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Interfaith Perspective on Sustainability
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Meg Holden
Assistant Professor,
Urban Studies,
Simon Fraser University
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click here to RSVP or phone: 604.685.6560
As troubling as our loss of habitats, species, resources and ecological services is, the greatest challenge of urban sustainable development is not the ecological crisis.
Our greatest challenge instead is the conflict of faith among people who live in one city, yet ground themselves in a startling diversity of religious and spiritual traditions.
In multicultural cities, no single religious tradition or worldview provides a satisfactory answer to the question of where to look for the hope of survival and prosperity around the world, and into future.
If we continue our hope for democracy, then all religious and spiritual traditions represented in a city, are in some way necessary to the path forward.
We know the ‘tragedy of the commons’ allows us to avoid feeling responsible for our common property of clean air, water, and vital ecosystem services. We know less about working against such a tragedy in the emerging interfaith commons of our cities.
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Can we build together a rich public "sphere of the spirit", preserving traditions in place and in exile, and using practical and moral reasoning tools and techniques?
Come join us for lunch as we tackle the challenge of finding a thread that may draw together three religious traditions: Native, Jewish, and Christian.
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Date: Thursday | April 20 2006 | 12:15 - 1:30pm
Location: Main Floor, Terasen Gas Building
1111 West Georgia (at Thurlow), Vancouver BC
click here to RSVP or phone: 604.685.6560
$15.00 Members, $20.00 Non-Members
Includes sandwiches, salad, coffee and tea.
Please RSVP by Wednesday April 19 to help us
make accurate catering arrangements. Thank you.
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About Meg Holden
Meg is an Assistant Professor in the Urban Studies and Geography Departments at Simon Fraser University, where her research examines and promotes the hope of cities around the world for sustainable development.
She works on this through policy and action, civic engagement and social learning, urban philosophy and ethics, and community-based information systems approaches.
Her current projects include directing the Regional Vancouver Urban Observatory (www.rvu.ca), within the UN-Habitat Global Urban Observatory network, to develop an inter-perspective indicator set for the future-sustainable Vancouver region, and working with the Learning City (www.learningcity.gnwc.ca), an urban sustainability research and education initiative based in Vancouver.
Meg’s writing has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Urban Research, the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Environmental Ethics, Urbanistica, The Fiddlehead, Terrain, Petroglyph, and Orion Afield, among others. She obtained her Ph.D. in Public and Urban Policy from the New School for Social Research in New York City.
Date: Thursday | April 20 2006 | 12:15 - 1:30pm
Location: Main Floor, Terasen Gas Building
1111 West Georgia (at Thurlow), Vancouver BC
click here to RSVP or phone: 604.685.6560
See you there!
Click here to join Workplace Centre
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