Sustainability

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

Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies, and John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity David N. Hempton was the faculty speaker during the Multireligious Commencement Service on May 24, 2023...

Graduating MDiv candidate Aliyah Collins’s nonprofit aims to help HBCU students make spiritual connections with nature, and launch conversations about environmental equity.

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...

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit joins HDS Writer-in-Residence Terry Tempest Williams in a conversation on the power of storytelling as it relates to climate change. This event took place April 12, 2023, in Memorial Church at Harvard...

“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...

At the intersection of where new meets old, and style meets sustainability, you will find Harvard Divinity School’s recently renovated main campus building—Swartz Hall. The elegant addition bridges the space between the original, century-old chapel and...

“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...

"I have known Great Salt Lake in flood and now in drought, between her highest level, at 4,211.8 feet in 1987, and her lowest, at 4,188.5 feet in 2022. Maps and newspapers call her the Great Salt Lake, but to me, she’s Great Salt Lake," writes Terry...

During her senior year at Fisk University, a historically Black university in Nashville, Tennessee, Aliyah Collins, MDiv ’23, witnessed the aftermath of climate disaster firsthand. A storm in March 2020 brought a series of tornadoes to the Nashville area...