The sixth installment of “A Communion of Subjects: Law, Environment, and Religion” features an interview with Peter Raven, President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

The second installment of “A Communion of Subjects: Law, Environment, and Religion” features an interview with Robin W. Kimmerer, Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.

The first installment of “A Communion of Subjects: Law, Environment, and Religion” features an interview with Carl Safina, President of the Safina Center.

The third installment of “A Communion of Subjects: Law, Environment, and Religion” features an interview with Katharine Jefferts Schori, Former Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States. This conversation delves into Bishop Katharine’s background as an oceanographer and her role as Presiding Bishop, and explores the connections between science, religion, ecology, and gender in her life and work.

The fifth installment of “A Communion of Subjects: Law, Environment, and Religion” features an interview with Richard Norgaard, Professor of Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley.

In the final weeks before the creation of Lake Powell, Richard Norgaard led David Brower, Elliot Porter, and others on a series of trips down the Glen Canyon. In this interview, we explore how this experience led Norgaard to a career in economics, where he vowed to change the field from within. Now, 50 years later, Norgaard reflects on this collective effort to found the field of ecological economics and why, more than ever, science and economics need a sense of humility and openness to...

This podcast features Mr William Reilly - an avowed Catholic, Yale graduate, former director of World Wildlife Foundation, the EPA administrator under President H. W. Bush, co-chair of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, and board member of various well known corporations and not-for-profits. We discuss the proper roles of science, religion, and economics in mediating how humans interact with the environment and each other, and also dive into...

This podcast is an introduction to a series of podcasts created as a part of the Yale course, "A Communion of Subjects: Law, Environment, and Religion." The course featured the scholarship and practice of leading figures working at the intersection of law, environment, and religion. Students conducted these podcast interviews with invited speakers to discuss issues related to their life history, values, and worldviews. In this podcast, professors Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, and Douglas...

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, renowned conservation biologist and University Professor in the Environmental Science and Policy department at George Mason University. Over the course of the podcast, Dr. Lovejoy covers many topics related to his life and work ranging from his early experiences with biology and research in the Amazon to later interactions with policy and politics. His insights draw on decades of engagement with vital parts of our planet while looking to the...

Jedediah S. Purdy is the Robinson O. Everett Professor of Law at Duke University and the author of several books, including the forthcoming After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene, under contract with Harvard University Press. In these interviews conducted at Yale, Purdy speaks with eloquence and contemplation on topics ranging from the influence of his rural upbringing in West Virginia to what the Anthropocene means for legal theory, politics, and environmental advocacy.

In this third podcast from A Communion of Subjects: Law, Environment and Religion, we discuss “Animals”—what, or whom, are we talking about when we talk about “animals”? How can we use our personal interactions with nonhuman animals to enlarge our understanding of community, love and empathy. And what are our responsibilities to the “animal”--or, more precisely, the nonhuman animal world?” We are delighted to be joined by Paul Waldau, director of the Anthrozoology Program at Canisius College...

In this interview with Linda Sheehan, an advocate for the Rights of Nature, we discuss how childhood memories of nature can cultivate an appreciation and love for the natural world. We also discuss how meditation and spiritual traditions have influenced her work. Sheehan proposes reevaluating our current economic system as a means of remedying its negative effects on the environment.

James Cramer and Samara Brock talk to James Anaya about his international work on indigenous rights. The conversation spans many topics including how he became involved in this work, current issues facing indigenous groups, and where he sees hope for the future.