Toronto - Interfaith Retreat on Climate Change as a Moral Issue

Date: April 14th-15th, 2010
Time: Starts at 9:00am
Where: United Church of Canada, 3250 Bloor St. West, Suite 300, Toronto, Ontario
Group: Elliott Allen Institute for Theology and Ecology

Contact: Lauryn Drainie
Tel.: (416) 593-0906
Email: ldrainie@climateactionnetwork.ca

Event Description: Leaders from different faith traditions will meet for two days in April to answer these two questions at a retreat on “Climate Change as a Moral Issue,” where they will join leaders from both environmental and international development NGOs for intense dialogue and planning.

The retreat is being organized by a group of leaders from a diversity of faith group communities in Toronto, including two university professors who are deeply involved with faith and environmental issues.

Dr. Mishka Lysack, an assistant professor at the Faculty of Social Work at the University Of Calgary and an Anglican minister, co-chair, and: Dr. Dennis Patrick O’Hara, Director of the Elliott Allen Institute for Theology and Ecology and assistant professor at the University of St. Michael’s College, and associate member of the graduate faculty of the Centre for Environment at the University of Toronto, is the other co-chair of the retreat.”

Video: Climate Action Network - Canada's executive director, Grahm Saul, answers the question, "Is climate change a moral issue?"