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Rev. Fletcher Harper: Executive Director, Greenfaith
Rev. Fletcher helped lead the faith-based fossil fuel divestment movement, supported the launch of the global Interfaith Rainforest Initiative, and co-founded Shine, a faith-philanthropy-NGO campaign to end energy poverty with renewable energy by 2030.
Rev. Fletcher Harper, an Episcopal priest, serves as the Executive Director of GreenFaith, an international interfaith environmental organization. He has developed a range of innovative programs to make GreenFaith a global leader in the religious-environmental movement.
He coordinated the 2015 OurVoices campaign, which mobilized religious support globally for COP 21, led organizing of faith communities for the People’s Climate Marches in NYC and Washington DC, helped lead the faith-based fossil fuel divestment movement, supported the launch of the global Interfaith Rainforest Initiative, and co-founded Shine, a faith-philanthropy-NGO campaign to end energy poverty with renewable energy by 2030.
He helps lead GreenFaith’s new local organizing initiative, creating multi-faith GreenFaith Circles in local communities globally. Rev. Fletcher was named an Ashoka Fellow in 2011 and is the author of GreenFaith: Mobilizing God’s People to Protect the Earth (Abingdon Press, March 2015).
Primary Sources & Speeches
- Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale. “About the Forum.” Yale University.
- Earth Charter Initiative. The Earth Charter.
- Interfaith Rainforest Initiative. “Steering Committee.”
- Parliament of the World’s Religions. Mary Evelyn Tucker – Climate Action Interview (video).
- Tucker, Mary Evelyn. “Connecting the Dots: A Great Awakening.” Parliament of the World’s Religions Blog.
- Tucker, Mary Evelyn and John Grim. Forum on Religion and Ecology: Biography. Yale University.
- FORUM2021: A Call to Urgent Action to Support Sustainable Food Systems
with Rev.Jim Antal and Mary Evelyn Tucker - Eco Justice For All: Women Interfaith Visionaries
with The Reverend Canon Sally Grover Bingham, Alison Van Dyk, and Mary Evelyn Tucker - Eco Justice For All: The Perspective of Religious Naturalism Dialogue
with Ursula Goodenough and Carol Wayne White. Moderated by Mary Evelyn Tucker. - Eco Justice For All: The State of the Earth
with Mary Evelyn Tucker, Imam Saffet Catovic, Dr. Tyrone Hayes, Rev. Susan Hendershot, and Dr. Charles McNeill