Environment
The Mississippi
THE MISSISSIPPI:
AT THE TIPPING POINT
By clarifying the problems of the Mississippi, in this film scientists, religious leaders, environmental activists, politicans, and the media focus on ecological questions facing the world's third largest water system.
The Arctic
THE ARCTIC:
CONSEQUENCES OF HUMAN FOLLY
While the inhabitants of the Arctic have done nothing to contribute to the global ecological crisis, they are first in line to suffer the consequences. Greenland is the canary in the coal mine of immense environmental change in the world.
The Amazon
THE AMAZON:
THE END OF INFINITY
The Amazon forest—The Green Ocean—is not only the source of the highest biodiversity of life on Earth, but it also acts as a massive hydrological pump that is essential to maintaining climate stability for the whole planet.
Living Waters
LIVING WATERS:
SAVING OUR SEAS AND RIVERS
The Religion Science and Environment symposia, lead by the Ecumenical Patriarch, brings together scientists and religious leaders in order to seek solutions to the ecological crisis threatening the world's rivers and seas.
The Baltic
THE BALTIC:
A SEA IN PERIL
Because it is almost entirely enclosed, the Baltic Sea is the world's most fragile and most polluted bodies of water. It receives pollution from nine countries that have widely disparate natural resources, economies, social structures and mores.
The Adriatic
THE ADRIATIC:
A SEA AT RISK
The need for a universal ecological consciousness is now essential to the planet's survival. With this in mind, the Religion, Science and the Environment symposium that sailed the Adriatic Sea focused on how humanity can be inspired towards an ecological ethos.
The Danube
THE DANUBE:
RIVER OF LIFE
Religious, scientific, environmental and political leaders travel the Danube from Passau, Germany, to its delta on the Black Sea and explore the common ground between pragmatic environmental issues and the spiritual dimensions of nature.
The Black Sea
A VOYAGE OF HEALING
"The ecological crisis facing humanity in our time cannot be overcome unless all human beings join forces in an attempt to find a solution to it. Neither science can respond to the challenge of the environmental crisis without religion nor can religion do that without science." -- Metropolitan John of Pergamon
The Aegean
THE AEGEAN: APOCOLYPSE,
REVELATION & ENVIRONMENT
"We are assembled on a kind of latter day Ark which in itself is a symbol which would have delighted St. John. We shall be voyaging to Patmos on the sea of possibility from which life emerged." -- His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew