Anne Daniell is an instructor in the religious studies department at Loyola University New Orleans. She is particularly interested in “theology of place” (particularly New Orleans), which examines how eco-culture affects religiosity and how constructive theological thinking can shape how people care for their environment.

George B. Handley is a professor of comparative studies and interdisciplinary humanities at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He often writes, speaks and teaches on the intersection of faith, literature and the environment and has written many essays on Mormonism and the environment. Handley co-edited Stewardship and the Creation: LDS Perspectives on the Environment.

Gregory Hitzhusen is a lecturer in the School of Environmental and Natural Resources at Ohio State University. His research interests include religious influences on environmental attitudes and behavior and other aspects of environmental ethics and eco-theology. Hitzhusen, who wrote his doctoral dissertation on the contributions of Christianity and Judaism to environmental ethics and education and […]

Read a Sept. 29, 2011, Vancouver Sun story about how Muslim principles of moderation and ethical treatment of animals are guiding a new emphasis within the faith on eco-responsibility.

Beth Conklin is an associate professor of anthropology and religious studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., and co-director of the Ecology and Spirituality in America project at the university’s Center for the Study of Religion and Culture. The project focuses on the influences driving the consumer culture in the U.S. and the problems it […]

The Rev. Ahriana Platten is founder and director of the Colorado EcoSpiritual Center in Colorado Springs. The center provides training and other resources that foster reverence for the Earth and its inhabitants. People of all beliefs and lifestyles are welcomed.

Lorrie Heber is director of the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice, a ministry of the Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana. The center fosters “the preservation, restoration and reverent use of all natural resources” and offers workshops, “Earth Sabbaticals” and other events.

Sister Linda Neil is a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and is based in the order’s Albany, N.Y., province. Neil, who has master’s degrees in Earth literacy and in religious studies, teaches a workshop series titled “Encountering Earth: Reclaiming the Human in the Web of Life,” designed to help participants become […]

Fred Bahnson is director of the Food, Faith & Religious Leadership Initiative at Wake Forest University School of Divinity in Winston-Salem, N.C. He co-founded a church-supported agriculture ministry in Cedar Grove, N.C., in 2005 and has taught regenerative agriculture for many years. Bahnson is the author of Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and […]