| Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb | . | . | . | Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb serves Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation in Bethesda Maryland, an EPA Energy Star Congregation known for its many sustainability initiatives and justice efforts. A past chairperson of Interfaith Power and Light for MD, DC, and northern VA, he is now a board member of national IPL (founded by fellow panelist Rev. Sally!). He also chairs the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, which joins Catholic, Protestant, and Evangelical green initiatives under the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, on whose board Fred also serves. A longtime interfaith educator for climate, social, and racial justice, Fred is married to Minna Scherlinder Morse; their two children are a key impetus for their activism. |
| Sensei Kritee Kanko, PhD | . | http://boundlessinmotion.org/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGmpHfTETTE | Sensei Kritee Kanko, PhD, is a climate scientist, educator-activist, grief-ritual leader and Buddhist Zen priest. She is a Sensei in the Rinzai Zen lineage of Cold Mountain, a founding dharma teacher of Boundless in Motion and a co-founder of Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center. She has served as an Ecodharma teacher for Earth-Love-Go (Lama Foundation), One Earth Sangha, Impermanent Sangha and Shogaku Zen Institute. As a senior scientist in the Global Climate Program at Environmental Defense Fund she helps implement climate-smart farming at scale in India. Kritee believes in identifying and releasing our personal and ecological grief and bringing our gifts into strategic collective actions for societal healing. Her synthesis of myths surrounding climate crisis, racism, ethics and action is available as a Youtube video. Her other interviews and articles can be accessed here. |
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