We can’t get There from Here

On December 4th 2024, CUHF Senior Fellow Bayo Akomolafe joined Paul Hawken in conversation for the 44th Annual E.F. Schumacher...

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What Matters Now in Higher Ed

On Sunday, May 26, educator and author Ahmed Afzal joined CUHF Council members from around the world to ask where...

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LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL

This March, award-winning author and CUHF Council member, Emily Raboteau, released her latest book Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “the...

PRESENCE

On Sunday, November 5, Council members and conveners from around the world came together for the final What Matters Now...

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Ignition Book Launch

Members of the Council on the Uncertain Human Future came together at MASSMoCA on Thursday, October 19th to celebrate the...

WONDER

On Sunday, October 8, the CUHF What Matters Now series continued as Council members and conveners joined with a call...

April 2023 Council session with Bayo Akomolafe at MassMoCA.

Council with Bayo Akomolafe at MassMoCA

The insights of  Bayo Akomolafe as we live into these times upend our patterns of thought and ways of knowing....

Worcester State Professor, Siri Colom, participates in a CUHF Council circle at the MIT Climate Symposium

CUHF at MIT Climate Education Symposium

What does it mean to educate now? How do we meet the times, together and with our students? A Council...

CONNECT

On Sunday, April 16, Council members and conveners from around the world came together around a call to Connect. Together,...

A Field of Study and a Moral Force

After 25 years leading the novel initiative they co-founded, the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, CUHF National Council member...

LEAN INTO THE CRACKS

On Thursday, January 19, visionary thinker and writer Bayo Akomolafe joined Council members and conveners from around the world to...

Melissa Hoffer Appointed Climate Chief

On her first full day in office, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healy signed an executive order creating the state’s first Cabinet-level...

Learn and unlearn

On Sunday, November 13, Council members and conveners from around the world came together for the second event in the...

Slow down and listen

On Sunday, October 2, the CUHF Core Team welcomed Council members and conveners from around the world for the first...

CAMILLE SEAMAN, RE:WIRED GREEN 2022

On September 28, CUHF National Council member Camille Seaman discussed her most striking photos at the climate conference Re:WIRED Green,...

ARTS & CULTURE AT COP26

Edinburgh CUHF member Wallace Heim has co-authored a new report exploring the roles of arts and culture around COP26, the...

CAMILLE SEAMAN, BRIEF BUT SPECTACULAR

CUHF National Council member Camille Seaman shared her take on being a good ancestor in the PBS News Hour’s recurring...

Buddhist Approaches to Climate Change

On May 5, 2022, CUHF National Council member Lama Willa Blythe Baker challenged an audience at MIT to look beyond...

A Mindful Circle

A number of CUHF conveners are longtime Buddhist practitioners. On Sunday, May 22, they came together via Zoom to reflect,...

Growing CUHF Community at MIT

Will the future be humane and livable? What knowledge and values will guide and sustain us? For nearly two years,...

The Language of Trees

On Tuesday April 26, CUHF National Council members Kathleen Dean Moore and Mary Evelyn Tucker were featured in the online...

Elm Dance Healing Ceremony

On April 9, CUHF National Convener, Nastasia Lawton-Sticklor, and eight New England activists held a Healing Ceremony at the ash...

Once You Know

On Sunday April 3, our International CUHF gathering brought together Council members and conveners from around the world for an...

Welcome, Lily Swanbrow Becker

On February 1, CUHF welcomed Lily Swanbrow Becker as our Associate Director. Lily is an ecologist and facilitator who brings...

2022 Dharma Dialogues at NDF

Our partners at Natural Dharma Fellowship have launched their 2022 Dharma Dialogues—EcoSattvas in the Anthropocene: Buddhist responses to climate change—a...

Multisolving Institute Launch

The idea of multisolving was developed by CUHF National Council member, Dr. Elizabeth Sawin, while she was the Co-Director of...

A Reckoning in Boston

On the weekend of January 15-16th, our International CUHF gathering brought together Council members and conveners from around the world...

the circle of community

On Sunday, December 5th, our International CUHF gathering welcomed Council members and conveners from around the world via Zoom for...

