Addresses given during the RSE

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and its local Metropolis of Atlanta welcome you here in New Orleans by the great Mississippi River. We welcome you to a Symposium which aims at contributing to the restoration of balance in an area ecologically wounded. Read more...

Welcome Remarks from Vice-President Al Gore delivered by Senator Paul Sarbanes Read more...

This Symposium is in many ways both historical and unique. This river comprises a microcosm of our planet. In its waters, we observe many of the world’s ecological issues. We are humbled in its presence. We have come to listen to its story, to learn from its history. Read more...

His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI writes to His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on the occasion of the Eighth Annual RSE symposium, "I fully agree with Your Holiness that the urgent issues surrounding the care and protection of the environment, while touching important political, economic, technical and scientific questions, nonetheless are essentially of an ethical nature, and the solution to the ecological crisis of our time necessarily calls for a change of heart on the part of our contemporaries..." Read more...