Earth Institute Searches for Science-Religion Common Ground

I am participating in Columbia University Earth Institute’s Fetzer Institute symposium Common Ground: Science and Religion in Dialogue for a Sustainable Future . Yesterday, Earth Institute Director Jeff Sachs opened up the conference with the observation that human activity is having a greater impact on the Earth’s environment than ever before, becoming a factor shaping the Earth’s natural cycles and systems. Sachs calls this new age the Anthropocene; here is Sachs talking about this idea o

I am participating in Columbia University Earth Institute’s Fetzer Institute symposium Common Ground: Science and Religion in Dialogue for a Sustainable Future . Yesterday, Earth Institute Director Jeff Sachs opened up the conference with the observation that human activity is having a greater impact on the Earth’s environment than ever before, becoming [...]