FORUM2020 on the Climate Emergency and Interfaith Prayer Service Oct16 /17

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Oct 16 10am-1pm EDT

FORUM2020: Science, Spirituality, the Climate Emergency and our Future

Oct 17 10am-11:30am EDT

Global Interfaith Prayer Service for the Earth

Over forty international speakers offering wisdom and perspectives through keynote addresses, diverse panels, prayers & sacred music.

World religious and spiritual visionaries, Indigenous leaders, scientists, and youth environmental activists come together to address the urgency of the climate crisis with strategies for inspired collective action.

FORUM2020 & the Global Interfaith Prayer Service for the Earth are proudly being held on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Temple of Understanding.

FORUM2020 is proudly presented by the Temple of Understanding in collaboration with Marble Collegiate Church, New York City.

Please see website for full program and details.

www.TempleofUnderstanding.org

Please join us for this extraordinary gathering of wisdom and prayer.

Learn more about the program details, watch interviews with our speakers

on our website. www.TempleofUnderstanding.org

More About FORUM2020

Keynote speakers on the Climate Emergency

Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Eda Zavala Lopez, Chief Oren Lyons, Grandmother Mona Polacca, Dr. Vandana Shiva, and His Holiness Gyalwa Trungrum Rinpoche.

FORUM2020 presents three short panels at 30 minutes each; expect fast conversations, stating of climate emergency dire facts and hopeful resolutions and plans of action.

State of the Earth Panel

A diverse group of prominent scientists, academics and religious/ interfaith leaders will discuss our current state of affairs regarding the climate from different perspectives.

Dr. Mary Evelyn Tucker, Coordinator, Forum on Religion & Ecology, Yale University.

Imam Saffet Catovic, Founder, Green Muslims of New Jersey, Founding Board Member of the Global Muslim Climate Network.

Dr. Tyrone Hayes, Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.

Rev. Susan Hendershot, President, Interfaith Power & Light

Dr. Charles McNeill, UN Environment Programme, Interfaith Rainforest Initiative.

Women in Leadership on the Environment Panel

Our second panel addresses the topic with a dynamic group of community, grassroots, former government, and major global organization leaders.

Dr. Azza Karam, Secretary General, Religions for Peace.

Dr. Erin Lothes Biviano, Program Director, Associate Professor, College of Saint Elizabeth.

Lyla June, Diné & Tsétsêhéstâhese Nations; Environmental Anthropology, Stanford University; Co-founder, Taos Peace and Reconciliation Council.

Audrey Kitagawa, Chair, Parliament of the World Religions.

Rabbi Ellen Bernstein, Shomrei Adamah, Keepers of the Earth, National Jewish Environmental Organization

Heather McTeer Toney, Former Regional Administrator EPA Southeast Region under President Obama; National Field Director, Moms Clean Air Force.

Intergenerational Wisdom & Our Future Panel

With a powerful group of mostly younger generation organizers of national and international organizations, we learn about what these popular action-based programs are implementing now.

Isha Clarke, Co-founder & Youth Organizer, Youth Vs Apocalypse

Zanagee Artis, Cofounder, Zero Hour

Kehkashan Basu, Youth Ambassador World Future Council, Founder & President Green Hope Foundation

Marlow Baines, Youth Director, Earth Guardians

Nigel Savage, Founder, Hazon, Jewish Lab for Sustainability.

Global Interfaith Prayer Service for the Earth

Oct 17, 2020 10am-11:30am EDT

Join us online for a morning of prayers, affirmations and contemplations

offered by Indigenous and world religious leaders

and sacred music by renown international artists including,

Yungchen Lhamo (photo), Samir Chatterjee and Steve Gorn.

Prayers contributions will be offered by Dr. Michael Bos, Imam Saffet Catovic, Rev. Fletcher Harper, Lyla June, Rev. Victor Kazanjian, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Eda Zavala Lopez, Chief Oren Lyons, Dr. Meher Master-Moos, Vivek Muni, Grandmother Mona Polacca, Chief Redhawk, Rabbi David Rosen, Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, Bhai Sahib Bhai Mohinder Singh, Dr.Jyotsna Singh, Rev. John H. Vaughn, Venerable Dr. Yifa.