The National Catholic Rural Life Conference is based in Iowa and applies Christian teaching to agriculture and food issues. The conference supports farm bill provisions that would “feed the hungry, preserve God’s creation, support small family farmers, and help rural America thrive.” It also supports creation care as part of its mission to protect rural life in America.

Rep. Collin C. Peterson, D-Minn., is the House Agriculture Committee’s ranking minority member.

The Orthodox Fellowship of the Transfiguration a pan-Orthodox association that addresses environmental issues.

WZEN offers a webcast (“Sounds from Zen Mountain”) from the teachers of the Mountains and Rivers order, along with Cybermonk, through which a senior monk will answer online questions about dharma.

The Inter-Religious Council at Emory University in Georgia organized the university’s first campus-wide interfaith service project, helping families affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Richard H. Seager is an associate professor of religious studies at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. He is studying the globalization and Americanization of Buddhism and is the author of Buddhism in America and Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai and the Globalization of Buddhism Humanism.

James D. Proctor is a professor and director of the Environmental Studies Program at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore. He holds degrees in environmental science and religious studies. He has directed programs on the relationship of science and religion.

Carl Feit, a retired professor of biology and chairman of health sciences at Yeshiva University in New York City, is an immunologist and cancer researcher as well as an ordained rabbi and Talmudic scholar.

David Wilcox is a biology professor emeritus at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pa., teaching the theoretical models of biological origins and the relationship between faith and science. He is the author of God and Evolution: A Faith-Based Understanding (Judson Press, 2004).