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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...
Dire message from the Amazon, Peru, from FORUM2020 keynote speaker, Eda Zavala Lopez
We are honored to announce Eda Zavala Lopez will be offering a keynote address from the Amazon, Peru at the FORUM2020. Lopez is a Peruvian shaman-curandera, sociologist and environmental-social activist working and living deep in the Amazon Rainforest in Peru. She is...
“Climate change a consequence of fundamental systems of oppression” says Youth Vs Apocalypse Cofounder, Isha Clarke
Isha Clarke, who is cofounder and activist with Youth Vs Apocalypse, and a recent high school graduate born, raised, and educated in Oakland, California, will be moderating the panel, "Intergenerational Wisdom and the Future of the Earth Community" this year at...
“Climate change is a moral issue” according to Rev. Hendershot
Not only does Rev. Susan Hendershot state that climate change is a moral issue, she sees that it is disproportionately impacting those who are most vulnerable in our world. Hendershot has served as President of Interfaith Power & Light since 2018 and will be...
Imam Saffet Catovic to represent Islamic Society of North America Green Initiatives at FORUM2020
Imam Saffet Abid Catovic, American Muslim of Bosnian-Anglo descent, will be a contributing to our panel, “State of the Earth” at FORUM2020 this year and also contributing prayers for the Earth the next day at our 60th Anniversary Interfaith Prayer Service. Imam...
Chief Oren Lyons to offer keynote at FORUM2020
Distinguished Native American leader, Chief Oren Lyons, will be offering the first keynote speech at our online FORUM2020 this year. Chief Oren Lyons, is Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan and Member Chief of the Onondaga Council of Chiefs and the Grand Council of the...
Chief Arvol Looking Horse to open FORUM2020
We are very honored to announce that Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle for the Great Sioux Nation, will be offering opening prayers for our online FORUM2020 this year as well as giving a keynote address....
Meet our 2020 summer interns!
Meet our 2020 summer interns! We were thrilled to connect with interns from around the world this summer via Zoom! For the summer of 2020, we ran a virtual internship program due to COVID-19 and had three main goals – making connections, promoting awareness and education, and coming up with ways that we can advocate for important causes we are passionate about both individually and as a group. Click here for more information about our 2020 program!
HLPF 2020: Ending Hunger and Achieving Food Security by Grove Harris
Ending Hunger and Achieving Food Security Intervention delivered Tuesday, July 7th, 2020, 3-4 pm Greetings. My name is Grove Harris, of the Temple of Understanding, and I am speaking on behalf of the Women’s Major Group. The COVID-19 crisis has already created a major...
An Interfaith Vision of Hope: By Alison Van Dyk, Executive Director
More powerful than all the armies on earth is an idea whose time has come. And the time has come for the Interfaith Community to lead a spiritual transformation in the auspicious year of 2020 to deal with a changing world. While we have been overwhelmed by thousands...