Mary Evelyn Tucker, eco-activist, passionate educator and a leading voice in the religion-ecology movement, asserts that the world's religions must re-envision their traditional missions and begin to embrace the state of the planet's ecological—as well as spiritual—well-being. Tucker believes that such a shift in focus, activated across the vast infrastructure of the great religious institutions, would represent an evolutionary change in the consciousness of humanity and would revitalize the role of religion in contemporary culture. In this Voices from the Edge talk recorded in Boston, Tucker articulates her deep faith in religion's capacity to help us successfully meet both the ethical and the ecological challenges we face as the caretakers of Planet Earth. Her optimism is infused with a profound sense of urgency that such a religious-eco movement emerge and begin to directly engage such planetary crises as global warming, overpopulation, and species extinction.

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