The Temple of Understanding promotes the human right to water through collaborative efforts at the UN. We are a member of the Mining Working Group, and through them we work with the Blue Planet [...]
Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and [...]
In collaboration with the Mining Working Group and Franciscans International, the Temple of Understanding is honored to contribute a statement on the Human Right to Food for the thirty-first [...]
Panelists reflected from their diverse perspectives on specific strategies towards food sovereignty for all, as well as what sustains them in their work, both in literal food and in spirit. [...]
Many organizations at the UN are working towards food sovereignty or food justice. Our colleagues at the NGO Working Group on Food and Hunger at the United Nations maintain a list of the related [...]
Hindu Declaration on Climate Change, November 23th 2015 (www.bhumiproject.org)
Buddhist Climate Change Statement to World Leaders, October 29th 2015 (www.gbccc.org)
Statement of Faith and [...]
Pollution kills more than 1.7 million young children every year -- roughly one in four deaths of all children under five. This initiative by the UN Environment Assembly strives for a [...]
Pollution kills more than 1.7 million young children every year -- roughly one in four deaths of all children under five. This initiative by the UN Environment Assembly strives for a [...]
The Interfaith Consortium for Ecological Civilization (ICEC) is a consortium of religious and secular organizations dedicated to ecological civilization.The Interfaith Consortium for Ecological [...]
DirectGrace Records is an elegantly simple concept: a ruby stylus cuts a groove in a lacquer master record, and a vulnerable child’s life is saved. The gift, a grace note of the music; the [...]