April 29, 2026
Online at 7pm EDT
With Simeiqi He, Andrew MacIver, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and Stephen Posner
This Forum marks the launch (and guided tour) of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology’s new Ecological Civilization online website—a curated platform designed to make a complex field more accessible for educators, students, researchers, funders, and practitioners working at the intersection of culture, ethics, and ecological change.
Featuring Yale Forum research scholars Simeiqi He and Andrew MacIver, the session will introduce the site’s purpose and architecture, highlight key resource pathways (articles, books, journals, multimedia, reports/statements, and related links), and offer a “how to use this” walkthrough tailored to different audiences—whether you’re looking for a rigorous entry point, a teaching-ready reading list, or a way to track the evolution of EcoCiv ideas across China and the West.
In conversation with Mary Evelyn Tucker, we’ll also explore what it means to build a living knowledge commons: how resources get curated, how the team is thinking about interpretive balance (policy, philosophy, religion, and practice), and how participants can help strengthen the platform over time—by sharing materials, suggesting gaps, and bringing forward new questions at the tradition–modernity interface.
This event is part of “Roots of Renewal: Ecological Civilization in China and the Confluence of Tradition and Modernity: A Garrison Institute Webinar Series on Ecological Civilization.”
Co-sponsored by the Pathways to Planetary Health initiative at the Garrison Institute and the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology Conservation in China for Ecological Civilization.