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For more from ICSD conferences, please see this video on the Faith and Ecology Conference in Jerusalem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2dBheg8_jY&t=2s The Women Faith and Ecology Project in Jerusalem engages Christian, Muslim, and Jewish women in the Jerusalem area for inspiring seminars on faith and ecology. The most recent seminars in late 2015 and early 2016 focused on women’s leadership, ecology and faith and involved various lectures, workshops discussions, and an environmental outing to the Jordan River. They are being followed by a local environmental fair, highlighting ecological workwomen-planting and activism taking place throughout the greater Jerusalem area. The meetings were attended by women of the three faiths, with six Christian, Jewish and Muslim speakers. The meetings were attended by Jewish and Arab women from Jerusalem, as well as women native to Turkey, the U.S., Europe, and New Zealand. We had women from the Bedouin sector, East Jerusalem, Arab villages around Jerusalem, Arab…

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Prof. Pinchas Alpert, one of Israel’s leading climate scientists speaks about climate change in Israel and the Middle East. For more on climate change in the middle east, please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ItarwR153s&t=125s

For more commentary from the UNFCCC CCOP21, please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xEC82T66Kc&t=203s Author, activist, former NASA scientist and outspoken commentator on action required to decarbonise society, Dr. James Hansen speaks at the UNFCCC COP21 in Paris, in December 2015.

Dr. Maria Leppakari, director of The Swedish Theological Institute in Jerusalem, gives an interview on the responsibility of faith communities and institutions to protect the earth, our common home. For more from the summit, please see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifkkW6CY9dA

For more from the Religious Education in the Era of Climate Change Summit, please see this video of Dr. Michael Borchard’s commentary on renegotiating nature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiglgsAcc-4&t=131s Fr. Russ McDougall is a Roman Catholic Priest who has worked all over the world to strengthen interfaith work. He answers questions presented to him at the “Religious Education in the Era of Climate Change: A Summit of Conscience.”

For more from the Religious Education in the Era of Climate Change Summit, please see this video of Dr. Mary Evelyn Tucker’s inspiring commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifkkW6CY9dA Dr. Michael, director of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Jerusalem starts off the Religious Education in the Era of Climate Change Summit in collaboration with The Interfaith Centre for Sustainable Development.

For more from the Religious Education in the Era of Climate Change Summit, please see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxXXx-9sOGg&t=39s Connecting faith and ecology leads us to a stronger identity as a society and community. The Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development promotes these ideas and comes together with other organizations to create a strong united cause.

For more from ICSD poetry events, please see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjOd0P4le0I&t=44s “Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with care” The first ever interfaith eco slam held in Nachlaot Jerusalem. Poets both Muslim and Jewish, performed about the intersection between Religion and Ecology! The poetry was authentic and eco-friendly, the atmosphere electric.

Rabbi Yonatan Neril introduces the Faith and Ecology conference and the panel moderator Rabbi Michael Melchior. For more commentary from Rabbi Neril, please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgFGnciSeoU&t=18s