Achieving sustainable development requires a change in attitudes as well as actions. Investigating the ecological values based on the ethics and belief systems of major world religions could lead to heightened awareness of these values. In turn, this could affect the attitudes and actions of many people toward environmental issues.

The Foundation played a significant role in supporting the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School in its important series of conferences of 10 major world religions, each exploring its own traditions, values and theology that relate to ecology.

The Foundation has continued to support the Forum on Religion and Ecology, and other grantees, to ensure that values, ethics and religion might provide guidance in addressing environmental problems.

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