Welcome, all! Thank you for joining us today. Some housekeeping: Please use the Q&A feature below the speaker video to send in your questions. Please do not use this chat box for questions, but feel free to share relevant resources. Finally, please use #SEJ2021 to tweet about this event. The webinar will be recorded and emailed along with the chat file to all attendees later today or tomorrow. Finally, if you're planning to apply for SEJ's Fund for Environmental Journalism grant on this topic, stick around until 2 p.m. ET to ask our Executive Director Meaghan Parker your FEJ questions. Meera will also be available to answer RESP fellowship questions. Thanks!

For those just joining us, welcome! Thank you for joining us today. Some housekeeping: Please use the Q&A feature below the speaker video to send in your questions. Please do not use this chat box for questions, but feel free to share relevant resources. Finally, please use #SEJ2021 to tweet about this event. The webinar will be recorded and emailed along with the chat file to all attendees later today or tomorrow. Finally, if you're planning to apply for SEJ's Fund for Environmental Journalism grant on this topic, stick around until 2 p.m. ET to ask our Executive Director Meaghan Parker your FEJ questions. Meera will also be available to answer RESP fellowship questions. Thanks!

Religion & Environment Story Project (RESP): http://sites.bu.edu/resp/about/

Apply for a Fund for Environmental Journalism grant: http://bit.ly/2KLA6k4

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“Seeing God’s Hand in the Deadly Floods, Yet Wondering about Climate Change,” by Meera Subramanian via Inside Climate News: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24102017/christianity-evangelical-climate-change-flooding-west-virginia/

Religion & Environment Story Project (RESP): http://sites.bu.edu/resp/about/

The Religion & Environment Story Project (RESP) fellowship: http://sites.bu.edu/resp/resp-fellowship/

• Sigal Samuel: https://www.vox.com/authors/sigal-samuel • Amanda Bough: https://www.amandajbaugh.com/ • Sumanth Prabhaker: https://orionmagazine.org/contributor/sumanth-prabhaker/

Reminder: if you’d like to tweet about this webinar, please use #SEJ2021.

• “Should animals, plants, and robots have the same rights as you?” by Sigal Samuel via Vox: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/4/18285986/robot-animal-nature-expanding-moral-circle-peter-singer • “Why do we care how smart animals are?” by Sigal Samuel via Vox: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22373580/animals-intelligent-smart-orcas-chickens

“The Muslims Who Want to Save Octopuses,” by Lisa de Bode via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/03/muslim-octopus-zanzibar/554273/

Hi, Tejendra! Please add your question to the Q&A feature below the speaker video.

“Swimming with Crocodiles: Nature is avenged by a prehistoric animal” by ANNA LOWENHAUPT TSING & NILS BUBANDT, Orion Magazine: https://orionmagazine.org/article/swimming-with-crocodiles/

Amanda’s very brief overview of scholarship on climate change and religion: https://www.nxterra.orfaleacenter.ucsb.edu/topic-climate-change-religion/

Scholarly networks: International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC) https://www.issrnc.org/page/2/ and Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology https://fore.yale.edu/

Religious Environmental Non-profits: Interfaith Power and Light (IPL) has state affiliates in almost every state https://www.interfaithpowerandlight.org/. Greenfaith - an “international, multi-faith global network” addressing climate change and other environmental issues https://greenfaith.org/, Hazon - “Jewish lab for sustainability” https://hazon.org/, Catholic Climate Covenant https://catholicclimatecovenant.org/

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520303676/the-gospel-of-climate-skepticism

PRRI 2014 Survey on religion, values, and climate change: https://www.prri.org/research/believers-sympathizers-skeptics-americans-conflicted-climate-change-environmental-policy-science/

FEJ-Funded Project: Chris Berdik of Massachusetts, with Tik Root and Juan Herrero, for reporting for Newsweek and Politico on how faith leaders and the “creation care” movement are affecting the US climate change debate. “Can Christianity Make the U.S. Care About Climate Change?" Newsweek, March 9, 2016, by Tik Root: https://www.newsweek.com/2016/03/18/creation-care-evangelical-christianity-climate-change-434865.html. "Christian. Conservative. Treehugger." Politico Magazine, December 6, 2015, by Chris Berdik: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/12/christian-conservative-environmentalists-213417.

