Eco-Justice Workshops 2012
Workshops Coordinator
Chloe Schwabe
Environmental Health Program Manager,
National Council of Churches
We are living in an age when human health and Creation itself are under threat. It is often God’s Creation and vulnerable populations such as people living in poverty, that face the most devastating impacts of environmental degradation. The Eco-Justice workshops will focus special attention on the links between environmental degradation and economic justice. Workshop topics include energy ethics and local livelihoods, Creation’s place in the federal budget, environmental health in low-income communities, and the choices we can make as people of faith to ensure a world fit for the seventh generation.
Proposed Workshops
- Energy Justice and Local Livelihoods: The Moral implications of Mountaintop Removal and Fracking
We are all dependent on energy for our homes, houses of worship, and transportation. Yet the price of this energy is high for local communities who are displaced, fall sick, or that are left with polluted lands. The panelists will explain how these two extractive industries operate and harm human communities and livelihoods and God's Creation.
- Environmental Health and Economic Justice
We live in a chemical world. Chemicals are used in everyday modern conveniences such as furniture, personal care products, cookware, and food. Yet from production to disposal, these chemicals harm the health and livelihoods of low-income people, particularly low-income people of color, and children. Learn about some of these chemicals of concern, why these populations are most vulnerable, and how you can be an agent of change to put the health of God's people over corporate profits.
- Is God's Creation a National Economic Priority?
- Faith and Materialism
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