Yale Divinity Event Feb. 7, 2007, 4 PM

Scholars from the Yale Divinity School, Yale School of Forestry and the YaleInterdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, join together to discuss:

"Religious and Ethical Responses to Environmental Issues"

WEDNESDAY, February 7, 4:00 PM

Yale Divinity School Common Room

Light Refreshments to follow

As the issue of global climate change has drastically altered political, social and personal agendas around the world, creative ways of addressing this, and related environmental issues, have emerged. The four panelists - Professor Stephen Kellert (FES), Professor Willis Jenkins (YDS), Professor Mary Evelyn Tucker and Professor John Grim (Bioethicist in Residence at Yale),with moderator Professor Margaret Farley (YDS) - will discuss the ways in which religion, spirituality, and ethics have and will contribute to the environmentalmovement and the fostering of human-nature relationships.Come join us for an exciting and historic opportunity to explore therelationship between religion, ethics, and environmentalism, with five of Yale's most prominent voices on the topic.

We look forward to welcoming you,

Yale Earth Care Committee, YDS

Adam and Eve, Environmentalists

Adam and Eve were the original Tree Huggers according to John Hart, Professor of Christian Ethics at Boston University.

"There's a particular phrase in there which has not quite been accurately translated from the Hebrew for a number of years," Hart said. "But it says that the first humans are put in the garden, which represents Earth, to conserve and to serve it. If we think along those lines, to serve and conserve, I think we would have a sense of heightened responsibility towards the creation of which we are a part."

Hart made his remarks at a forum on Religion and the Environment held at a Roman Catholic Church in Eden Prarie, Minnesota and attended by approximately 1000 people from 90 area Roman Catholic Churches. The event included a number of speakers who outlined the problem of global warming.

Read the rest of the article, which also mentions other religious organizations such as our own affilate Interfaith Power and Light.

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