JPIC COMMISSION ASKS TO SIGN A STATEMENT FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE
The Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) Commission sent out a newsletter. In one of the articles the commission asks its readers to sign a statement for climate justice.
Religious communities around the world are being called to step forward. A campaign, launched during the recent webinar “Religious Life for Climate Justice: Turning Hope into Action” (July 25, 2025), urges religious congregations and ministries to align their spiritual commitments with concrete ecological action.
Grounded in the spirit of Laudato Si’ and in preparation for COP30, the campaign highlights the vital role of religious life in:
– Promoting climate justice rooted in moral responsibility
– Listening to the cries of the Earth and the poor
– Engaging in advocacy, education, and ecological conversion
Available in five languages, the resources and reflections from the event amplify voices from the Global South and offer tools to inspire faith-based action.
Sign the statement here: https://www.ecojesuit.com/ndcs-for-cop30/
RECENT CHANGES IN THIS WEBSITE: ARTICLES FROM KOSMOS JOURNAL
From early on, the end of each module on this website contains a section with articles for further reading and deepening. Recently these sections have been updated. Articles were added and removed. Most articles in these sections are from Kosmos Journal.
Some information about Kosmos Journal: The Kosmos Journal Mission is to inform, inspire and engage individual and collective participation for global transformation in harmony with all Life. This is achieved by sharing transformational thinking and policy initiatives, aesthetic beauty and wisdom, local to global.
The roots of Kosmos Journal are at the United Nations, where a group of globally-conscious, spiritually-oriented people, including NGO staff and ambassadors, integral thinkers and peacebuilders began meeting in the year 2000. This was the beginning of what eventually became Kosmos Journal.
Since that time, a growing community of noted authors, local and global activists, world spiritual figures, economists and ecologists have been speaking urgently of a world in crisis and of a simultaneous awakening across many fields of endeavor to an elevated consciousness, no longer based on greed, competition, and scarcity, but one informed by fresh expressions of cooperation, ancestral wisdom, community-building, sharing, and innovation at all scales from local to global.
Now in its third decade, Kosmos Journal informs, engages and inspires by transformational thinking, practice and policy grounded in spiritual wisdom and aesthetic beauty.
Visit Kosmos Journal at this link: https://www.kosmosjournal.org/article
THE GREAT LADY OF DEEP ECOLOGY DIED
In the last days of July Joanna Macy died. More than 20 years I learned about the deep ecology activist Joanna Macy ( May 2, 1929- July 19, 2025)
Joanna was an American environmental activist, author of various books on Deep Ecology. She was a scholar and was a spokesperson for anti-nuclear causes, justice and peace issues and environmentalism. Her most known book is Coming back to Life: Practices to Reconnect our lifes, Our World, and the process of the Great Turning. She was a great teacher and created a theoretical framework for personal and social change, general systems theory and deep ecology.
She died in Berkeley, California on July 19, 2025 at the age of 96.
We remember and honor this great gentle teacher and keeper of the Earth. Thank you Joanna for your great love for the World and all life. You changed my life and the lives of many others.
REFLECTIONS ON RELIGION AND ECOLOGY: YALE ALUMNI SPEAK FROM THE FIELD
We wanted to share with you this new project: “Reflections on Religion and Ecology: Yale Alumni Speak from the Field”. A wide-ranging project featuring interviews from Yale alumni to explore the hearts and minds of those working at the intersection of spiritual leadership and environmental action, faith, ecology, and justice.
It is a first-of-its-kind alumni interview series from the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, featuring over 20 graduates of Yale Divinity School and the Yale School of the Environment.
More information and the interviews can be found here: https://fore.yale.edu/Resources/Multimedia/Video/Reflections-on-Religion-Ecology-Yale-Alumni-Speak-from-the-Field