The Real Environmental Crisis: Lessons From the Green Patriarch

07/06/2012 Krista Tippett Earlier this month, His All Holiness Bartholomew, the Patriarch of 300 million Eastern Orthodox Christians, convened a two-day conversation on “environment, ethics and innovation.” We gathered on the tiny, ancient island of Heybeliada off Istanbul, which was once the Patriarch’s Constantinople and before that New Rome. There were scientists there, and activists, and religious thinkers. Greenpeace was represented, and so was Dow Chemical.