Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, based in New York City, is a North American association of nearly 250 Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Jewish institutional investors working to hold corporations accountable to stewardship of the earth, among other issues. Contact Susana McDermott, director of communications.

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Religious Witness for the Earth

Religious Witness for the Earth, based in Littleton, Mass., is a national interfaith network dedicated to public witness on issues such as climate change and environmental devastation. Contact co-chairs Rev. Dr. Andrea Ayvazian,  senior minister of the Haydenville Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, in Haydenville, Mass.; or Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb of Adat Shalom […]

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John Berthrong

John Berthrong is associate professor of comparative theology at the Boston University School of Theology. His books include, as co-editor, Confucianism and Ecology: The Interrelation of Heaven, Earth and Humans (Harvard University Press, 1998).

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Rick Clugston

Rick Clugston is executive director of Maine Interfaith Power and Light, based in Portland, a nonprofit organization working to bring environmentally-friendly electricity to consumers in the state.

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Vasudha Narayanan

Vasudha Narayanan is Distinguished Professor of Religion at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and she helped found the university’s Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions, of which she is director. She is a noted scholar of Hinduism and the environment.

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Kenneth Kraft

Kenneth Kraft is a professor emeritus of religious studies at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., and an expert on socially engaged Buddhism. His books include The Wheel of Engaged Buddhism: A New Map of the Path, on spiritual responses to social and environmental issues, and, as co-editor, Dharma Rain: Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism.

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Stephanie Kaza

Stephanie Kaza is a professor of environmental studies at the University of Vermont in Burlington, where she teaches courses on religion and ecology, eco-feminism and “unlearning consumerism.” She is a practicing Soto Zen Buddhist and is co-editor of Dharma Rain: Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism.

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