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United Religions Initiative’s Rev. Kazanjian to offer prayer at Interfaith Service
Global Interfaith Prayer Service for the Earth Oct 17, 2020 The Rev. Victor H. Kazanjian Jr. is the Executive Director of the United Religions Initiative, (URI) a global grassroots interfaith peacebuilding organization with global offices in 21 countries supporting...
GreenFaith’s Rev. Fletcher Harper to offer a prayer for the Earth at our Interfaith Service
Global Interfaith Prayer Service for the Earth Oct 17, 2020 Rev. Fletcher Harper, Episcopal priest and the Executive Director of GreenFaith, a global multi-faith climate and environmental justice network, will be offering a prayer at the Interfaith Service. An...
Director of Hazon, the Jewish lab for sustainability, Nigel Savage speaking at FORUM2020
Nigel Savage will be joining the panel "Intergenerational Wisdom and the Future of the Earth Community" at FORUM2020. In 2000 he founded Hazon, the Jewish lab for sustainability, with a wide range of programs focusing on turning Jewish life outwards to create a more...
Earth Guardians Youth Director Marlow Baines to be panelist at FORUM2020
Marlow Baines is Youth Director of Earth Guardians. Born in Seattle, WA and raised in the mountains of Evergreen, CO she has an intrinsic and deep love and appreciation for wild, open spaces and places. Marlow is a lead member of the Youth Council, has authored Earth...
Kehkashan Basu, Founder of Green Hope Foundation, to be speaking at FORUM2020
Kehkashan Basu will be taking part in the "Intergenerational Wisdom and the Future of the Earth Community" panel at FORUM2020 coming up in a few weeks on Oct 16. Iconic youth leader, global influencer, environmentalist, champion of children’s rights, peace and...
“We are a movement of unstoppable youth”, Zanagee Artis on Zero Hour
Zanagee Artis is a 20 year old from Clinton, Connecticut and a co-founder of the youth climate justice organization Zero Hour.The mission of Zero Hour is to center the voices of diverse youth in the conversation around climate and environmental justice. Zero Hour is a...
Heather McTeer Toney of Moms Clean Air Force to speak at FORUM2020
We are delighted to announce that Heather McTeer Toney will be joining the "Women in Leadership on the Environment" panel at the FORUM2020. Heather was the first African-American, first female and the youngest to serve as Mayor of Greenville, Mississippi from...
Audrey Kitagawa Chair of the Parliament of World’s Religions to be speaking at FORUM2020
Audrey E. Kitagawa, JD, is the Chair of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, President of the Light of Awareness International Spiritual Family, and the former Advisor to the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed...
Lyla June to speak on ecological healing at FORUM2020
Lyla June, Indigenous musician, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages, will be joining our "Women in Leadership on the Environment" Panel at FORUM2020 next month. June's dynamic, multi-genre presentation...
Religions for Peace Prof. Azza Karam to speak at FORUM2020
Prof. Dr. Azza Karam serves as the Secretary General of Religions for Peace – the largest multi-religious leadership platform with 90 national and 6 regional Interreligious Councils. We are proud to announce that Professor Karam will be joining our FORUM2020 panel...
World-renowned environmental thinker Dr. Vandana Shiva joins the FORUM2020
Dr. Vandana Shiva, world-renowned environmental thinker, activist, feminist, philosopher of science, writer and science policy advocate, founder of Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (India) and President of Navdanya International, will...
“Pesticides and climate change” to be addressed by UC Berkeley Professor, Tyrone B. Hayes
UC Berkeley Professor, Tyrone B. Hayes, will be contributing to our online FORUM2020 panel, "State of the Earth". For the last twenty years, the role of endocrine disrupting contaminants, particularly pesticides, has been a major focus of Hayes work. Hayes is...