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Welcome to the new Yale Forum Blog!
We will be sharing a variety of original content including interviews, reviews, reports from the field, new and enhanced resources on the Forum website, content from our new video podcast series, FORE Spotlights, and much more.
Check back every Tuesday and Thursday for new content.
This week's episode of Spotlights is the second part of a two-part interview with Dekila Chungyalpa, Director of the Loka Initiative at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She discusses how the Loka Initiative supports faith-led environmental and climate efforts locally and around the world by helping build capacity of faith leaders and culture keepers of indigenous traditions, and by creating new opportunities for projects, partnerships, and public outreach. She also talks about the ...
Today, we wanted to highlight the launch of the Gonzaga Center for Climate, Society, and the Environment.
From the center website:
In response to the threat of global warming — and as an expression of our Catholic, Jesuit, humanistic mission — Gonzaga...
This week's episode of Spotlights is the first part of a two-part interview with Dekila Chungyalpa, Director of the Loka Initiative at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She discusses the trajectory of her work with religion and ecology, including her experience founding and directing Sacred Earth, an acclaimed faith-based conservation program at the World Wildlife Fund from 2009 to 2014. She also discuss her contributions to Khoryug, a Tibetan Buddhist eco-monastic association in...
This Saturday, April 10, at 4pm Eastern, there will be an online event to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of our Emmy Award winning film, Journey of the Universe. This webinar will describe the 10-year odyssey of creating Journey of the Universe and the 10 years of bringing it out into ever widening circles.
Schedule:
The Journey of Journey: Making the Film...
This week’s episode of Spotlights features Maria Jaoudi, PhD, artist, author, and Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies at California State University in Sacramento, California. She discusses her new book, Mindfulness as Sustainability: Lessons from the World’s Religions (SUNY Press, 2021). Drawing on specific teachings and stories from a variety of wisdom traditions, she talks about how mindfulness practice, applied both personally and politically, can help facilitate peaceful, just, and sustainable...
We've recently migrated the official Thomas Berry website to a new platform and begun enhancing the content on it even further. So, we thought we'd take the opportunity to introduce those of you who may not know about this additional website of ours to Thomas Berry and the Great Work.
The official Thomas Berry site contains a wealth of information and resources about Thomas' life, work, ideas, and legacy. In the Biography section, you'll find the full text of Thomas Berry: Reflections on His Life and Thought...
This week's episode of Spotlights features Paloma Pavel, Ph.D., President of Earth House Center and visiting faculty at the University of California, Davis, where she also serves on the Regional Advisory Council for the Center for Regional Change. She is also the co-founder of the Breakthrough Communities Project with Carl Anthony. She discusses some of the many ways that ecology, cosmology, spirituality, and social justice activism intersect throughout the storied trajectory of her life and work. Along with...
The Human Energy Project has recently launched an exciting new video series, The Story of the Noosphere, narrated by Brian Thomas Swimme. The noosphere is a term used by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to describe a “mindsphere” surrounding our planet. In these short 5-7 minute videos, they explore the eight core conditions that have given rise to the emergence of the noosphere across five major stages of human development (Paleolithic; Neolithic;...
This week’s episode of Spotlights features Carl Anthony, an architect, regional planner, and social and environmental justice activist. He discusses some of the many facets of his work, including a project of which he is the co-founder and co-director (with Dr. Paloma Pavel), Breakthrough Communities, dedicated to building multiracial leadership for sustainable communities in California & the nation. He also discusses his book, The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race, which is a...
This week, to celebrate the spring equinox, we’re pleased to announce the new Forum homepage, featuring our partner organizations.
In May 2020, we announced our partnership with UNEP: Faith for Earth, and we are now proud to also highlight the work of the Interfaith Rainforest Initiative; Parliament of the World’s Religions Climate Action Task Force; Greenfaith; Religions for Peace; and the Center...