The Living Earth Community: A Gateway to a Sustainable Future

This Environment editorial presents a conceptual framework for understanding sustainability through the lens of the Living Earth Community, the online knowledge commons created by the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology. The Living Earth Community emphasizes relational and ethical connections between humans and the more-than-human world. The editors emphasize that current environmental policy and scholarship can benefit from rethinking the Earth not as a source of expendable resources, but as a community of interdependent subjects and systems.