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Speaking to duality

Something will always rise up and fall again is a collaboration between the poet Kathryn Hunt and National Council member...

In Witness, film launch

On Sunday, October 24th, our International CUHF gathering welcomed Council members and conveners from around the world for the launch...

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PHOTOGRAPHING THE ANTARCTIC

National Council member Camille Seaman has been photographing the fragile, and rapidly changing, environment of Antarctica for more than 15...

this sentient Earth

On Sunday, June 13th, our International CUHF gathering welcomed Council members and conveners from around the world for a conversation...

Love in the Time of Extinctions

On Sunday, April 11th, our International CUHF gathering welcomed Council members and conveners from around the world for a conversation...

Good Earth series

Esha Chiocchio, photographer and Santa Fe CUHF anchor, collaborated with Mary-Charlotte Domandi and editor Madison McClintock to create the Good...

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Remembering Mary Catherine

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Mary Catherine Bateson, a beloved member of the original...

On Climate Feedback Loops

On Saturday, January 9th we celebrated the start of a powerful conversation on the The Crisis of Climate Feedback Loops...

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EPA Welcomes Melissa Hoffer

We are proud to announce that CUHF Core Team member Melissa Hoffer has been appointed to the Environmental Protection Agency’s...

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Music to Save Earth’s Songs

National Council member Kathleen Dean Moore’s newest work Earth’s Wild Music (February 2021) has inspired a powerful new series called...

All We Can Save

On Sunday, December 13th we celebrated the launch of our International CUHF series with a special conversation among three influential...

EcoSattva Council

Our partners at the Natural Dharma Fellowship are deeply committed to the work of transforming our inner and outer worlds...

Coral Stewardship in the Caribbean

National Council member Joanie Kleypas has been working to protect and rebuild the Golfo Dulce coral reef through ongoing work...

Snow Leopard Research in Nepal

Kathmandu Council member Tshiring Lhamu Lama is dedicated to protecting the snow leopards that live near Phoksundo Lake in Nepal’s...

The Distant is Imminent

National Council member Camille Seaman is among a group of participating artists featured in a newly launched art action as part...

The Critical Role of Forests in Protecting Climate & Health

Melissa Hoffer (CUHF Core Team member) is Chief of the Energy and Environment Bureau of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office....

Spiritual Resource for Climate Action

National Council member Lama Willa Blythe Baker shares teachings from the Buddhist tradition as a critical resource for climate activism...

Bending Arc

National Council member Janet Echelman has just debuted her newest installation piece, Bending Arc, at St. Pete Pier. Located near...

Fighting Climate Deception

“We are spending our time fighting a last-minute battle to preserve a livable world for ourselves and future generations because...

Poems for a Strawberry Moon

Members of the national Council met for reflection at the time of the Strawberry full moon in June, and shared...

Dharma Lessons for these Times

EcoSattva Council member and Buddhist scholar Karin Meyers invokes the need for Dharma in this time of crisis, in her piece...

An Address to the Class of 2020

In this evocative commencement keynote address, National Council member and philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore congratulates the 2020 graduating class of...

The Poetry of Predicament with Susi Moser

In this recent interview on The Poetry of Predicament Podcast, National Council member Susanne Moser shares on the importance of...

Together Apart

National Council member Kathleen Dean Moore offers her reflections on this time of quarantine in conversation with Hank Lentfer, as part...

New Religion and Ecology Site Launched

We are pleased to share that the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology has announced the launch of their new...

Tales of a Polar Photographer

National Council member Camille Seaman documents our fragile polar regions through photography, evoking a sense of our interconnected relationship with...

When the Whales Leave

National Council member Gretel Ehrlich praises Yuri Rytkheu’s novel When the Whales Leave in her eloquent review on Literary Hub. When...

Commonwealth v. Exxon

Core Team member Melissa Hoffer is one of the attorneys representing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in ongoing litigation against Exxon Mobil....

