THE CLIMATE OF RESISTANCE

November 8, 2021: THE CLIMATE OF RESISTANCE — Chloe Aridjis, Writer’s Rebel, UK, Novelist, Sea Monsters (2020); Wanjira Mathai, Regional Director for Africa at the World Resources Institute

Award-winning novelist Chloe Aridjis and Conservationist Wanjira Mathai are powerful leaders in the global environmental movement who are fierce and compassionate, at once. They are also the daughters of iconic conservation heroes:  Homero Aridjis, a Mexican poet who started Grupo de Cien to save the monarch butterflies in the forests of Morelia where he was born; and Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai from Kenya who founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, who have planted more than 51 million trees, a stay against climate change. Aridjis and Mathai will be discussing how conservation is a generational stance and share what they as vibrant activists are seeing, feeling, dreaming and doing as women of their generation who are leading now.

Register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NvX-2xjiQzu9xD19oYd_sw

Terry Tempest Williams (author and Harvard Divinity School writer-in-residence), Charles M. Stang (director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School), and Dr. Sam Myers (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health principal research scientist and Planetary Health Alliance director) have launched The Constellation Project. The Constellation Project — a collaboration between the Harvard Divinity School, the Planetary Health Alliance, and the Center for the Study of World Religions—explores the spiritual crisis that underlies the ecological and public health crises associated with destruction of Earth’s natural systems. How do we share news stories about our relationship to each other and the natural world that could help set us on a different path? The Constellation Project aims to feature faith leaders bringing science into their sermons; scientists giving ‘reverence for life’ alongside their analyses; and scholars and students finding a place for their spiritual life.

This series is a Constellation Project in partnership with the Center of the Study of World Religions, Religion & Public Life, and The Planetary Health Alliance. Brian Kirbis of Theasophia Teas will open each conversation with Tea. Each conversation will begin at 7:00 p.m. EST and end at 8:30 p.m. virtually conducted by Terry Tempest Williams, writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School.

https://www.planetaryhealthalliance.org/the-constellation-project