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Excerpt from Lighten Up!, a film about The Regeneration Project’s work to energize faith groups in their care for the environment.

Desmond Tutu talks about climate change to the World Development Movement: take action now at http://www.wdm.org.uk/climate

Sally Bingham, President of The Regeneration Project in San Francisco, California, speaks about global warming as a preeminent moral issue, and the important role the multi-faith religious community can play in educating, inspiring and motivating the world toward positive change.

If we take spiritual responsibility for what is happening to the world, we incarnate the Divine into ourselves and into the world. It is not just physical responsibility, it is also spiritual. We bring the light of divine consciousness—which as human beings we carry—into ourselves and into creation. From the event ‘Spiritual Ecology’ with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, December 2011 at Mercy Center, Burlingame, California. More information can be found at: workingwithoneness.org/spiritual-ecology

During an event hosted by ATC in June 2007, the Dalai Lama spoke about the importance of Tibet’s environment

His Holiness the Dalai Lama talks about the importance of environmental awareness in this short clip from first session of the Mind and Life XXIII conference – “Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence”, held at His Holiness’s office in Dharamsala, India, on October 17, 2011. The entire first session can be seen at http://youtu.be/OjMWC1Bz2xA. The entire conference is available at http://dalaila.ma/nmeRpk. Produced by the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama (www.dalailama.com) and the Mind and Life Institute (www.mindandlife.org)

talks to Climate Change TV in Cancun, Mexico

Watch Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s call to action on climate change.

The Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development put on an Interfaith Environmental Forum in Jerusalem in July 2011. Dr. Michael Kagan, advisor to the Center and moderator of the panel, discusses the goal of the Forum. If you are interested in hearing more commentary on interfaith environmental work, check out our video on religious education in the era of climate change!  

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