350.Org Int'l Day of Climate Action: Mary Evelyn Tucker

Parliament of the World's Religions 2009
Melbourne, Australia

Featuring Mary Evelyn Tucker, Senior Lecturer in Religion and the Environment at Yale University. With her husband John Grim, she co-founded the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology [FORE]. Together, they also put into action the ten-conference series on World Religions and Ecology at Harvard's Center for the study of World Religions. Tucker has been a committee member of the Interfaith Partnership at the United Nations Environment Program [UNEP] since 1986 and is Vice President of the American Teilhard Association. She has written many books and most recently published Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase.

This year, on October 24, 2009, individuals in 181 countries hosted over 5200 events to mark the most widespread day of environment action in the history of the planet. The critical issue at this time is to pressure world leaders at the Copenhagen UN Climate Negotiations to take urgent action needed to reduce carbon emissions to the number 350—as in the number of parts per million—in order to flight climate change and protect all life on the planet. Join the movement to reach the 350 goal—the scale of the crisis facing humanity at this time is massive and requires the collective efforts of millions of people. On the weekend of December 12, 2009, actions will take place all over the globe—a "climate mobilization" from the local to the global level. Learn how to participate at www.350.org


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350.Org: http://www.350.org

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• ecology
• climate change
• Mary Evelyn Tucker
• global warming