Joy Bergey is state coordinator of the Pennsylvania Interfaith Global Climate Change Campaign, based in Laverock, Pa.

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 […]

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).

Timothy C. Weiskel co-directs the Working Group on Environmental Justice, based in Cambridge, Mass. The group offers publications accessible through the web.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr is a world-renowned scholar on Islam who teaches Islamic studies at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. His writings include Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man and The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity. Much of his work focuses on Islamic spiritual values, but he has also written about the religious […]