Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology

2025

Living Earth Community Conversations: Satish Kumar with Mary Evelyn Tucker and Tyler Mark Nelson

In this conversation, Satish Kumar speaks about belonging, reverence, and responsibility in a world alive with intelligences. Satish is a co-founder of Schumacher College in England in 1990 as well as co-editor of the 60 year old Resurgence and Ecologist magazine. As a trailblazer in ecological education, he remains a key figure in expanding ecological awareness of the connections between human and more-than-human wholeness. The discussion moves beyond theory into lived relationship — recognizing members of the Earth community as kin, not resource; wisdom as practice, not abstraction; and ecological care as a moral and spiritual calling. Satish Kumar’s life and work offer a vision of hope rooted in simplicity, nonviolence, and deep listening to the more-than-human world.