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 in 1998 by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim and has been based at Yale University since 2006. Please explore the About Us section for more information on the Mission, History, and Projects of the Forum.
Others have been critical to leading this work early on, especially the National Religious Partnership on the Environment, Green Faith, 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) has done tireless work led by Martin Palmer with the support of Prince Philip. The European Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment has made important contributions to advance scholarly research through conferences and publications.
FORE SPOTLIGHTS Video/Podcast Series
Spotlights ~ Ep. 29, Maria Jaoudi, California State University You can also access the SPOTLIGHTS series as audio podcasts by going here. Check back here each Monday for a new episode.
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Partner Organizations
UNEP: Faith for Earth Initiative
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Interfaith Rainforest Initiative
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Parliament of the World’s Religions Climate Action Task Force The Parliament of the World’s Religions, acting with the leadership of its Climate Action Task Force, seeks to encourage and enable collective and individual action to reduce and counter the adverse impacts of human-caused climate change. Read more. |
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Featured Projects
Please see our Laudato Si’ section for full information on the encyclical. Go here to read the full text of the document on the Vatican site. Please also see the Yale article on Pope Francis and the Encyclical and the full video of the Yale 2015 event: Pope Francis and the Environment: Why His New Climate Encyclical Matters. Laudato Si’ Week 2020 was celebrated May 16-24, 2020. There were many webinars for this event, including one by Mary Evelyn Tucker on the topic of “Eco-spirituality: Deepening our Communion with Creation.” The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development is happy to announce a Special Laudato Si’ Anniversary Year from May 24, 2020 – May 24, 2021. |
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