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
This October, the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology will host two public conferences that invite reflection on the evolving relationship between humans and the Earth. Both gatherings honor three decades of scholarship and engagement in religion and ecology while also exploring new scientific and humanistic perspectives on the living world and the many forms of intelligence present throughout nature. Both conferences, hosted at Yale University, are free to attend and pre-registration is required. Join us on October 16th for “30 Years of Religion and Ecology” and October 17th for “Living Earth Community.”
We're very pleased to announce the launch of the Living Earth Community website, an ongoing knowledge commons for wondrous exploration of the biodiversity and intelligences woven throughout the natural world. This website gathers scientific, spiritual, humanistic, and legal resources that investigate the diverse ways Earth and its inhabitants express sentience, intelligence, and creativity.
The September 2025 issue (no. 9) of The New Ecozoic Reader is a special intergenerational retrospective on the field of religion and ecology. Edited by Sam C. King and Sam Mickey, with a foreword by Iyad Abumoghli of UNEP Faith for Earth Coalition, and with an Introduction by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim.
On July 14, the Forum launched a series of interviews with Yale alumni. “Reflections on Religion & Ecology: Yale Alumni Speak from the Field” explores the hearts and minds of those working at the intersection of spiritual leadership and environmental action.
From eco-theologians to climate protesters, from ecological chaplains to bird and water protectors—this conversation series highlights how alumni are forging unique vocational paths as advocates for our blue-green planetary home.
Their stories remind us that our ecological crisis is not only economic, political, or social—but also spiritual in nature. Explore how these leaders are responding to a time of climate crisis, mass extinction, and environmental injustice with bold, creative visions that inspire hope for a more just and flourishing future.
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