Environment

On a frigid January afternoon, students, faculty, staff, and alumni from Harvard Divinity School and Harvard College stepped carefully around the ice and snow surrounding Walden Pond. Accompanied only by a phone camera and a spirit of open curiosity, they...

"As a Zen Buddhist, I regard these questions not simply as theoretical issues to be determined by doctrine but as lived inquiries illuminated through practice. I have long felt a profound kinship with plants, one that first called me to a decade-long...

Dan McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Senior Lecturer, details Boston’s history with climate activism, and how religion, ancestry, and spirituality tie in.

"When you look at the state of saline lakes around the world the percentage of what lakes have survived is zero, zero. So, we have a monumental task before us," said Terry Tempest Williams, HDS writer-in-residence.

Workshop leader, York, Maine, resident Madeline Bugeau-Heartt, a graduate student at the Harvard Divinity School, has a knack for asking questions that encourage people to reflect. She also has skills that foster people’s sharing of their insights with...

"What used to be considered a narrow lens environmental focus is now being seen as a broader lens, where all of our identities are being held. And therefore, it concerns all of us. I actually feel encouraged by religious engagement. Whether it's Muslim...

David Abram, Senior Visiting Scholar in Ecology and Natural Philosophy at the Center for the Study of World Religions, conjures the impossible movements of Alaskan salmon, sandhill cranes, and monarch butterflies on their annual migrations, marveling at...

Gosia Sklodowska, associate director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, modeled a skirt of plastic and bubble wrap during the "Marine Debris Fashion Show" at Harvard's 2023 Arts First Festival. Her outfit was created by HDS student Ellen...

“We don’t know how to get there, but we know to take the next step and the next step,” writer and activist Rebecca Solnit said during HDS's Climate Justice Week, quoting E.L. Doctorow’s description of writing as an apt analogy: “Writing is like driving at...

“I remember after a busy day of DivEx programming, I sat on the steps of Swartz Hall, feeling the sun on skin and just hearing this whisper from the Divine saying, ‘You belong here; here is a place that you will grow and get to know me better.’ And so I...