Power of Community Summit
Feb 1-10, 2019
Rev. Fletcher Harper
Reverend Fletcher Harper shares his personal experience on becoming a priest and a preacher for the environment. He explores world religious traditions and how they connect to nature, and the urgency of understanding climate engineering. He suggests that religion can be a support system for living the change, and how we can deepen our faith.
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- Introduction
- Becoming a priest and a preacher for the environment
- World religions traditions and nature
- Climate engineering
- Green faith inspiring communities
- Religion as support systems and resilience
- Green faith and living the climate
- System change and personal changes
- Deepening faith
The Reverend Fletcher Harper, an Episcopal priest, directs GreenFaith, an international interfaith environmental organization. In the past four years, he coordinated the 2015 OurVoices campaign, which mobilized religious support for COP 21, organized of faith communities for the People’s Climate Marches in NYC and Washington DC, helped lead the faith-based fossil fuel divestment movement, supported the launch of the Interfaith Rainforest Initiative, and co-founded Shine, a campaign to end energy poverty with renewable energy. He’s now focused on creating multi-faith GreenFaith Circles in local communities globally. Fletcher is the author of GreenFaith: Mobilizing God’s People to Protect the Earth (Abingdon Press, March 2015).
References:
The Biochar Solution: Carbon Farming and Climate Change, by Albert Bates
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4 Comments
ah well I think I can handle it,
listening to reverend Fletcher,
it looks to me that I need to adjust my opinion about priests.
Enjoyed your ethics, passion, pledges and expertise reverend!
Thank you!
Reverend Fletcher, I much enjoyed your podcast, and I know I will reflect more on what you shared. Mostly I will be seeking out in my community religious leaders that are attuned to the GreenFaith and invite them to a sacred circle which focuses on Eco villages concept communities, local farming, and the reduction of our footprint on dependencies which fossil fuel is a main contributor.
Again much inspired, thank you Rev. Fletcher
It’s delightful and encouraging to witness the mainstream faiths rising to the climate challenge as whole heartedly and effectively as they do. Rev Fletcher, you are an inspiring example and I applaud the ‘conscientious’ work that you do.
Sue
Inspiring talk which stimulated my comment, though not directly aimed at Fletcher.
The elephant in the room which no one seems to mention is our addiction to smart phones, the internet and Facebook. I’m sure these are some of the biggest companies with huge carbon emissions and water use but no one has mentioned reducing our dependency on this addiction or divesting our support. Is it because the energy and water use is not in my backyard (NIMBY)?