Sister Miriam Therese MacGillis is a Roman Catholic sister in the Dominican order who has been deeply involved in environmental work for decades. In 1980, she helped create Genesis Farm, an Earth literacy center in Blairstown, N.J., and she serves as its director. In 2007, the environmental magazine Grist named her one of the world’s top […]

Read an Oct. 16, 2013, article in The Atlantic about Roman Catholic nuns from a variety of orders who have become deeply involved in environmentalism.

Read the TreeHugger website’s Oct. 14, 2009, list of classic movies with “eco apocalyptic” themes.

Read a Nov. 4, 2012, Q-and-A at Patheos.com with religion professor Bron Taylor, who suggests that theology sometimes gets in the way of climatology.

Read a Jan. 23, 2014, Religion News Service about increased interest in burials that are more Earth-friendly than has been the custom.

Read a Jan. 29, 2010, story in The Forward about the executive director of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life and her plans for the organization.    

Sallie McFague is Distinguished Theologian in Residence at Vancouver School of Theology in Canada and a former dean at Vanderbilt University’s Divinity School. She has written numerous articles and several books on theology and the environment, including Super, Natural Christians: How We Should Love Nature and Blessed Are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice […]

Read a June 2012 article from The United Church Observer, a Canadian publication, about the blurring of religion and environmentalism in that country and how environmentalism has become in some ways a civil religion.

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.