Nature's Energy

Author and scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker explains that in our current physical and spiritual search for sustainable energies, we can look to Indigenous Peoples for their sense of traditional environmental knowledge and the immediate power of nature.

Mary Evelyn Tucker
Mary Evelyn Tucker is a Senior Lecturer and Senior Scholar at Yale University where she has appointments in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies as well as the Divinity School and the Department of Religious Studies. She is a co-founder and co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology and organized a conference series on World Religions and Ecology at Harvard Divinity School. She is also Research Associate at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard. 

She is the author of numerous books, including Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (Open Court Press, 2003), and Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism (SUNY, 1989). She co-edited  a series of books examining religion and ecology as well as a Daedalus volume titled Religion and Ecology: Can the Climate Change? (2001). She edited several of Thomas Berry's books including Evening Thoughts (Sierra Club Books and University of California Press, 2006), The Sacred Universe (Columbia Univ. Press, 2009), Christian Future and the Fate of Earth (Orbis Book, 2009). 

She is a member of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), served on the International Earth Charter Drafting Committee from 1997-2000 and is a member of the Earth Charter International Council.

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