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Eco-Scripture: 'Love Thy Neighbor' as Environmentalism

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Channel: FORA.tv · 2010 · News & Politics

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/23/Reverend_Bingham_and_Rabbi_Pearce_Is_Your_God_Green

Rabbi Stephen Pearce and Reverend Sally Bingham cite passages of scripture that they see as relevant to environmentalism. Bingham interprets Jesus' remark that "what you do to the least of us, you do to me" as reason to save the environment, as environmental degradation disproportionately affects the poor.

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"Is Your God Green?" Presented in collaboration with Climate One and the Commonwealth Club of California.

What would Jesus say about climate change? What does the Torah say about stewardship of God's creation?

Leaders from different religious traditions (Reverend Sally Bingham and Rabbi Stephen Pearce) discuss how their respective philosophies and scriptures guide their approach to today's energy challenges. They also address how congregations around the country are getting involved in the movement to build a cleaner energy future. - Climate One and the Commonwealth Club of California

Stephen S. Pearce, D.D., Ph.D., is senior rabbi of Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco. For twenty years he was a faculty member in the Human Relations Department of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City, and he also taught at the University of San Francisco, the University of Connecticut, and St. John's University, where he earned his doctorate in counselor psychology.

The Rev. Sally Grover Bingham is a Priest in the Diocese of California currently working as the Environmental Minister at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. She has been the chair of the Episcopal Diocesan Commission for the Environment for the last eight years. Bingham has been active in the environmental community for twenty years and serves on the national board of Environmental Defense Fund. She is the founder and executive director of The Regeneration Project, a nonprofit ministry, at this time, focusing on a response to global climate change.

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