Using ancient Chinese spiritual principles, says Raymond Lo, a feng shui grand master in Hong Kong, “we can establish where is the good energy and where is the bad energy.”

Religious communities are part of a growing movement across America that is concerned with the ethics of how food is grown and how it gets to our tables.

"Every time you eat, you give expression to what you think the world ought to be," says Norman Wirzba, a professor of theology, ecology, and rural life at Duke Divinity School.

Paul Root Wolpe, director of Emory University's Center for Ethics, says ethics should precede our economic and political judgments and our response to events like the Gulf oil spill.

"The issue here is not BP's behavior, it's not the Obama administration's behavior. It's our behavior. That is where the deepest change has to happen."

Catholic Charities set up five relief centers in Louisiana fishing villages to respond to the oil spill catastrophe with financial assistance and spiritual support, says Margaret Dubuisson of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

Renowned essayist, farmer, poet, and conservationist Wendell Berry says the Gulf of Mexico oil spill demonstrates that "we're putting too much at stake" in the way we go after oil and mineral resources.

The natural world teaches birth, death, glory, and transformation, but are students so wired to technology that they have become oblivious to nature's lessons?

Engaged Buddhism means "you must confront social suffering," says Thai scholar and activist Sulak Sivaraksa, "and people suffer now because of the environment."

As global leaders met in Denmark to discuss a deal that would help contain and reverse climate change, young activists came together on the National Mall to build a 60-foot replica of Noah's Ark.