Annual Environment & Spirituality
2024 Resources & Recordings

Session 1: Embracing Earth, Embracing Self: EcoDarma and the Path to Liberation

Speaker: Lama Rod Owens

Be sure to sign up for his email list here. Stay tuned to his website here for upcoming offerings and click here for bookings and other requests.

Session 2: Spiritual Wisdom for Ecological Action

Speaker: Gopal D. Patel

View his TED Talk here.

Session 3: When All Feels Lost, Look Back: Spiritual Wayfinding in Times of Crisis

Speaker: Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner

View Rabbi Ora’s Website: Exploring Apocalypse

Here are the journal/reflection prompts Rabbi Ora shared during this session:

  • What is my family, culture, and/or faith tradition’s relationship to safety?

  • What is my family, culture, and/or faith tradition’s relationship to home?

  • What is my family, culture, and/or faith tradition’s relationship to vulnerability?

  • What is my family, culture, and/or faith tradition’s relationship to hope?

Session 4: From Colonization to Kinship: Paths to Truth, Healing, and Repair

Speaker: Hilary Giovale

Session 5: Sacred Earth: EcoWomanism's Invitation to Environmental and Social Justice

Speaker: Dr. Melanie L. Harris

  • Buy Dr. Harris’s Book: Ecowomanism: African American Women and Earth-Honoring Faiths

    1. From the Book and Her Talk: The 7 Step Process of the EcoWomanist Method:

    2. honoring womanist experience;

    3. reflecting on womanist experience;

    4. applying womanist intersectional analysis;

    5. critically examining African and African American environmental religion, history, and tradition;

    6. engaging transformation;

    7. sharing dialogue; and

    8. taking action for earth justice.

  • Learn about the 2 teachers Dr. Harris refrenced in her talk:

Bonus Session: Learn about $30k Grants Available for Tree Planting and Maintenance at Houses of Worship/ Organizations in IN, IL, and WI