Both the religious community and the academic ethics community are initiating many exciting projects to address the challenges of climate change and bring attention to the problem among their constituencies. This page provides an interactive map of those efforts, including links to various webpages and documents emerging out of these two communities. We hope this map will continue to grow, and we welcome information about efforts not here included.
From the Religious Community…
Many American religious groups have already begun significant intitiatives to address the challenges of climate change. The growing field of World Religion and Ecology is beginning to collect the theoretical foundations of this work, and numerous resources within this area are available through the Harvard Foru
For a single listing of religious efforts on climate change in PDF form, please see this paper, commissioned by the Garrison Institute in 2007.
A sampling of current efforts and campaigns being taken on by the religious community are also available here, broken down by religious denomination into the following categories:
- Inter-Religious Efforts
- Jewish Efforts
- Christian Efforts
- Unitarian Universalist Efforts
- Baha’i Efforts
From the Academic Community…
Several initiatives within the academic community have begun to address climate change in terms of ethics. On this page, you will find liks to a variety of academic programs and initiatives that focus on the ethics of climate change. Also named are a few of the individual ethicists who have directly investigated this issue.
In the Press…
Many of the climate change intiatives being undertaken by religious groups and ethicists have been recently featured in the media. On this page, you will find links to several recent articles and news reports that have brought increasing public attention to these initiatives.
