About the Forum
The Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology is an international multireligious project contributing to a new academic field and an engaged moral force of religious environmentalism. With its conferences, publications, monthly newsletter, and website, it explores religious worldviews, texts, and ethics in order to contribute to environmental solutions along with science, policy, law, economics, and appropriate technology.
The Forum was founded at the United Nations in 1998 by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim and has been based at Yale University since 2006. In 2023, the Forum became affiliated with, and now operates under the auspices of, the Yale Center for Environmental Justice. Please explore the About Us section for more information on the Mission, History, and Projects of the Forum. Download our Forum flyer and our brochure of all Yale Forum projects.
Others have helped lead this work, such as the National Religious Partnership on the Environment, GreenFaith, Interfaith Power and Light, Earth Ministry, Faith in Place, and Blessed Tomorrow in the United States. In Britain, the Alliance of Religion and Conservation (ARC) was an early leader and the European Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment has advanced scholarly research.
New & Noteworthy
VIDEO
“The Role of Religion in Mediating Conflicts and Imagining Futures: The Cases of Climate Change and Equality for Women.” A plenary panel from the 2014 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in San Diego, California.
Carter led with comments on women’s issues, as A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power had just been published. This was followed by an interview by our own Mary Evelyn Tucker and Steven Kepnes of Colgate University. He addressed many issues, including climate change, energy concerns, China's approach to Ecological Civilization, nuclear issues, the Earth Charter, peace and humanitarian work, and much more.
JOURNAL
The November/December issue of the journal Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development features a beautiful career-spanning profile on our co-founder and director, Mary Evelyn Tucker.
You’ll find the introduction here and the full profile on Mary Evelyn here.
READ
Check out this article about our colleagues at the Thomas Berry Forum for Ecological Dialogue at Iona University! Brian Rowe of the the National Catholic Reporter shared how the life and legacy of Thomas Berry is still inspiring Hope today in the face of today’s global challenges.
VIDEO
This Earth Charter International webinar, featuring the Forum’s Mary Evelyn Tucker, asked: What does an Ecological Civilization look like? What are some good examples paving the way towards this vision and how can we scale up these efforts? What are some additional paths and driving forces to building these just, sustainable and peaceful societies?
FORE SPOTLIGHTS Video/Podcast Series
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Spotlights, 5.9, Reviewing The Serviceberry, by Robin Wall Kimmerer You can also access the SPOTLIGHTS series as audio podcasts by going here. Check back here every other Monday for a new episode.
Congratulations to FORE Spotlights for being named one of the 20 best podcasts of 2021 on environmental activism!
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The Forum has released a series of courses on Religion & Ecology through Yale University and the Coursera online learning platform. The courses are free to audit, available anywhere in the world, and can be pursued at your own pace. Join an online community of peers for further support and to deepen your engagement
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Rotating Header photos: Faith leaders process to the Ise shrine,©Alexander Mercer, courtesy of ARC; Newspaper Rock, Utah; Maukib procession Kano, Nigeria, ©Darul Qadiriyyah, Courtesy of ARC; Cambodian monks ordaining trees, ©Chantal Elkin, Courtesy of ARC