A public symposium on sustaining the future: "Common Ground: Science and Religion in Dialogue for a Sustainable Future." This program will bring together scholars, leaders, and activists from diverse fields and perspectives to describe and plot a path toward a sustainable and equitable future.
Keynote Address: Mary Evelyn Tucker, Co-director, Forum on Religion and Ecology, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and The Divinity School, Yale University.
Panel: Educating for Partnership, moderated by Robert E. Pollack, Professor of Biological Sciences, and Director, Center for the Study of Science and Religion at The Earth Institute, Columbia University.
Panelists:
- Joan Anderson, Office of Public Information, Soka Gakkai International
- Laurel Kearns, Associate Professor, Sociology of Religion and Environmental Studies, Drew Theological School and Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University
- James R. Mihelcic, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida
- Keynote Address: Peter Mann, Co-director, Global Movements Program, World Hunger Year.
Panel: Empowering Eco-Justice Advocacy through Best Practices, moderated by Lois Barber, Executive Director, EarthAction
Panelists:
- Fr. John S. Rausch, Director, Catholic Committee of Appalachia
- Pedro Sanchez, Director, Tropical Agriculture & The Rural Environment Program, and Senior Research Scholar, The Earth Institute, Columbia University; and Co-chair, United Nations Millennium Project Hunger Task Force
- Rabbi Lawrence Troster, Director, Fellowship Program, GreenFaith
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