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The An Assocation of Eco-Spirituality Advocates
The informal association is a coalition of Eco-Spirituality Experts and Advocates who assist not-for-profits and NGO’s of similar aim and dedication. We are affiliated with numerous constituencies and institutions as fits our expertise and aims.
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NEWS The Association will take part in presenting a month-long program on Eco-Spirituality at One Spirit Interfaith in New York City, www.onespiritinterfaith.org. The evenings will be March 5, 12, 19, and 26th, 2013
Member Programs to Date
2011, February 12. New York City. Providing Speakers for Discussion with international Contemplative Alliance on ecological issues of "Redefining Prosperity", UN Plaza 2011, May 25. New York City. Water Defense Program on Dangers of Gas Hydrofracking; Ethical Culture Auditorium, New York City 2011, October 25. New York City. Providing Speakers for United Nations NGO Week of Spirituality. Program on Eco-spirituality (see details at bottom). Our Association has no official connections, unless that of individuals, to any of the organizations to whch we may be asked to contribute expertise or speakers
******** Members of the Association
Rev. Dr.
Kurt Johnson (NY) (Contemplative Alliance, InterSpiritual Multiplex, American Museum
of Natural History [retired], co-founder Interspiritual Dialogue and Community of The
Mystic Heart)
Dr. Ernest
Wachter (PA): co-founder of OUnI,
CMH [Community of The Mystic Heart]; M.Div. in eco-spirituality under Fr. Thomas Berry --NEXT PROGRAM for which we are providing speakers--
Environmental Protection as Spiritual Practice
for Visionary Leadership
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2011 11 AM - 12:30 PM
221 East
52nd Street, between 2nd & 3rd Avenues, NY, NY
Lawrence Troster Co-chair,
Interfaith Partnership for theEnvironment of UNEP; Director of Fellowship Program,
Greenfaith The Beginning of Wisdom: The Development of
Spiritual Environmental Leaders Rabbi
Lawrence Troster will speak about the necessity of developing trained religious
environmental leaders. While all religious leaders seek to transform the members of the
community to reflect the values of their respective traditions, they do so within the
context of well-established leadership models. In the religious response to the
environmental crisis, there has been a lack of trained and informed leadership.
Seminaries, both Jewish and Christian, have rarely provided religious environmental
education as regular part of seminary training. Most religious environmental leaders have
been self-educated. Rabbi Troster was instrumental in creating the GreenFaith Fellowship
Program in the fall of 2007, designed to develop a diverse and religiously based
environmental leadership. In many faith traditions, there are traditional models of
spiritual exemplars. Many religious environmental leaders have not been inspired by
traditional models but instead have found their inspiration from secular or
non-traditional sources. Rabbi Troster will also suggest ways that traditional models of
spiritual leadership can be utilized to develop sustainable spiritual communities. Dr. James A. F. Stoner Chairholder,
Chair for Global Sustainability, Awareness, Passion, Action: Spiritual Leadership
for Global Sustainability Jim Stoner
will report research by Isabel Rimanoczy on individuals who became sustainability leaders
on their own initiatives – not because it was part of their job descriptions.
Her findings suggest that “doing the right thing for moral, religious, spiritual
and/or ethical reasons” was the most powerful driver of their commitments. Jim
will acknowledge that there are strong "business and career cases" for global
sustainability, but that leaders serve themselves and others best by bringing their
spirituality out of the closet and admitting, loudly, clearly, and often, that the
“moral and spiritual and religious case” is THE case for global sustainability
and recognizing that it is also the case that can, does, and will drive us and others to
do what we know is the right thing to do.
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