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ECO JUSTICE FOR ALL

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About ECO JUSTICE FOR ALL

ECO JUSTICE FOR ALL interview series is an ongoing program produced by the Temple of Understanding, incorporating our outreach in the area of environmental awareness and advocacy. 

We present a diverse range of perspectives, from scientific to spiritual views, on the climate emergency and offer a variety of solutions that we can all do easily and effectively in our everyday lives. 

World religious and spiritual visionaries, Indigenous leaders, scientists and social scientists, environmental activists, artists, musicians and writers, youth and elders, local and global people, all come together to address the urgency of the climate crisis through this ongoing interview series. We promote the understanding and wisdom of these ChangeMakers, their insights into the state of our planet and their offerings of diverse strategies for inspired action. 

Here you will find short 3 minute clips by speakers from our annual conference dedicated to the discussion of the global climate emergency, Forum2020 & Forum2021, as well as people dedicated to the health and well being of our planet and all creation. 

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What can we do about the CLIMATE EMERGENCY?

Sharing Inspired Action

Got 3 minutes? 

Listen to some quick ideas from around the world from diverse perspectives about what you can do and what others are doing.


Got 15 minutes? 

Listen to our long play interviews where we go a bit deeper with our international ChangeMakers on their scientific, social, philosophical, moral, or spiritual insights on the climate crisis and what they are doing in their fields of expertise to bring about rapid and effective change.


We are always adding new interviews, so please sign up for our newsletter to get updates on our latest video.

“We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . 

We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive.”
― Chief Oren Lyons 

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ECO JUSTICE FOR ALL INTERVIEWS

Video

Robin Hadlock Seeley, Ph.D

Marine Ecologist, Maine, USA

Dr. Riki Ott

Marine  Toxicologist, USA

David Loy

 Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center, USA

Rajesh Puroh

 Hindu Climate Action, UK 

Chief Arvol Looking Horse

19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle for the Great Sioux Nation. 

Full Interview & More Info

Dr. Vandana Shiva

Founder, Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (India) and President of Navdanya International. 

World-renowned environmental thinker, activist, feminist, philosopher of science, writer and science policy advocate.

Full Interview & More Info

Clayton Harvey

Production Manager, Ndée Bikíyaa (The People's Farm)
White Mountain Apache Tribe, Arizona

Full Interview & More Info

Leah Penniman

Co-Founder Soul Fire Farm, NY, Food Justice Activist and Author, "Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land.

Full Interview & More Info

Shani Mink

Co-Founder Jewish Farmer Network

Full Interview & More Info

Edgar Hayes & Ann Rader

Co-Founders Freedom Farm Community, New York

Full Interview & More Info

Kathryn Manga

Project Coordinator,

Peasant Movement of the Philippines

Full Interview & More Info

Daniel Wanjama

Coordinator, Seed Savers Network, Kenya

Full Interview & More Info

Heather McTeer Toney

National Field Director, Moms Clean Air Force; Former Regional Administrator for Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Southeast Region during Obama Presidency; Former Mayor of  Greenville, Mississippi

Full Interview & More Info

Astrid Caldas PhD

Senior Climate Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists.

Full Interview & More Info

Rev. Dr. Braybrooke

Chairman of the World Congress of Faiths and Patron of the International Interfaith Centre at Oxford. He is a Co-Founder of the Three Faiths Forum and formerly served as Executive Director of the Council for Christians and Jews in Great Britain.

Full Interview & More Info

Robin Kimmerer PhD

Scientist, Member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Author of "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants".

Full Interview & More Info

Tyrone Hayes PhD

Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.

Full Interview & More Info

Eda Zavala Lopez

Wari, Peru; Anthropologist, Sociologist, Shaman, Environmental Activist; Program Leader, Impact a Village & Rainforest  Action Network.

Full Interview & More Info

Jyotsna Singh PhD

Trustee, Temple of Understanding, India Chapter

Full Interview & More Info

Zanagee Artis

Co-Founder, Zero Hour.

Full Interview & More Info

Rabbi Ellen Bernstein

Writer, Eco-theologian

Founder, Shomrei Adamah, first national Jewish environmental organization

Full Interview & More Info

Kehkashan Basu

Founder & President, Green Hope Foundation

Youth Ambassador World Future Council.

Full Interview & More Info

Chief Redhawk

Chief of the Maisiti Yukayeke Taino Nation.

Full Interview & More Info

Imam Saffet Catovic

Muslim Chaplain, Drew University;

Islamic Society of North America Green Initiatives.

Full Interview & More Info

Isha Clarke

Cofounder, Youth Vs Apocalpse

Full Interview & More Info

Rev. William Swing

President & Founding Trustee, United Religions Initiative

Full Interview & More Info

Chief Oren Lyons

Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan,

Member Chief of the Onondaga Council of Chiefs and the Grand Council of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Haudenosaunee Peoples. 

Full Interview & More Info

Grandmother Mona Polacca

Chair, International Council of Indigenous Grandmothers

Full Interview & More Info

Steve Gorn

Grammy Award winning musician

Full Interview & More Info

Lyla June

Poet, musician, human ecologist, public speaker & community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages.

Full Interview & More Info

Rabbi David Rosen

 Former Chief Rabbi of Ireland; International Director of Interreligious Affairs of AJC, the American Jewish Committee and Director of its Heilbrunn Institute for International Interreligious Understanding. 

Full Interview & More Info

Audrey Kitagawa

Chair, Parliament of World's Religions.

Full Interview & More Info

Charles McNeill PhD

Senior Policy Advisor on Forest & Climate, UN Environment Programme.

Full Interview & More Info

Rev. Dr. Jim Antal

Denominational leader, climate activist, author & public theologian; Special Advisor on Climate Justice to the General Minister & President of the United Church of Christ. 

Full Interview & More Info

Rev. Susan Hendershot

President, Interfaith Power & Light.

Full Interview & More Info

Venerable Dr. Yifa

Founder, Woodenfish Foundation.

Full Interview & More Info

Reverend Fletcher Harper

Executive Director, GreenFaith.

Full Interview & More Info

Samir Chatterjee

Virtuoso Tabla Musician

Founder & Director, CHHANDAYAN

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Marlow Baines

Youth Director, Earth Guardians.

Full Interview & More Info

Nigel Savage

CEO, Hazon.

Full Interview & More Info

Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati

 Secretary-General, Global Interfaith WASH Alliance; President, Divine Shakti Foundation; Director, International Yoga Festival

Full Interview & More Info

Dr. Karan Singh

International Chair, India Chapters, Temple of Understanding

Full Interview & More Info

Azza Karam, PhD

Secretary General, Religions for Peace.

Full Interview & More Info

Rev. Victor Kazanjian

Executive Director, United Religions Initiative

Full Interview & More Info

Erin Lothes Biviano PhD

Program Director, Associate Professor, College of Saint Elizabeth

Full Interview & More Info

Mary Evelyn Tucker PhD

Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Divinity School; Department of Religious Studies, Yale University. 

Director Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale.

Full Interview & More Info

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