On Trees and Forest Futures

In her work, Edinburgh Council member and socially-engaged artist Reiko Goto contemplates our relationship with the natural world. Collaborating on projects...

Weathering Eco-Anxiety

Psychiatrist Robin Cooper is mobilizing her colleagues in the mental health field to take seriously the human impacts of climate...

x=2140 Exhibition

Artist and Edinburgh Council member Wallace Heim asks: In the coming 120 years, how can humans decide to dismantle, remember...

Coronavirus and Climate Change

In a recent article on YaleEnvironment360, National Council member Elizabeth Sawin offers us insight into the climate lessons we can...

The Uncertain Human Future

This spring, Clark University is hosting The Uncertain Human Future, a participatory exhibit that encourages a deeper examination of the...

The Understor(e)y

National Council member and renowned sculptor, Janet Echelman, is one of four faculty leading a unique course at Princeton University...

Council at Swarthmore College

This fall, the Council on the Uncertain Human Future traveled to Philadelphia for the first Swarthmore College Council. On November...

Spotlight on the Just Growth Circle

As a response to the complex challenges facing urban communities, Climate Interactive and the Atlanta-based Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE)...

Reflections on Thomas Berry: A Biography

On the release of Thomas Berry’s first biography, National Council member Mary Evelyn Tucker met with Orion’s Editor-in-Chief H. Emerson...

Janet Echelman in Shanghai

Council member Janet Echelman’s “1.26” sculpture is a monumental, floating form that pulses with the changing wind and weather and...

Five Practices for Climate Change

Lama Willa Miller, national Council member, offers five practices for these times of immense challenge in the October issue of...

Raising Coral

Oceanographer Joanie Kleypas, a member of the national UHF Council, is the Project Lead on a mission to restore coral...

Orion at 35

Camille Seaman and Kathleen Dean Moore, both members of the National UHF Council, are featured in the new 35th anniversary...

Ecological Civilization in China

In September 2017, Council member and Yale professor Mary Evelyn Tucker spoke at the 2017 Songshan Forum in China: The meeting...

Looking to the larger-than-human world

Writing for the Dark Mountain Project, Edinburgh Council member Wendy Wheeler (back row, far right) offers insights on how the world...

Kathmandu Council convenes in June

The Kathmandu Council on the Uncertain Human Future held its first session on June 2 and 3, 2017 at Shivapuri...

View Camille Seaman’s talk on Standing Rock

On Wednesday, March 22, photographer and national Council member Camille Seaman shared thoughts from her time at Standing Rock, North...

New Council in Kathmandu

A group of women in Kathmandu, Nepal will convene a Council on the Uncertain Human Future in early June 2017, bringing together a group...

Camille Seaman to speak on Standing Rock

Camille Seaman, photographer and national Council member, will speak and share her work at Clark University in a talk At Standing Rock...

Navigating Together

Council member Beth Sawin has launched a new blog, Navigating Together, Systems Thinking for Turbulent Times. On it she offers insightful and...

Journey of the Universe at Ghost Ranch

Mary Evelyn Tucker, member of the national UHF Council, and her husband John Grim will explore the vision of her book Journey...

Visualizing sea-level rise

Susi Moser, member of the national UHF Council, was the lead researcher on a project using viewfinders called OWLs, which showed panoramic...

Joanna Macy on Seeing in the Dark

In a remarkable interview of Joanna Macy by journalist Dahr Jamail, she speaks of our work in these times: What is...

Council filmmaker at Standing Rock

Nara Garber, the filmmaker of our Council film Listening for Signal, has been documenting the community and actions at Standing Rock over...

Third Council at Clark University convenes

The third Council on the Uncertain Human Future held at Clark includes members of both the faculty and staff. It...

Grant from Reynolds Foundation

The Council on the Uncertain Human Future initiative has received a grant from the Christopher Reynolds Foundation. The funding will support reunion gatherings...

Trailer for Listening for Signal, new Council film

Check out the trailer for the new Council film Listening for Signal! Nine national Council members convened for a reunion...