I know https://www.dw.com/en/what-do-fishing-and-family-planning-have-in-common/a-36826151

Turning academic scholarship into general readership article: “When it comes to the environment, minority communities care about more than injustice,” by Amanda Baugh via The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/when-it-comes-to-the-environment-minority-communities-care-about-more-than-injustice-44067

Find the advocates, if you can. https://www.dw.com/en/americas-plains-indians-bring-back-bison-to-their-lands/a-46984048

Yale Program on Climate Communication survey: Climate Change in the American Christian Mind: https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-in-the-american-christian-mind/

“‘Within minutes I was weeping’: the US pastor using scripture to mobilize climate action,” in The Guardian by Melissa Godin: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/20/the-rev-scott-hardin-nieri-north-carolina-climate-action

Religion and Climate Change Roundtable hosted by the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture (IUPUI): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYg7IYki4HY

“Seeing God’s Hand in the Deadly Floods, Yet Wondering about Climate Change,” by Meera Subramanian via Inside Climate News: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24102017/christianity-evangelical-climate-change-flooding-west-virginia/

Generation Climate: Can Young Evangelicals Change the Climate Debate?For students at this top evangelical college, loving God means protecting creation. That includes dealing with the human sources of climate change.BY MEERA SUBRAMANIAN: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21112018/evangelicals-climate-change-action-creation-care-wheaton-college-millennials-yeca/

Questions about applying for FEJ grants or RESP fellowship? Stay online after the panel discussion ends at 2 PM ET to ask me and Meera your questions.

National Catholic Reporter / Earth Beat: https://www.ncronline.org/earthbeat

From SEJ’s 2018 Conference in Flint, MI: Faith and the Environment: How Religious Leaders Are Changing Hearts in Support of Eco-justice: https://www.sej.org/sej-annual-conferences/AC2018-agenda-saturday#CS4NATION.⁃ Audio recording: https://www.sej.org/sej-annual-conferences/AC2018-coverage#CS4NATION

colonialism is entirely anti-environment. Definitely. white supremacy is baked into how US and Canada were formed and colonialism anywhere. This is a vital webinar. Thanks for these conversations.

https://www.sej.org/publications/sejournal/overview

SEJ’s Climate Change Resource Guide: https://www.sej.org/climate-guide

fascinating (multiple flood origin stories); intriguing to how that kind of cataclysmic event is translated into oral narrative and later art, mythology in various religions and spiritualities.

In addition to SEJournal's free tipsheets and backgrounders, SEJ's members-only listservs are a great resource for journalists new to environmental beat -- you can ask veteran environmental journalists for advice and sources. Join SEJ at www.sej.org/join

Maybe called “eco” knowledge now but has always been known as knowledge in Indigenous cultures

no separation from land (Indigenous). Love this convo.

Humility so key. One of the Seven Grandfather Teachings, too. Decolonizing approach.

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In case useful, the work of Zen Buddhist scholar David Loy focuses on this. David Loy, a Zen Buddhist scholar whose focus is environment? https://www.davidloy.orgHe wrote EcoDharmahttps://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ecodharma/David-Loy/9781614293828

thank you from the bottom of my agnostic soul lol thank you!

Thank you!

The Society of Environmental Journalists is now accepting proposals for story grants of up to $5,000 on two topics:Environment-climate-religion connections, including underrepresented religions. Register for the related #SEJ2021 Webinar here.Environmental health and justice in the United States, including chemical/toxic exposure and pollution. Register for the related #SEJ2021 Webinar here.

DEADLINE: June 15, 2021, 11:59 p.m. ET

Full list of guidelines: https://www.sej.org/initiatives/fej-program-guidelines

What if you’ve hit upon a story and you’d like to return to a topic that you’ve covered on prior occasions?

Only one FEJ application per person will be accepted.

Note — this FEJ topic is limited to the U.S.: Environmental health and justice in the United States, including chemical/toxic exposure and pollution.

RESP fellowship: http://sites.bu.edu/resp/resp-fellowship/

For the fellowship, how much of a history doing stories that include BOTH religion AND environment in one piece do we need to have to be in the running (as opposed to lots of stories in each category but not necessarily crossover pieces)?

Cool. Thank you so much!

thanks, everyone!!

What sorts of things are usually included in the budgets for your applications? (I’m a freelancer.) For example, car driving time for interviews and archival research, gas expenses, my time as a researcher/writer?

If you’re interested in the Environmental Health and Justice topic for FEJ, catch the recording from last week’s webinar here: https://www.sej.org/calendar/sej-webinar-what-would-real-environmental-health-and-justice-look-like

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Apply for a Fund for Environmental Journalism grant: http://bit.ly/2KLA6k4

The Religion & Environment Story Project (RESP) fellowship: http://sites.bu.edu/resp/resp-fellowship/

https://www.sej.org/initiatives/fej-program-guidelines

RESP contact: http://sites.bu.edu/resp/contact/

Thank you both!!

thank you!