trees-list -- The Theological Roundtable on Ecological Ethics and Spirituality at the GTU
About trees-list	English (USA)
The Theological Roundtable on Ecological Ethics and Spirituality (TREES), a grassroots religious-based organization at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, seeks to raise awareness of the issues that surround the ecological demise of the earth. We focus on raising awareness at the Educational/Philosophical, Institutional/Physical- Structural, and the Communal/Bioregional levels. By raising environmental awareness, we hope to provide a catalyst for change towards a more sustainable way of life for all life on the planet. We actively promote the concept that the environment is not just an issue among issues, but the context for all issues. In a time when we are faced with mass ecological destruction, social injustice, environmental racism, and mass economic inequity, we as human beings cannot continue to promote systems, institutions, and ways of life that further these global ills. Thus, TREES promotes ecological and relational understandings of reality that are more in tune with findings in sciences like ecology, cosmology, evolution, and genetics. Likewise we promote understandings of reality that are informed by the ecological insights found in many of the worlds religions. Ongoing Activities: To serve as a source of environmental education within the GTU community. To support members of the GTU community in their personal and social actions toward a way of life that promotes ecological sustainability and socio-economic justice. To distribute materials to faith communities for study, religious education, and worship, that explore the connection between spirituality and ecology. To aid GTU schools in the physical greening of their buildings by helping them move toward using renewable resources of energy and energy efficiency, and by helping them move toward sustainable waste-management practices. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the trees-list Archives.
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