Sign on to the Hudson River Project Compact Our Shared Nature
The Garrison Institute's environmental initiatives seek ways to reintegrate the power of values, religion, faith and contemplation into the environmental movement. Although the movement draws much of its power from science, law and policy, environmentalism at its core is about values. Its early thinkers, such as Aldo Leopold and Rachael Carson, recognized that science and values must work together.
Garrison Institute, in collaboration with others seeking fresh approaches, is exploring ways to go beyond adversarial, judgmental strategies and to root our environmental work in a heartfelt search for deeper understanding, shared values and respect for differences, and compassionate community. Contemplative practices can help practitioners to transcend narrow agendas, to see enemies as allies, and to appreciate the interdependence of separate lines of endeavor in creating an effective field.
Caring for Creation in the Hudson River Valley is bringing together the environmental and religious communities in the Hudson River Estuary System to strengthen and complement one another, to develop a statement of shared values and to co-create values-based projects to preserve and protect the region we all call home.
Nature, Values and Community brings together global leaders and thinkers to explore new methods and language for connecting values and environmental protection activism and to share demonstration projects with on-the-ground results.
Contact Patricia Ackerman for more information on our Initiative on Transformational Ecology.
Initiative on Transformational Ecology Leadership Council
Supporting Bold Leadership on Climate Change Host Committee
Read Daring to Dream: Religion and the Future of the Earth by Mary Evelyn Tucker (Garrison Institute Board member) and John Grim, published in Reflections (Yale Divinity School), Spring 2007.
Read How Green Was Our Valley: The Garrison Institute by Jonathan F.P. Rose (Garrison Institute Board chair), published in Reflections (Yale Divinity School), Spring 2007.