This site is a portal to the emerging dialogue within religious and spiritual communities on ecological issues. This dialogue shows great promise for sustaining biological and cultural diversity. In varied ways religions have been containers of symbolic language evoking nature’s processes and revering nature’s rhythms. Now, we need to bring those insights to bear on supporting a vibrant Earth community.
Why religion and ecology?
For many years science, engineering, policy, and law alone were considered indispensable to solving environmental problems. We now have abundant knowledge from these disciplines about environmental issues, but still not sufficient will to change. Daily, local restorations are occurring but still we see widespread global ecological degradation. We sense that we are losing ground. Thus, there is a growing realization that religion, spirituality, ethics, and values can make important contributions to address complex environmental concerns.
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