Graduate Theological Union

Graduate Theological Union presents the project, “Science, Technology, and the Environment: Exploring Implications for Science and Religion in the Bay Area and Beyond.” The grant helps raise the visibility of climate change with a focus on the environmental impacts of technology, both in contributing to environmental degradation as well as complementing efforts to mitigate or address the impact in a positive way. For instance, the grant seeks to make visible and intelligible the water, energy, and atmospheric carbon costs of cloud computing, and weigh these with the benefits of planetary data connectivity. The project lead, Dr. Braden Molhoek, is organizing a public forum at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences and lead a partnership with New College Berkeley to bring climate related learning opportunities to congregations. Grant funds also support multiple theology faculty in making course revisions that engage science and technology areas related to climate change.