Twilight Meditation for World Environment Day

Rothko Chapel 3900 Yupon Street, Houston

"Connecting People to Nature" is the theme nations throughout the world will explore in honor of World Environment Day 2017. Science has confirmed that our connection to Earth is ancient and many of the world’s wisdom traditions have taught that our connection to Earth is sacred. Much of our work in this post-industrial era is to cultivate [...]

Refugees: Local Solutions to a Global Crisis

Baker Hall at Rice University 6100 Main St., Houston

Kelly T. Clements joined the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as deputy high commissioner on July 6, 2015. Clements has been closely involved with refugee and displacement issues throughout her 25-year career. In 2010, Clements began serving as deputy assistant secretary of state at the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration [...]